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The Many Faces of Envoy Proxy: Edge Gateway, Service Mesh, and Hybrid Networking Bridge
At the inaugural EnvoyCon in Seattle, USA, engineers from Pinterest, Yelp and Groupon presented their current use cases for the Envoy Proxy. The overarching message was that the Envoy Proxy appears to be moving closer to fulfilling its vision of providing the “universal [proxy] data plane API” for modern networking, including edge gateways, service meshes and hybrid networking bridges.
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Running Envoy as an Edge Proxy at eBay: Replacing Hardware Load Balancers with a Software Solution
At the inaugural EnvoyCon that ran in Seattle, USA, the eBay engineering team talked about running the Envoy Proxy at the edge as a replacement for hardware-based load balancers. Key learnings included that having a “programmable edge” provides many advantages and also several challenges.
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Facebook Open-Sources PyText for Faster Natural Language Processing Development
In a recent blog post, Facebook announced they have open-sourced PyText, a modeling framework, used in natural language processing (NLP) systems. PyText is a library built upon PyTorch and improves the effectiveness of promoting experimentation projects to large-scale production deployments.
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InfoQ Headlines Now Available as Alexa Flash Briefing
InfoQ released an Alexa Flash briefing that tells you the latest tech-news available on InfoQ.com. This flash briefing skill gives you an update on the latest trends in software, and summarizes it in less than two minutes. The skill is available wherever Amazon has English Alexa skills.
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EnvoyCon 2018: The Rise of Envoy Proxy and the xDS APIs, and Square and Alibaba Adoption
The inaugural EnvoyCon ran in Seattle, USA, alongside the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon events, and explored the past, present and future of the Envoy Proxy. Key takeaways from the first part of the day included that the success of Envoy is driven by the community engagement and the technical qualities in regard to performance, extensibility and well-defined management APIs.
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Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of Python Support for Azure Functions
At the recent Connect() event, Microsoft announced the public preview of Python support in Azure Functions. Developers can build functions using Python 3.6, based upon the open-source Functions 2.0 runtime and publish them to a Consumption plan.
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Amazon Introduces AWS Cloud Map: "Service Discovery for Cloud Resources"
In a recent blog post, Amazon introduced a new service called AWS Cloud Map which discovers and tracks cloud resources. With the rise of microservice architectures, it has been increasingly difficult to manage dynamic resources in these architectures. But, using AWS Cloud Map, developers can monitor the health of databases, queues, microservices, and other cloud resources with custom names.
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Deno: Secure V8 TypeScript Runtime from Original Node.js Creator
Deno is a rethink of a server-side JavaScript runtime from original Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, to address regrets and challenges with Node.js.
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GitLab 11.6 Supports Serverless Function Deployment
The latest release of GitLab is able to use Knative and Kubernetes to build, deploy, and manage serverless workloads leveraging the Function as a service (FaaS) model.
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License Changes for Confluent Platform Restricting Cloud Vendor Usage
Confluent has announced changes to the license for some components of their Confluent Platform, a streaming platform which provides capabilities to transport data, and tools to connect systems and data sources. The license changes specifically focus on restricting the usage of these components by SaaS providers.
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Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.1 Adds New Consensus Algorithms and WebAssembly Smart Contracts
After the initial GA release back in February, the Hyperledger project has just released version 1.1 of Sawtooth, which mostly focuses on making it simpler to add new consensus algorithms and brings WebAssembly smart contracts.
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Inside Stack Overflow’s Monitoring Systems
Nick Craver, architecture lead at Stack Exchange, wrote about their monitoring systems in a recent article. He discussed the philosophy and motivation behind their monitoring strategy and talked about their toolset - mainly Bosun, Grafana and Opserver.
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Amazon Announces the Availability of AWS Europe Stockholm Region
Public Cloud providers are opening more regions every year. Before the end of 2018, Amazon announced the availability of another new region. This new region is the fifth region in Europe; the official name is Europe (Stockholm), and the API name is eu-north-1.
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Scaling Observability at Uber: Building In-House Solutions, uMonitor and Neris
Uber’s infrastructure consists of thousands of microservices supporting mobile applications, infrastructure, and internal services. To provide high observability of these services, Uber’s Observability team built two in-house monitoring solutions: uMonitor for time-series metrics-based alerting, and Neris for host-level checks and metrics.
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DigitalOcean Launches Managed Kubernetes Service
Cloud provider DigitalOcean recently opened up access to their new Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering. This fully-managed service is now available in every DigitalOcean region.