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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.
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Building Scalable and Reliable IoT Apps with MQTT and HiveMQ 4
HiveMQ is an MQTT-based messaging platform designed to power IoT applications. Recently released HiveMQ 4 adds support for MQTT 5, improves its extension system, and integrates better with Docker and Kubernetes, and AWS EC2. InfoQ has spoken with Dominik Obermaier, CTO of dc-square GmbH, maker of HiveMQ.
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Epoc.js: Open Source JavaScript Brain-Sensor Controller Software
The recent transition from science fiction to reality for the Brain Machine Interface, coupled with Atwood's Law, "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript," had led to Epoc.js, an open source control software for the Emotiv line of brain sensors.
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Simplifying Blockchain Security Using Hyperledger Ursa
In a recent blog post, the Hyperledger project announced that their latest project, Hyperledger Ursa, has been accepted by the Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Ursa’s primary objective is to simplify and consolidate cryptographic libraries in a trusted, consumable manner for use in distributed ledger technology projects in an interoperable way.
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ScyllaDB Announces Major Release of Its NoSQL Database and Support for Concurrent OLTP and OLAP
At their annual Scylla Summit conference, ScyllaDB released version 3.0 of their flagship product, ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0. New features include: concurrent OLTP and OLAP; materialized views; secondary indexes; and compatibility with the Cassandra 3.x file format. Dor Laor, CEO at ScyllaDB, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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DockerCon EU 2018 Summary: Migration Tooling, Docker Desktop Enterprise and More
At DockerCon Europe 2018, core announcements included the preview of container-based migration tooling for .NET and Java applications, support for digital transformation efforts and technology integration projects, the launch of Docker Desktop Enterprise, the open sourcing of Docker Compose on Kubernetes, and the announcement of the CNAB specification in collaboration with Microsoft.
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Microsoft Announces New Features and Integrations for Azure Pipelines
At the recent Connect() event, Microsoft announced several new features and integrations with Azure Pipelines. The new features and integrations include an Azure Pipelines extension for Visual Studio Code, management of GitHub Releases, support for IoT projects, and ServiceNow integration.