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Improving Capacity Management in Kubernetes Clusters: Q&A with Mohamed Ahmed
InfoQ recently spoke with Mohamed Ahmed, the co-founder and CEO of Magalix, a Kubernetes optimization company, to discuss the critical discipline of capacity management across cloud-native infrastructure and applications.
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AWS CloudWatch Adds Observability Tool for Visualizing Distributed Applications
AWS released ServiceLens, a fully managed observability solution built within CloudWatch. ServiceLens is designed to visualize and analyze the health, performance, and availability of distributed applications. Currently it is available in all commercial regions but requires the usage of AWS X-Ray.
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Google Introduces E2 Family of VMs in Beta for Google Compute Engine
In a recent blog post, Google announced its new E2 family of general-purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine are available in beta. With E2, Google aims to provide customers with flexible, performance-driven, and cost-effective VMs for Google Compute Engine on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Scaling Tech to Keep Building the Right Product During Hyper-Growth
When your organization is growing fast and steadily, change has to be part of your culture. People are recruited, people leave, and people change teams; you have to learn to adapt fast and keep tech and business synchronized. At FlowCon France 2019 Nicholas Suter and Nicolas Nallet spoke about scaling tech at Younited.
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Decision Strategies for a Micro Frontends Architecture
Micro frontends is an architectural style for frontend applications based on the concepts of microservices. Luca Mezzalira believes this is a style that will change the future of these applications. There are some challenges though and architectural decisions that must be made, and he has therefore created a decisions process for embracing a micro frontends architecture.
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ESLint 6.7.0 Released
ESLint, a powerful JavaScript linting tool, recently released version 6.7.0. This release provides developers with a new Suggestions API to apply manual linting suggestions and a new ignorePatterns configuration property to better control the files ESLint ignores.
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Can We Build Trustable Hardware? Andrew Huang at 36C3
Andrew “bunnie” Huang recently presented at 36C3 on ‘Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware’ with an accompanying blog post ‘Can We Build Trustable Hardware?’ His central point is that Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use is very different for hardware versus software, and so open source is less helpful in mitigating the array of potential attacks in the threat model.
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Azure Functions 3.0 Released to Production, Support for .NET Core 3.1 and Node 12 Included
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available in production. The new capabilities in this release include support for .NET Core 3.1 and Node 12. In addition, Microsoft claims previous versions of Azure Functions should be able to run in the version 3.0 runtime without code changes, due to Azure Functions 3.0 being highly backwards compatible.
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Solandra, a TypeScript-First Algorithmic Art Framework
Solandra is an open-source TypeScript-first framework for creating algorithmic art. Leveraging HTML Canvas, Solandra provides a rapid development framework for creating art.
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ServiceMeshCon 2019: Platform Plumbing, Debugging, and Custom Implementations
The inaugural CNCF-hosted ServiceMeshCon 2019 took place during November as part of KubeCon. A core message from the event was that service mesh technology is rapidly becoming part of the platform “plumbing”, and therefore the interesting innovation is happening in relation to the higher-level abstractions and the human-focused control planes.
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Scaling Infrastructure as Code at Challenger Bank N26
To launch their banking platform globally in the US, Brazil, and beyond, the challenges bank N26 introduced a new layer for the configuration of regions in their architecture, where product development teams can add application needs. At FlowCon France, Kat Liu presented why and how they introduced this layer, the benefits that it brings, and the things they learned.
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Dynein – an Asynchronous Background Job Service from Airbnb
At Airbnb, they move time consuming, resource intensive tasks over to asynchronous background jobs to improve scalability. The job scheduling system has become a very important component and they have therefore built Dynein, a distributed delayed job queueing service and scheduler. In a blog post, Andy Fang from Airbnb describes the background and challenges in designing and building the service.
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CSS Architecture for Component-Based Applications
CSS architecture is a complex subject that is often overlooked by developers as it's now possible to encapsulate the CSS per component and avoid many of the pitfalls. While this 'workaround' can make the lives of developers simpler, it does so at the price of reusability and extendibility.
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Apple Open Sources ServiceTalk to the Java Community
Apple has open-sourced ServiceTalk, a JVM network application framework that provides a common and extensible networking abstraction built on top of Netty. ServiceTalk was conceived to improve low-level abstractions provided by Netty such as threading and usability. The goal of open-sourcing ServiceTalk was to provide building blocks that would enable contributions from the Java community.
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JakartaOne 2019: Livestream 7pm to 1am Summary
The JakartaOne Livestream global virtual conference was held on September 10th, 2019, with 19 one-hour sessions. It provided insights into the current state and the future of Jakarta EE and MicroProfile technologies, focused on cloud native Java development. The sessions included keynotes, demos, panel discussions, and upcoming specifications delivered by an all-star cast of Java luminaries.