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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Data Share
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Data Share, which provides capabilities to share data with users in the own organization, as well as with other organizations. Essentially, Microsoft positions the recently announced service as a big data tool, though it’s also possible to share individual files.
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Google Acquires Elastifile to Expand Its Cloud File Storage Offering
Google recently acquired Elastifile, a provider of scalable, enterprise file storage in the cloud. With the acquisition, Google further extends its current file storage offering, Cloud Filestore, and third-party partner offerings.
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Accelerating Cloud Migrations, Microsoft Introduces Azure Migration and Azure Lighthouse Programs
At the recent Inspire partner conference, Microsoft announced the availability of two programs designed to enable partners to deploy and manage cloud installations. Azure Migration includes prescriptive advice, resources and tools for customers to leverage during their migration. Using Azure Lighthouse, customers can delegate governance and monitoring activities to certified partners.
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Is Generally Available, Enhancing Coding Cloud Infrastructure
Recently, Amazin announced the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), an extensible open-source software development framework allowing developers to model and provision their cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.
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Microsoft Releases a New Azure SDK in Preview, Meeting New Azure API Standards
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the releases of their new Azure SDKs for Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Hub, and Key Vault.
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High Scalability Workflow Engine Zeebe is Production Ready
Zeebe is a workflow engine designed to meet the scalability requirements of high-performance applications running on cloud-native and event-driven architectures, and to support workflows that span multiple microservices in low latency, high-throughput scenarios. Zeebe 0.20.0 has just been released as a free community edition and is considered production ready.
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Helidon Supports GraalVM for Native Executable Applications
Shortly after the release of Helidon 1.0, Oracle announced Helidon support for GraalVM that converts Helidon applications to native executable code via the native-image utility. Helidon was designed to be simple and fast, and is comprised of two versions: Helidon SE and Helidon MP. Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, spoke to InfoQ about Helidon support for GraalVM.
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Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs
Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more.
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HAProxy EBtree: Design for a Scheduler, and Use (Almost) Everywhere
At QCON New York 2019, Andjelko Iharos presented how CTO Willy Tarreau and the HAProxy team implemented a scheduler using an EBtree data structure to optimize performance and memory usage of the HAProxy load balancer.
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Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates
Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.
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MicroProfile 3.0: Updated Rest Client + Metrics 2.0 and Health Check 2.0
Eclipse MicroProfile 3.0 was recently released with updates to its Rest Client, Metrics, and Health Check APIs. MicroProfile 3.0 leverages Java EE 8 as its foundation for the development of Java microservices.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available
At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.
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Practical Domain-Driven Design with Events and Microservices - Indu Alagarsamy at QCon New York
Domain-driven design (DDD) concepts like Bounded Contexts and Messaging technologies can be used to build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes. Indu Alagarsamy recently spoke at QCon New York 2019 Conference about using the combination of well-defined bounded contexts and events to develop autonomous microservices that are flexible to adapt to the business changes.
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Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation Join Open-Source Hyperledger Blockchain Project
In a recent press release, Hyperledger, an open-source blockchain and distributed ledger project, announced eight new members have joined their consortium including Microsoft, Salesforce and the Ethereum Foundation. These organizations join established members like Airbus, Cisco, IBM and Intel.