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What is so Special about Microservices? An Interview with Mark Little
Mark Little discusses the anatomy of microservices, how they can be used, and why you may want to temper your enthusiasm to get them to production.
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Project Myriad: Mesos and YARN Working Together
An article by Jin Scott - A tale of two clusters: Mesos and YARN – describes hardware silos created by using different resource managers on different hardware clusters, most popular being Mesos and Yarn and introduces Myriad – a solution allowing to run a YARN cluster on Mesos.
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AWS Release Example EC2 Container Service Scheduler Driver for Mesos
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have released an open source proof of concept scheduler driver that demonstrated how the Apache Mesos cluster manager could be integrated with the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) preview.
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Config Management Camp: BOSH, CoreOS and Kubernetes
Andrew Clay Shafer, senior director of technology at Pivotal, presented at Config Management Camp on BOSH, the project used to deploy Cloud Foundry PaaS, while Kelsey Hightower, developer advocate at CoreOS, talked about CoreOS and Kubernetes, the open source project started by Google to manage a cluster of Linux containers.
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Amazon CloudWatch Supports JSON Logs and Integrates AWS CloudTrail
Shortly after releasing the AWS CloudTrail Processing Library (CPL), Amazon Web Services has also integrated AWS CloudTrail with Amazon CloudWatch Logs to enable alarms and respective "notifications from CloudWatch, triggered by specific API activity captured by CloudTrail". The implied support for monitoring JSON-formatted logs has recently been officially released as well.
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Config Management Camp Panel: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure as Code
The Config Management Camp featured a panel with Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp and creator of Terraform, Gareth Rushgrove, senior software engineer at Puppet Labs, and John Keiser, development lead at Chef, discussing creation of infrastructure from code and cloud resources and APIs.
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Step by Step Improvement Needs Relative Safety
At the OOP 2015 conference Colin Hood talked about bridging the gap between requirements engineering process definition and successful iterative roll-out. He presented how the introduction of improvements to requirements engineering can be done better when done step by step, and how relative safety is needed to enable people to take the steps.
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21st Century Software Delivery with Jez Humble
Jez Humble has stated that current software delivery practices are not optimised to create valuable software, and three issues must be addressed in order to enable innovation. First, the traditional project model is unsuitable. Second, the entire organisational value stream must be addressed. Third, the problems are rooted in process and culture, not organisational structure or tooling.
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Apache Hive 1.0 Released, HiveServer2 Becomes Main Engine, Stable API Defined
Apache Hive has released version 1.0 of their project on February 6th, 2015. Originally planned as version 0.14.1, the community voted to change the version numbering to 1.0.0 to reflect the amount of maturity the project has reached.
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Cloud Foundry Foundation is Born and Gets a New Lead
Cloud Foundry Foundation that was formed recently to advance an open source PaaS gets a new lead, Sam Ramji as the CEO. InfoQ talks to James Watters, VP for Product at Pivotal, Christopher Ferris, CTO Open Cloud at IBM and Dr. Nic Williams, CEO of Stark and Wayne.
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Config Management Camp: Beyond Configuration Management
Mitchell Hashimoto, founder of HashiCorp and creator of Vagrant, presented the first Config Management Camp keynote, describing the status of the datacenter in the past and today, the existing problems and outlining solutions, such as distributed systems, failure tolerance or usage of containers.
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Google Dumps SPDY after HTTP/2 Enters "Last Call"
Google has announced giving up SPDY after HTTP/2.0 has integrated the protocol and its standardization is in its final stages.
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FOSDEM Virtualization: Docker Integration in oVirt and Live Migration of Containers with CRIU
Federico Simoncelli, principal software engineer in the virtualization department at Red Hat, explained the integration status between oVirt, Docker containers and Kubernetes, and Andrey Vagin, software engineer at Parallels, covered the work done in the CRIU project to enable live migration of containers, at the virtualization developer room at FOSDEM.
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Going Beyond Agility with Antifragility
Antifragility emphasizes embracing chaos or randomness through adapting and evolving. It can help enterprises to be more able to deal with and even gain from uncertainty and disorder, making them more flexible and adaptive to events that happen.
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CoreOS Release Rocket and App Container Specification v0.3.1.
CoreOS have released v0.3.1. of the Rocket container runtime and associated App Container (appc) specification, which includes new user-facing features and several important implementation changes that contribute to the stated goals of security and composability.