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Gobblin, LinkedIn's Unified Data Ingestion Platform
At the 2014 QCon San Francisco conference, LinkedIn's Lin Qiao gave a talk on their Gobblin project (also summarized in a blog post) that is a unified data ingestion system for their internal and external data sources.
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Docker Releases Versions 1.4.0 and 1.3.3 with Critical Security Fixes
The Docker project has released version 1.4.0 and 1.3.3 focused on bug fixes and platform stability, and addressing some critical security issues found in previous versions.
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Empowered People Control Their Own Career
Fons Leroy, CEO of VDAB (a public employment service in Belgium), talked about how innovation and co-creation has helped strengthen citizens on the labor market. He explored what VDAB is doing to empower citizens to be in the driver seat of their own career. Organizations can use a similar approach to empower employees and increase organizational agility.
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Plumbr Shifts Focus to Become a JVM Monitoring Solution
Plumbr shift its flagship product from a memory-leak tool to a JVM monitoring solution, adding thread contention detection, inefficient GC behaviour monitoring, and historical JVM data. InfoQ talks with Pritt Potter about this decision.
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SysAdvent: DevOps Yearly Review And a Bit of History
Every December, the SysAdvent community publishes twenty-five articles, one per day until Christmas. The articles touch on a broad set of DevOps topics, ranging from low-level sysadmin tools to people and process issues. SysAdvent 2014 is now underway with twelve articles already published. Each SysAdvent acts like a yearly snapshot, making it possible to follow DevOps history over the years.
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Supersonic Framework Touts Native Performance for Android and iOS Hybrid Apps
AppGyver has announced Supersonic, a new framework to build hybrid mobile apps on Android and iOS that promises to provide "real native performance," says AppGyver, thanks to a novel approach to designing hybrid apps. Supersonic is also integrated with Steroids, an impressive cross-platform IDE for hybrid apps.
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Failure Injection Testing: Controlling Failure in Production
Netflix's Failure Injection Testing bridges the gap between isolated testing and unmitigated chaos testing by controlling the impact of the test. FIT establishes a context which other components of Netflix's production testing and infrastructure systems interpret and adjust the behavior of the system accordingly.
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Bluemix Launches Docker-based IBM Containers Service Beta
IBM's new IBM Containers service lets developers launch Docker containers directly onto the IBM Cloud with Docker-native features and standardised interfaces, including the new Docker orchestration services.
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DigitalOcean Receives $50 Million in Funding
DigitalOcean, a young cloud hosting company based in New York has secured a funding of $50 million.
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Microsoft Azure for Government is Generally Available
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Government, the cloud platform designed exclusively for public sector and federal agencies.
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Cloud Foundry Foundation Forms with 40 Member Companies
Cloud Foundry Foundation is formed to established formal open governance model for the Cloud Foundry open source Platform as a Service (PaaS).
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New Go 1.4 Adds Support for Android, Improves Garbage Collection
Google has announced Go 1.4, coming six months after 1.3. Go 1.4 adds official support for Android native development, albeit still "under heavy development," improved garbage collection, and a minor language change.
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JetBrains Upsource 1.0: A New Code Reviewing Tool
JetBrains has made available Upsource 1.0, a source code collaboration tool for software development teams.
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CocoaPods Hits 1 Millon Downloads
Orta Therox, a core contributor to the CocoaPods project, last week announced that the project has now topped 1 million downloads. This announcement rounds off a year which has seen significant developments in the project and growth in its user base.
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Canonical Launches a Stripped Down Version of Ubuntu for Cloud
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution on the cloud launched a lightweight cloud-optimised version of the OS called Snappy Ubuntu Core.