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The AWS Well-Architected Framework
Amazon has published the AWS Well-Architected Framework, a guide for architecting solutions for AWS, with design principles that apply to systems running on AWS or other clouds.
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Force12.io Create a ‘Microscaling’ Framework for Apache Mesos
Force12.io have released a prototype ‘microscaling’ container demonstration running on the Apache Mesos cluster manager, which they claim starts and stops ‘priority 1’ and ‘priority 2’ containers more rapidly than traditional autoscaling approaches when given a simulated demand for the differing workloads. InfoQ discussed the goals and methodology of this approach with Force12.io’s Ross Fairbanks.
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Netflix’ Principles of Chaos Engineering
Based on their experience with arbitrarily shutting down servers or simulating the shutdown of an entire data center in production, Netflix has proposed a number of principles of chaos engineering.
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Project Calico v1.0 'Layer 3' Virtualised Networking Solution Released
Project Calico have released Calico v1.0, a virtualised layer 3 networking solution for VM and container workloads, which enables flexible, scalable and secure IP-based communication without the need for an overlay network. The release includes integration with the OpenStack 'Neutron' networking stack, and ‘proof of concept level’ integrations with Docker, Kubernetes and other related technology.
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Q&A with Bryan Cantrill: Running Containers on Bare Metal with Triton
InfoQ recently sat down with Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, and asked about his thoughts on container technology, running Docker on bare metal, and how Joyent is driving technical innovation within this space through the development of their Triton platform.
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Study: Developers Make Most Money out of Cloud
VisionMobile has published the Developer Economics: State of the Developer Nation Q3 2015 survey, observing that most developers are male and young, Windows leads on the desktop followed by the browser, developers like to keep their code in private clouds and they make most of the money from cloud services.
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New Amazon DynamoDB Streams Enable Triggers, Cross-Region Replication
AWS updated DynamoDB with the ability to publish near real-time notifications of data changes. This new capability – called DynamoDB Streams – spawned two additional features for the NoSQL database-as-a-service: DynamoDB Triggers fire based on specific data changes found in a DynamoDB Stream, and cross-region replication is driven by a DynamoDB Streams-based architecture.
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IBM to Open Source 50 Projects
IBM has announced a new web portal called developerWorks Open, bringing together various projects they are open sourcing. The projects cover many domains including Analytics, Cloud, IoT, Mobile, Security, Social, Watson and others. So far, IBM has open sourced about 30 projects, and they plan to increase the number up to 50 by the end of the year, and others may come in the future.
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Kubernetes v1 Released, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation Formed
Google have released Kubernetes v1, a production-ready version of the open source container orchestration system. The Linux Foundation, in combination with multiple industry partners, have also announced the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building cloud and container native applications.
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Kubernetes Codebase Tagged v1.0.0. in Preparation for Public Release
The codebase for Google’s Kubernetes open source orchestration system for Docker containers has been tagged v1.0.0 ready for the initial ‘general availability’ public release of the platform at OSCON next week on 21st July.
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Amazon Release API Gateway, a Managed Service to Build and Run APIs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have released Amazon API Gateway, a fully managed service that allows developers to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs ‘at any scale’. The AWS management web portal allows an API to be created that can act as a ‘front door’ for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from backend services, such as applications running on EC2 or AWS Lambda.
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HashiCorp Publicly Release Atlas, a Version Control System for Infrastructure
HashiCorp have publicly released Atlas, a commercial platform that unites their open source tools for development and operations to create a version control system for infrastructure management. Atlas integrates HashiCorp’s Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and Consul tooling, with the primary goal of promoting ‘automation, audit and collaboration on infrastructure changes’ across the modern datacenter.
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Flocker v1.0 Provides Docker Volume Migration and Storage Abstraction
At the London Microservice User Group July meetup, Kai Davenport presented a live demonstration of ClusterHQ’s Flocker v1.0 container data volume manager tool migrating a Docker storage volume between multiple containers running within a Docker Swarm.
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Docker 1.7 and Updated Toolchain Released at DockerCon 2015
Docker Inc, have released a new version of their core container runtime, Docker Engine 1.7.0, and updated versions of the supporting toolchain, Docker Compose 1.3, Docker Swarm 0.3 and Docker Machine 0.3. Highlights include the availability of a nightly built ‘Docker experimental binary’ that currently contains a new networking and plugin system, and Apache Mesos integration with Docker Swarm.
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Google Cloud Projects Are Stored on Git
Google is integrating projects deployed and running on their cloud infrastructure with a Git-based repository called Cloud Source Repository.