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Initial Implementation of Module System Pushed to JDK 9 build 111
Project Jigsaw has been in the works for a while now. On March 22nd 2016, an initial implementation of 'Module System' which is the last major component of Project Jigsaw, was pushed to JDK 9 in early access build 111.
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“Monkeys in Labs Coats”: Applied Failure Testing Research at Netflix
At QCon London 2016 Peter Alvaro and Kolton Andrus shared lessons learned from a fruitful collaboration between academia and industry, which ultimately resulted in the creation of a novel method for automating failure injection testing at Netflix. Core learnings included: work backwards from what you know; meet in the middle; and adapt the theory to the reality.
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AWS Launches Relational Database Migration Service
After a brief beta period that saw customers migrate more than 1,000 on-premises databases to the cloud, AWS formally released their Database Migration Service. This on-demand cloud service supports live migration scenarios, and customers who wish to switch their database platform as part of the migration can do so, thanks to a free schema conversion tool.
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JHipster 3.0 Released with Microservices Support
The JHipster team has released JHipster 3.0 with new support for microservices, and with new options to generate a complete microservices architecture.
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DevOps Dashboard Hygieia Aggregates End-to-End View of the Delivery Pipeline
Version 2.0 of open source project Hygieia adds support for multiple teams and a corresponding consolidated view into a program-level dashboard, a Jenkins output publisher and a GitHub Webhook consumer. Hygieia integrates story tracking, repository, build, quality, deploy and monitoring tool widgets on a single-pane-of-glass HTML client that enables an easy access to important DevOps metrics.
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Does Running Java on Docker Containers Violate Agreements?
In a recent blog post Henn Idan raised an issue that using Oracle Java in containers could be violating the Oracle licensing agreements. Is this an issue, or is it something that developers should be concerned about? InfoQ investigates.
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Joyent’s Container Name Service Eases Service Discovery
Joyent's Triton Container Name Service is a free, automated DNS service which makes it easier for clients to locate services.
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Google Maglev: A Load Balancer on Commodity Servers
A group of engineers from Google, UCLA, and SpaceX are presenting the paper "Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer" at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '16) taking place this week. Maglev is Google’s network load balancer.
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Chaos Testing of Microservices
The world is naturally chaotic, and we should both plan for and test that our systems can handle this chaos, Rachel Reese claimed at the recent QCon London conference describing how Jet, an e-commerce company launched in July 2015, work with microservices and chaos engineering.
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Bootable Apps for Immutable Infrastructure and Security
Axel Fontaine on the "Bootable App" pattern, a bare bones machine image for deploying immutable infrastructure to the cloud. This minimal image covers all layers of the stack, including OS kernel, libraries and runtime environment but still has a small footprint, reducing both image upload time and storage costs while also significantly reducing the attack surface on running instances.
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Bare Metal Containers Made Easier with Mayu and Yochu
Giant Swarm open-sources Mayu and Yochu, tools that aim to make it easier to provision CoreOS clusters on bare metal.
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jDays 2016 Round-Up
On 8th and 9th March, the jDays Conference was hosted in Gothenburg, Sweden, followed by an additional day of optional workshops. Currently in its third edition, jDays congregated forty speakers from several different countries, who covered a varied range of topics with a special emphasis in the Java language, methodologies and practices, and front-end technologies.
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New ChatOps Platform with Enterprise Features
Operable.io announced Cog, a ChatOps platform that provides fine-grained access control, UNIX-like pipelining of commands and audit logging features.
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Continuous Delivery for (Smart) Trucks
Peter Thorngren, from Volvo Trucks, explains how the future world of smart trucks and autonomous transportation systems rely deeply on continuous delivery techniques like virtualization, test automation and continuous integration.
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Eclipse Foundation Releases Next-Generation IDE, Eclipse Che 4.0
Today, the Eclipse Foundation announced the first release of the Eclipse Che next-generation web-based IDE. Read on to find out what it contains.