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HashiConf US 2019: Terraform and Consul Updates, Multi-* Workflows, and Shared Learning
At the fifth HashiConf US conference, held in Seattle, the HashiCorp founders made several new feature announcements for their Terraform and Consul products. Additional key takeaways from the event included: focus on workflows, not tooling; the software delivery world is becoming multi-cloud/platform/service; and there is still much that developers can learn from operations teams, and vice versa.
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Amazon-Certified Syntiant Neural Decision Processors (NDP) Aim to Bring Alexa to Low-Power Devices
Syntiant NDPs are custom-built chips specialized to run TensorFlow neural networks and can be integrated in many kinds of voice and audio-enabled devices, now including Alexa-enabled devices.
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QCon San Francisco 2019 (Nov 11-15): ML, Stream Processing, Compiled JavaScript, iOS Security & More
QCon San Francisco is back this November! The conference features 18 curated tracks that contain over 120 speakers. Designed for senior software professionals, QCon provides the latest insight into designing and delivering global-scale architectures, operating microservices across a diverse range of platforms, leading teams and building effective culture, & of course, the latest in applied AI/ML.
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Pinterest’s Journey to a Kubernetes Platform
Pinterest software engineers have revealed the custom tools and resources they introduced in the company's adoption of Kubernetes.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of Quantum Ledger Database
On September 10th, Amazon announced the general availability of Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a ledger database based on blockchain technology. As such, QLDB provides a fully managed ledger which can contain multiple tables, implementing an immutable transaction journal, which is cryptographically verifiable, and owned by a centralized trusted authority.
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Change to AWS Lambda Networking Reduces Cold Start Time for VPC Customers
AWS announced changes to how Lambda functions connect to resources in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This change — using pre-created network interfaces instead of network interfaces created for each function execution environment — cuts out a major factor in "cold starts" for serverless functions.
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Addressing Multi-Cloud Automation, HashiCorp Releases Terraform Cloud
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the full release of Terraform Cloud, an open-source SaaS platform for teams to manage their infrastructure-as-code workflows. This orchestration takes place through cloud-agnostic tools that allow teams to improve their productivity through repeatable automation. This announcement follows their May 2019 announcement of Remote State Management.
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Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch
Recently, Amazon announced that customers can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose their containerized applications and microservices environments using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. Cloud Insights is a part of Amazon CloudWatch, a fully-managed monitoring and observability service in AWS targeted for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
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Immer JavaScript Immutable State Management Framework Releases V4
Alec Larson released a few days ago the fourth major iteration of award winner JavaScript library Immer, thereby patching an important edge case. Immer is a JavaScript package which allows developers to work with immutable state as it was mutable, by implementing a copy-on-write mechanism.
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VMware’s Project Pacific Integrates Kubernetes with vSphere
VMware announced Project Pacific, a re-architected version of vSphere, which embeds the Kubernetes control plane inside it. It aims to provide uniform management of containers and virtual machines in vSphere installations.
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Eclipse Foundation Proposes Vulnerability Assessment Tool
The Eclipse Foundation is evaluating a proposal to incorporate a Vulnerability Assessment Tool that would help identify libraries with known security issues. The possible result would help inform developers when their application faces a downstream risk from using vulnerable components.
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Microsoft Web Template Studio: Visual Studio Code Extension for Simplifying Web App Creation
Last month, Microsoft announced a new version of Web Template Studio, a cross-platform extension for Visual Studio Code aimed at simplifying the creation of new web applications. The extension uses "wizards" to assist the developer in the creation of boilerplate code for full-stack web applications, and it includes support for existing frontend and backend frameworks.
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Exploring the Motivations for the Inaugural Open Core Summit: Q&A with Founder Joseph Jacks
The inaugural Open Core Summit will be running September 19-20th in San Francisco. InfoQ recently sat down with the founder of the event, Joseph Jacks, and explored his motivations for running this event and discussed why he believes new open source businesses should focus on creating the maximum level of value possible, but aim to capture only a small amount of that value.
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ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: James Gosling's Journey to Open Source
At the recent ApacheCon North America 2019 in Las Vegas, James Gosling delivered a keynote talk on his personal journey to open-source. Gosling's Key takeaways were: open source allows programmers to learn by reading source code, developers must attention to intellectual property rights to prevent abuse, and projects can take on a life of their own.
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20 Years of the Apache Software Foundation: ApacheCon 2019 Opening Keynote
At the recent ApacheCon North America 2019 in Las Vegas, the opening keynote session celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation, with key themes being: the history of the ASF, a strong commitment to community and collaboration, and efforts to increase contributions from the public. The session also featured a talk by astrophysicist David Brin on the potential dangers of AI.