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Microservices Resiliency and Fault Tolerance Using Istio and Kubernetes
Animesh Singh and Tommy Li from IBM spoke at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference about the microservices resiliency and fault tolerance leveraging Istio framework. They also showed how to configure and use circuit breakers and other resiliency features using Istio.
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PCF 2.0 Expands Platform to Include Containers and Serverless
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) version 2.0 sees a significant expansion of the platform. As well as the original Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, PCF 2.0 now also includes a Kubernetes-based container service and an upcoming Function/Serverless service alongside a marketplace of add-on services that extend the capabilities of the platform.
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Handy Improvements in JPA 2.2
Oracle has released version 2.2 of the Java Persistence standard (JPA). This release updates Java EE 8 to use all the benefits of Java 8.
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DevOps Workbench Launched by ZeroStack
Private cloud provider, ZeroStack, has announced a self-service capability from which developers can create their own workbenches. Forty developer tools from a mix of open source and commercial providers are available to users of the DevOps Workbench through Zerostack’s Intelligent Cloud Platform.
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Buoyant Releases New Kubernetes Service Mesh "Conduit" Written in Rust and Golang
Buoyant, the company behind the JVM-powered Linkerd service mesh, has released “Conduit”, a new experimental Kubernetes-specific service mesh, with the proxy data plane written in Rust and the control plane written in Golang. Conduit is not Linkerd 2.0. -- and targets a different use case -- and Buoyant has stated that they will continue to develop and provide commercial support for Linkerd.
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HashiCorp and Contino Share Enterprise Terraform Recommended Practices
HashiCorp has published a Terraform Recommend Practices guide to assist enterprises looking to embrace cloud technologies and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). An overflow of a typical recommended Terraform workflow is provided, and a “provisioning maturity model” is presented, which also provides advice on how to evolve current practices from one stage to the next.
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Google Introduces Low-Priced Preemptible GPUs for Their Customers
Google announces the beta release of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) attached to Preemptible Virtual Machines (VMs) in their cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers can now attach NVIDIA K80 and NVIDIA P100 GPUs to Preemptible VMs for respectively 0.22 and 0.73 dollar cent per GPU hour, 50 percent cheaper than GPUs connected to on-demand instances.
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restQL, a Microservices Query Language, Released on GitHub
restQL, a query language for microservices, is now available as an open-source project on GitHub. The restQL language is intended to simplify common scenarios for client-side access to RESTful microservices, including multiple parallel calls and chained calls. restQL was created to avoid some limitations of the more well-known data querying and management frameworks Falcor and GraphQL.
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Hazelcast Joins the Eclipse Foundation
Hazelcast, a provider in open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG), recently joined the Eclipse Foundation to work with the other members of the Eclipse community to mainly focus on JCache, Eclipse MicroProfile, and EE4J. Greg Luck, CEO at Hazelcast, spoke to InfoQ about Hazelcast joining the Eclipse Foundation.
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Visual Studio Code Announces JUnit Support
The team at Microsoft which supports Visual Studio Code (better known as VS Code) has announced the release of an extension to run and debug Java JUnit test cases. The extension works with the Java Language Support extension provided by Red Hat and the Debugger for Java to complete the end-to-end development experience for developers working in the Java language in the editor.
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Modern Big Data Pipelines over Kubernetes
Container management technologies like Kubernetes make it possible to implement modern big data pipelines. Eliran Bivas, senior big data architect at Iguazio, spoke at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference about big data pipelines and how Kubernetes can help develop them.
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Facebook Open-Sources RacerD - Java Race Condition Detector
Facebook’s open-source static analysis tool, Infer, now ships with support for detecting race conditions in Java code via RacerD.
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Oracle Announces New Java Champions
Oracle has published a roundup of all new Java Champions accepted in 2017.
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A Deeper Dive into Spectre and Meltdown
A deeper look at Spectre/Meltdown characteristics and potential attacks, why it's necessary to patch cloud VMs even though the cloud service providers have already applied patches, the nature of the performance impact and how it’s affecting real world applications, the need for threat modelling, the role of anti virus, how hardware is affected, and what’s likely to change in the long term.
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Kubernetes and OpenShift Q&A with Brian Gracely from Kubecon 2017
InfoQ caught up with Brian Gracely, director product strategy for Red Hat Openshift, about how Kubernetes has helped shape the product direction and how it's relevant to developers and architects.