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Java 9 on the Brink of a Delivery Date and Scope Review
Following the passing of the May 2016 deadline for a feature complete Java 9, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform, suggested a method to collectively review all work remaining in unfinished JEPs and decide whether to delay the project further in order to accommodate, or to descope them. Although the process hasn't finished yet, the current state suggests a combination of both.
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QCon San Francisco 2016 Tracks Announced and First Glimpse at Workshops
QCon San Francisco, the 10th annual bay area software conference that attracts attendees from all over the world, returns to the Fishermen's Wharf area of San Francisco November 7-9, 2016.
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Codename One Adds Support for Java Apps to Target the Universal Windows Platform
Codename One, a popular app development environment that allows Java to be used for a variety of platforms, can now also target the Universal Windows Platform. This will allow Java developers to target any device where Windows 10 is installed- whether phone, table or desktop- and raises the number of targetable platforms to eight.
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Microsoft Announces Better Integration of Docker and Azure at DockerCon 2016
At the recently concluded DockerCon 2016 in Seattle, Microsoft announced some features in Azure showcasing improved support for Docker containers in the enterprise. These include the availability of Docker Datacenter in the Azure Marketplace and Docker Datacenter support for managing hybrid container deployments.
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Docker Swarm Is Dead. Long Live Docker Swarm.
At DockerCon, Docker released version 1.12 of the core product, Docker Engine. The biggest new feature is that Docker Swarm is no longer a separate tool - now it's built into Docker Engine, making it easier to combine multiple Docker hosts into a single logical unit for increased scale and reliability.
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Bitbucket Pipelines Provides Continuous Delivery within Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud
Atlassian released Bitbucket Pipelines beta at AtlasCamp 2016 in Barcelona to provide a Continuous Delivery pipeline within Bitbucket Cloud. At the same time, Atlassian announced the end-of-life for their current cloud based CI/CD solution Bamboo Cloud by 31 January 2017, while emphasizing that Bamboo Server continues to be their on-premise CI/CD offering for Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash).
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Q&A with Baruch Sadogursky on the Challenges of Managing Docker Containers Lifecycle
InfoQ interviewed Baruch Sadogursky, developer advocate at JFrog, to better understand some of the challenges in managing the lifecycle of Docker containers, namely controlling and tracking the flow of Docker images from development to production.
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DockerCon 2016: A Summary of Announcements and Key Takeaways
At DockerCon 2016, held in Seattle, the latest 1.12 beta version of Docker Engine was announced that includes the integration of Docker Swarm to provide container orchestration. Additional announcement included: the Docker for Mac and Windows has now been made public; a private beta for Docker for AWS and Azure has been opened; and the release of a 'DAB' file format for packaging artifacts.
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FaaS, PaaS, and the Benefits of the Serverless Architecture
This article discusses what serverless is, comparing it with PaaS and SPaaS, the benefits and costs of a serverless architecture and the need for a framework.
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Cloud Identity Summit Pushes Change in Identity and Security
The theme of the 2016 Cloud Identity Summit (CIS) was r/evolution of enterprise security, using identity as the security perimeter rather than the border of the corporate network. In this story, we look at the keynote messages presented here.
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Five Ways to Not Mess Up Microservices in Production
Alex Zhitnitsky of Takipi has written about five ways to try to improve the chances of successful deployed of microservices into production. As we will see, they share many similarities with other independent efforts, perhaps leading us to agreement on top areas of concern, if not ways of solving these problems.
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LinkedIn Details Production Kafka Debugging and Best Practices
LinkedIn’s Joel Koshy details their Kafka usage, debugging and monitoring two production incidents in using the core Kafka infrastructure concepts, semantics and behavioral patterns to plan for and detect similar problems in the future.
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Kief Morris: Implementing Infrastructure as Code
Moving applications to the cloud has somewhat become commodity in the meantime - not only for big players, but also for smaller companies that rely on flexibility and resource utilization. In his presentation "Implementing Infrastructure as Code", Kief Morris, cloud practice lead at ThoughWorks, shares some key principles and recommendations on how to leverage cloud based infrastructure.
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Exploring Performance Counters with F# WMI Type Provider
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a primary source of data when monitoring Windows systems. Given that the performance counters available vary from machine to machine, a tool is needed to list all counters available. The WMI type provider is one possible option to explore WMI performance counters.
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LinkedIn Details Open-Sourced Kafka Monitor
LinkedIn recently detailed open-sourced Kafka Monitor service that they're using to monitor production Kafka clusters as well as extensive testing automation, leading them to identify bugs in the main Kafka trunk and contribute solutions to the open-source community.