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Rancher Labs Discuss the Adoption of Kubernetes "Everywhere"
In a recent podcast, Shannon Williams, co-founder and president at Rancher Labs, and Darren Shepherd, co-founder and CTO at Rancher Labs, sat down with InfoQ and discussed the adoption of hybrid cloud across organisations. Additional topics covered included: the evolution of Kubernetes as a key abstraction for portability and cross-cloud security and running thousands of clusters at the edge.
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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud.
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Twitter Hack Was Inside Job
Yesterday, a number of tweets were posted from a number of high profile accounts advertising a 2-for-1 scam on Bitcoin. What happened and why? InfoQ investigates.
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C# 9: New `and`, `or`, and `not` Keywords for Pattern Matching
Though it may sound like our occasional April Fools Day joke, C# 9 is looking to add `and`, `or`, and `not` to its list of keywords. Specifically, for use in pattern matching.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon RDS Proxy
Amazon RDS Proxy is a new fully managed, highly available database proxy for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases running on Amazon RDS and Aurora. The service is tailored to serverless architectures and other applications that open and close database connections at a high rate.
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Refactoring Large Haskell Codebases Using Facebook Retrie
Facebook has open-sourced the tool they use to refactor their own Sigma anti-abuse rule engine. Named Retrie, this tool allows developers to describe rewrites as equations in Haskell syntax rather than regular expressions.
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Why Coinbase Is Not Using Kubernetes to Run Their Container Workloads
Coinbase recently wrote about why Kubernetes is not part of their technology stack. Coinbase uses containers, but they run them in VMs. For deployments, they use Odin, its open-source solution for deploying their services in VMs as auto-scaling groups. Adopting Kubernetes adds unnecessary complexity to their current deployment pipeline, and it is not the right tool for them at the moment.
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Hardware Attack Exposes nRF52 Debugger
A hardware bypass enables attackers to restore full debug capabilities in the nRF52 radio chipset, used in many consumer and medical devices. Fault injection re-enables debugging in a way that attacks the silicon, unpatchable in software.
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MSMQ and .NET Core
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is currently not available for .NET Core. While other message queuing systems are generally preferred, many enterprise applications were based on MSMQ and this creates a problem for teams looking to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core or the upcoming .NET 5. But a recent pull request for Reference Source may change the situation.
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Haskell Web Framework IHP Aims to Make Web Development Type-Safe and Easy
Created at digitally induced, the Integrated Haskell Platform aims to be an opinionated framework bringing Haskell type-safety to server side rendering combined with fast development. InfoQ has spoken with digitally induced CEO Marc Scholten.
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Faster, Smaller Vue3 Coming Soon - Evan You, State of the Vuenion 2020
Evan You, creator of Vue.js, recently discussed the Vue 3 release. After more than two years of development, Vue 3 targets a release in Q3 2020. Vue 3 brings a faster renderer, a new composition API, a new template compiler, and server-side rendering support. With TypeScript, and a more modular architecture, Vue 3 strives to be smaller, more maintainable and make it easier to target native.
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Serverless Days 2020 Looks at Future of Serverless Architecture
In a Serverless Days online event on June 18, leaders from the cloud computing industry, including experts from UC Berkeley, serverless.com, TencentCloud and Google Cloud, came together to discuss serverless computing’s latest innovations, use cases, and future directions.
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Google Donates Trademarks to New Foundation
On Wednesday, Google created a new Open Usage Commons Foundation for the purpose of hosting trademarks relating to open source projects under its control; Istio, Angular and Gerrit trademarks were moved over. Not everyone approves of this move, and the benefits are questionable. InfoQ looks behind the story to find out what it means for developers everywhere.
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QCon San Francisco Announces 2020 Tracks
The Program Committee behind QCon San Francisco (Nov 16-18), the software conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leads, announced the tracks for the 2020 edition of the conference.
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Google Announces Its Cloud VMware Engine Is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud VMware Engine. With the release, customers can migrate their existing VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without refactoring or rewriting them.