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ThoughtWorks Radar July 2014: Trends in JavaScript, Microservices, Conway’s Law and Decentralization
ThoughtWorks has recently published their Technology Radar July 2014 (PDF) noticing important trends in the JavaScript ecosystem, microservices, Conway’s Lay and infrastructure decentralization.
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Docker Gets Ignore, Auto-Pauses Containers On Commit
Docker 1.1.0 was recently released, within a month of the 1.0 release, with several features such as .dockerignore, pausing of containers when a commit is made to them, tailing logs and several other improvements.
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Google's Study Provides Insights into Programmers' Build Errors
Google engineers have recently published a research paper presenting an empirical study of 26.6 million builds produced during a period of nine months by thousands of developers at Google. The paper describes the build workflow, and analyzes failure frequency, compiler error types, and resolution efforts. Such a study, its authors say, can help improve the build process and support to developers.
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Top Docker Misconceptions
Based on his experience as a system administrator evaluating Docker, Matt Jaynes has written at the DevOps University website about the top Docker misconceptions, warning about adopting Docker at small scale and without solid infrastructure foundations, and providing alternatives to improve the deployment process.
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New Low End T2 Instances for Amazon EC2
Amazon have introduced T2, a new class of low cost general purpose instances for EC2 intended for workloads that don’t drive consistently high CPU usage. At the low end t2.micro offers higher performance, more memory (1GiB) and a lower cost (1.3¢/hr) than the previous t1.micro. The T2 class also offers small and medium sizing with 2GiB and 4GiB RAM respectively.
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QCon San Francisco Update (Nov 3-7, 2014): Tracks Announced, Registrations Up 875%
Track topics have been finalized for the 8th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 3-5, 2014). Registrations for the event - which has been completely sold out for the past three years - are up 875% compared to the same time last year. Register before Jul 26th and save $700.
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Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto on Vagrant Cloud End of Beta
HashiCorp has released Vagrant Cloud to the public. Vagrant Cloud enables developers to share their locally running Vagrant instances remotely. Additionally Vagrant Cloud is a central place for storing and discovering Vagrant Boxes. With the new Organizations feature, Vagrant Cloud users can limit access to their boxes or shared Vagrant instances with Access Control Lists (ACL).
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Red Hat Releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with Increased Linux Containers Support
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the latest release of the company Linux distribution. This release provides the Docker application as a main management tool for Linux containers
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AWS CloudTrail Expands Auditing of API Calls
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has considerably increased the number of services supported by AWS CloudTrail to cover the majority of the extensive AWS service portfolio. This now includes most compute and networking and all deployment and management services, thereby providing comprehensive end to end auditing of almost any changes to customer’s infrastructure.
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ING Netherlands' Measured Improvements on Transition to DevOps
Jan-Joost Bouwman and Mark Heistek, from ING Retail Banking Netherlands, presented at Devopsdays Amsterdam how a CMMI-ITIL organization transitioned to a more agile mindset. Somewhat unusually in this kind of sessions, ING presented quantitative evidence of the improvements, such as a marked increase in the number of changes deployed to production and a decrease of the risk value per change.
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Hortonworks Acquires XA Secure to Strengthen Security in Enterprise Hadoop
Hortonworks recently acquired the data security company XA Secure to help the organization in providing comprehensive security to Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Security features would be available across all Hadoop workloads from batch, interactive SQL and real–time.
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On Power and Influence
At DevOpsDays Amsterdam, Mark Coleman asserted that all organizational's cultural changes start with one person influencing another. He finds that Charles Handy's writings on power and influence help on understanding how an organizations works and how one can go on to change it. Mark discussed Charles Handy's six sources of power and six methods of influence.
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Waratek Release Early Version of their Application Security
Waratek released an early adopter version of Waratek Application Security for Java, to protect older Java applications from vulnerabilities in legacy Java versions.
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John Willis on the "State Of The Union" for DevOps
John Willis, one of the leading lights of the DevOps community, addressed the "State Of The 'DevOps' Union" at DevOpsDays Amsterdam. He started by mentioning the findings of the 2014 State of DevOps Report, went on to discuss Software Defined Everything and asserted that the future will be built around "consumable composable infrastructure".
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Docker + Apache Brooklyn = Clocker
Clocker, an open source project, enables users to manage and auto-scale Docker containers, in a cloud-agnostic manner. The project is built on top of Apache Brooklyn, a multi-cloud application, management software.