Managing and Operating Kafka Clusters in Kubernetes
Nenad Bogojevic, platform solutions architect at Amadeus, spoke at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference on how to run and manage Kafka clusters in Kubernetes environment. He talked about provisioning Kafka clusters and configuring them using Kubernetes custom resources or ConfigMaps.
Electric Cloud Enhances Platform With Additional Mainframe and Microservices Capabilities
New ElectricFlow DevOps Automation support for mainframe includes native automation capabilities both pre- and post-deployment and pipeline governance and security. A new native microservices model allows microservices to be treated as first-level objects so that they can be modeled independently of applications and environments.
How DevOps Principles Are Being Applied to Networking
Practices from the DevOps world are being adopted into managing networking services. Vendor hardware, configuration tools and deployment modes have eased programmable configuration and automation of network devices and functions.
DevOps Workbench Launched by ZeroStack
Private cloud provider, ZeroStack, has announced a self-service capability from which developers can create their own workbenches. Forty developer tools from a mix of open source and commercial providers are available to users of the DevOps Workbench through Zerostack’s Intelligent Cloud Platform.
Modern Big Data Pipelines over Kubernetes
Container management technologies like Kubernetes make it possible to implement modern big data pipelines. Eliran Bivas, senior big data architect at Iguazio, spoke at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference about big data pipelines and how Kubernetes can help develop them.
Xen Hypervisor 4.10 Focuses on Security and Better ARM Support
The Xen Project released version 4.10 of their hypervisor with an improved architecture for x86, better support for ARM processor hardware updates, and changes to schedulers and the user interface.
Chaos Engineering at Twilio
The Twilio team describes their foray into Chaos Engineering where they use Gremlin to inject failures into their homegrown queuing system shards to test for automated recovery.
Kubernetes 1.9 Supports Workloads API, Container Storage Enhancements and Windows Beta Support
The latest version of the container orchestration framework Kubernetes supports GA version of Workloads API, container storage enhancements and Windows support (beta). The Kubernetes team announced the release of version 1.9 last week. This is the fourth and final release this year, and also supports the Custom Resource Definition (CRD) validation.
What's New in MicroProfile 1.2
The Eclipse Foundation recently released MicroProfile version 1.2. New APIs added to this release include improved communications among microservices, response to system faults, and the JSON Web Toolkit (JWT). Emily Jiang, CDI and MicroProfile development lead at IBM, and Michael Croft, Java middleware consultant at Payara, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
TensorFlow Lite Supports On-Device Conversational Modeling
TensorFlow Lite, the light-weight solution of open source deep learning framework TensorFlow, supports on-device conversation modeling to plugin the conversational intelligence features into chat applications. The TensorFlow team recently announced the release of TensorFlow Lite, which can be used in mobile and embedded devices.
Kubernetes 1.8 Improves Security, Stability and Workloads
The Kubernetes team has released version 1.8, which focuses on improved security and better stability, and has moved the Workloads API to beta. New mature features include role-based access control (RBAC), support for volume mount options, allowing privilege escalation, and support for high-level volume operation metrics.
Leslie Miley on Bias in Big Data/ML and AI - QCon San Francisco
At QCon San Francisco Leslie Miley gave a keynote talk in which he explained how inherent bias in data sets have affected things from the 2016 Presidential race to criminal sentencing in the United States.
Expedia's Journey toward Site Resiliency: Embracing Chaos Testing in Dev and Production at QCon SF
At QCon SF, Sahar Samiei and Willie Wheeler presented “Expedia’s Journey Toward Site Resiliency”, and discussed the building of a community of practice around resilience testing within Expedia. The results have generally been positive: Netflix’s Chaos Monkey has been running daily in production since May 15th; and resilience tests have been added to four Tier 1 service pipelines.
RockScript: An Open Source Scripting Language and Engine for Microservice Orchestration
Tom Baeyens has released a preview of RockScript, an open source scripting language and engine for integrating and orchestrating microservices. RockScript uses a language that looks much like JavaScript, which when executed by the accompanying engine allows the coordination of transactional activities within microservice systems in a similar fashion to Business Process Modelling (BPM).
Confluent Releases KSQL, a Distributed Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka
Confluent released KSQL: interactive, distributed streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL supports stream processing operations like aggregations, joins, windowing, and sessionization on topics in Apache Kafka. Confluent announced the open source streaming SQL engine at the recent Kafka Summit conference.
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