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Microsoft and Jenkins Partner to Run Project Infrastructure on Azure
Jenkins recently announced a partnership with Microsoft to run its project infrastructure on Azure. Moving to Azure will enable elastic workloads as well as additional resources for Jenkins services.
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AWS Launches Massive X1 Instances Targeting High Memory Workloads
AWS recently added a new instance type with nearly 2 terabytes of memory and 128 virtual CPUs. This is the largest virtual server available today in the public cloud, and is a target for memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA.
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NOLOCK is Broken in SQL Server 2014 SP1
The NOLOCK directive was broken in Cumulative Update #6 for SQL Server 2014 SP1. As a result, databases that relied on that directive may experience unexpected blocking and/or deadlocks.
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The Next Phase in DevOps
The next phase of DevOps will involve collaboration between engineering and non-engineering teams.
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Major CoreOS Linux Alpha Vulnerability Patched
A major vulnerability in CoreOS Linux Alpha has been patched, with the security team saying the issue was limited to versions 104x.0.0 of the Linux distribution. Principal security engineer for CoreOs, Matthew Garrett, said users needed to be confident that CoreOS were not "shipping alpha releases with gaping security issues, it is a big deal when we fail in that respect."
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Agile is Dead – Again
Matthew (Ford) Kern and Miko have both recently written posts on the topic "Agile is Dead". Matthew relates it to the saturation of agile consulting and the speed of hype cycles. Miko links it to a need to go faster than the approaches embodied in the agile movement and replace agile with DevOps.
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Apprenda Offers Commercial Distribution of Kubernetes and Enterprise Support
Apprenda have announced the offering of a commercial Kubernetes distribution alongside enterprise support subscriptions for running Kubernetes in production. These two offerings have been added to Apprenda’s PaaS portfolio primarily via the acquisition of Kismatic Inc, a company that specialises in the deployment and management of Kubernetes within enterprise organisations.
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Supergiant.io - Container Platform for Stateful Applications
Supergiant is a container hosting platform built using Kubernetes for distributed, stateful applications.
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3 weeks until QCon New York: New Talks, Podcasts, & Workshops
Marking its 5th anniversary, QCon New York returns June 13-15. This is QCon New York’s last year holding the event in Brooklyn. Next year, QCon moves to a new venue in Manhattan.
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Searching for the Right Abstraction in a Microservice Platform. Q&A with VAMP creator Olaf Molenveld
Magnetic.io are creating a new open source microservice deployment platform named VAMP, or Very Awesome Microservices Platform, which offers a ‘platform-agnostic microservices DSL’ for deployment, A/B testing, canary releasing, autoscaling, and an integrated metrics and event engine. InfoQ recently sat down with Olaf Molenveld, CEO and co-founder of magnetic.io, the company building VAMP.
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A Easier Way to Repair the .NET Framework
Having a working set of the .NET Frameworks is important for nearly all Windows users, and developers are no exception. In spite of (or perhaps due to) its critical importance, it is easy to have these frameworks degrade into a non-functional state. Microsoft has updated their tool which makes repairs of these frameworks much easier.
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Oracle to Close Java.net and Kenai.com Forges
Oracle has announced that the Kenai.com and Java.net forges will be closed in approximately one year; project administrators have been advised to request all their project data so they can continue to operate elsewhere. The move seems to be aligned to other similar decisions in the market, after sites like Codehaus and Google Code also announced previous closures.
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Docker Security Scanning
Docker Inc have announced general availability of Docker Security Scanning, which was previously known as Project Nautilus. The release comes alongside an update to the CIS Docker Security Benchmark to bring it in line with Docker 1.11.0, and an updated Docker Bench tool for checking that host and daemon configuration match security benchmark recommendations.