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Eric Evans Says Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Isn't Done
During his keynote at Explore DDD, Eric Evans said "DDD isn't done." Over the past fifteen years since Domain-Driven Design was published, DDD hasn't stood still, and there is still much to do to keep DDD evolving.
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Microsoft Pushes New Azure Offerings into the High-Performance Computing Market
Microsoft is entering the high-performance computing (HPC) market with their announcement of the general availability of Azure CycleCloud, a tool for creating, managing, operating, and optimizing HPC clusters of any scale in Azure. Furthermore, Microsoft announced it would support NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC).
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Pivotal Releases Spring Cloud Data Version 1.6 Featuring a New App Hosting Tool
Pivotal has released version 1.6 of Spring Cloud Data Flow, a project for building and orchestrating real-time data processing pipelines to runtimes such as the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes and Mesos. New features include an app hosting tool, a scheduler for PCF, and an app repository. Mark Pollack, senior staff engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about this latest release.
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How to Achieve a Resilient Architecture
To manage systems at scale you must push your system almost to the breaking point, but still be able to recover – and embrace failures, Adrian Hornsby writes in two blog posts sharing his experiences from working with large-scale systems for more than a decade, and the patterns he has found useful.
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Jenkins to Focus Efforts on Stability, Ease of Use and Cloud Native Compatibility
The Jenkins project team has decided to split its efforts between focusing on stability issues and on better support for running on platforms like Kubernetes. The former, which will potentially have backward-incompatible changes, will impact the release model and provide a more pre-configured installation, whereas the latter will work on similar lines as the existing Jenkins X project.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure IoT Hub’s Integration with Azure Event Grid
Microsoft announced the general availability of the integration of IoT Hub with Azure Event Grid after a public preview period of six months. With the combination of IoT Hub and Event Grid, customers can enhance the support of device events to automate actions like database updates, ticket creation, and billing management.
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Atlassian Expands the Jira Ecosystem: Bitbucket Integration, OpsGenie, and Jira Ops
Atlassian has announced a series of moves to expand the Jira ecosystems, including better integration between Bitbucket and Jira, acquisition of the OpsGenie company, and the release of an incident management platform called Jira Ops.
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Ionic Announced Ionic Framework 4 Beta
Ionic recently announced a beta release of version 4 of their framework for building mobile applications. Ionic 4 focuses on improvements to performance and a more framework-agnostic approach by focusing on support for the web components standard.
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The Customer is Not Always Right and Neither Are You
At the recent Agile 2018 conference, Natalie Warnert gave a talk titled "The Customer is Not Always Right, and Neither Are You!” in which she gave the audience thought-provoking concepts on how to make sure we are building the right thing. She presented three traps that teams fall into - incorrect customer, premature solution and drowning in data, and provided advice on how to avoid them.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech and Updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text
Google announced the general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech, which allows developers to add natural-sounding speech to their devices or applications. Furthermore, Google also announced updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text by adding a broader set of features and enhancing the availability and reliability.
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Vaughn Vernon: The Reality of Being Cloud-Native and Reactive
Reactive, Streaming and NoSQL are important concepts today and can be very useful, and sometimes considered compulsory for cloud-native applications, but Vaughn Vernon emphasizes in a blog post that not all systems within in a company must use all these concepts to achieve the full benefits of the cloud.
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California Creates Consumer Privacy Act
California has enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 which, starting on January 1, 2020, would grant consumers several rights with respect to information about them that businesses collect, store, sold, and share. This is the first legislation of its kind in the United States.
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Hazelcast Change CEO, Pledge Continued Open-Source Commitments
Hazelcast, makers of open-source developer-focused infrastructure components, including an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and a stream processing engine (Hazelcast Jet), have been through a management change. The incoming CEO, Kelly Herrell (Vyatta), has pledged Hazelcast's continued strong commitment to open source and spoke to InfoQ.
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Eclipse Releases Versions 1.4 and 2.0 of MicroProfile
The Eclipse Foundation recently released versions 1.4 and 2.0 of MicroProfile featuring relevant updates to the APIs, including comprehensive Test Compatibility Kits (TCKs), Maven coordinates, Javadocs, and Git tags. These versions are fully aligned with Java EE 7 and Java EE 8. The synergies between MicroProfile and Jakarta EE have sparked some speculation that the two platforms could merge.
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Q&A with IBM's Lin Sun on Istio 1.0 and Microservices
InfoQ caught up with Lin Sun, a senior technical member at IBM and also a participant in the open source Istio project release team, regarding Istio in general and the 1.0 release in particular.