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FOSDEM Configuration Management: Practices for Infrastructure as Code and Puppet Modules
FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, took place this weekend in Brussels, Belgium, with over 4000 participants. This year the conference had over 40 tracks, both official and developer rooms organized by different communities, dedicated to diverse subjects such as Ruby, virtualization or config management.
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A Service View of Business Driven DevOps
Over the years Steve Jones has had a lot to say about Business SOA. Recently he's turned his attention to DevOps and believes there are some important lessons that DevOps can learn from SOA and Business Architecture.
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Microsoft Uses Cloud Platform System to Run Internal Production Workloads
According to an official blog post, Microsoft’s Cloud Platform System (CPS) is running Microsoft’s internal IaaS private cloud codenamed “Nebula”.
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Amazon EC2 Gains Two-Minute Warning for Spot Instance Termination
Amazon EC2 recently gained two-minute warnings before Spot Instances are reclaimed, a feature "formally known as a Spot Instance Termination Notice". The goal is to "allow more types of applications to benefit from the scale and low price of Spot Instances" by giving them time to save state, upload log files, or deregister from other components such as load balancers or cluster managers.
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Atlas: Netflix's Primary Telemetry Platform
Netflix has open sourced Atlas, part of their next-generation monitoring platform they have been working on since early 2012. The company developed Atlas to store time series data in order to provide near real-time operational insight to teams.
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CoreOS Shipped the First Stable Version of etcd
CoreOS announced the availability of etcd 2.0, the first stable version of the open source distributed key-value store.
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MuleSoft Announces ESB 3.6 and Anypoint Platform for Mobile
MuleSoft has announced this month the release of ESB 3.6 runtime, improvements to Anypoint Studio and the Anypoint Platform for Mobile to support mobile application development.
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Google Adds Private Docker Registry to Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform now has its own private registry to host Docker images. This enables DevOps teams to securely store and retrieve Docker images.
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VMware Will Offer Google Cloud Services and Rackspace Offers vCloud
Cloud vendors are combining their strengths to provide extra services for their customers. The latest developments include VMware offering Google BigQuery and Rackspace building private dedicate vCloud’s.
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JHipster 2.0 Released with AngularJS improvements, Liquibase diffs, and Spring WebSockets
JHipster, the Yeoman generator for Spring Boot/Angular projects, released version 2.0 earlier this month, with some notable changes: 1) the AngularJS code has been modularized, making it easier to use JHipster for larger projects and 2) Liquibase is now able to create "diffs" between the JPA code and the database, making it easier to update your database schema.
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Amazon Adds Managed Email and Calendaring Service to AWS Portfolio
Amazon announced the launch of Amazon WorkMail, a managed business email and calendaring service.
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Mesosphere Release Mesos-DNS Service Discovery for Apache Mesos
Mesosphere have released an alpha version of Mesos-DNS, an open source service discovery framework for cloud environments running applications on the Apache Mesos cluster manager.
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Google Announces General Availability of Local SSD on Compute Engine
Announced at Google I/O in June 2014, Local SSD moved from beta into general availability mode.
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Unity Launches Analytics on iOS and Android
Unity last week announced the launch of Unity Analytics, a service which assists game developers in gaining an understanding into the behaviour of their players. The service is currently in an open beta with support for the iOS and Android platforms only.
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EMRFS Brings Consistency to Amazon S3
Amazon recently announced EMRFS, an implementation of HDFS that allows EMR clusters to use S3 with a stronger consistency model. When enabled, this new feature keeps track of operations performed on S3 and provides list consistency, delete consistency and read-after-write-consistency, for any cluster created with Amazon Machine Image (AMI) version 3.2.1 or greater.