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Splunk Releases Splunk Connected Experiences and Splunk Business Flow
Data analytics organisation, Splunk, recently released Splunk Connected Experiences which delivers insights through augmented reality (AR), mobile devices like Apple TV, and mobile applications. They also released Splunk Business Flow which enables business operations professionals to gain insights across their customer journeys and business processes.
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Bringing VMware Environments to Azure, Microsoft and VMWare Establish Partnership
At the recent Dell Technologies World conference, Microsoft and VMware announced an expanded partnership that enables certified VMware cloud infrastructure to run in Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft first party capability is made possible through a solution provided by CloudSimple, a VMware certified partner, and officially is called Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple.
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Google Kubernetes Engine Enhancements: Upgrade Channels, Windows Container Support and Stackdriver
At the recent KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Google announced that it will offer three new release channels for its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Rapid, Regular, and Stable. With these channels, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users can choose whether they want the freshest release or the most stable one — or quickly evaluate the latest updates in a development environment.
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Vendors Argue over AWS’ Open Distro for Elasticsearch
AWS announced the release of their Open Distro for Elasticsearch back in March. However, the release has not come with support from all members of the community. While AWS states that they have released Open Distro in order to ensure that Elasticsearch remains fully open source, other members of the tech community claim this is another move by Amazon to further solidify their strong customer base.
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CircleCI Adds Additional Partner Integrations to Support Kubernetes Workloads
CircleCI has announced new partner integrations as part of their Technology Partner program. CircleCI previously introduced a package management solution called Orbs. Orbs bundle common CI/CD tasks into reusable, shareable packages. With this announcement, CircleCI has added partner-supported orbs for AWS, Azure, VMware, Red Hat, Kublr and Helm.
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Experience Building a QA Team in a Growing Organization
Shifting the test team to the left brought the whole team closer together, enabled faster learning, and improved collaboration, claimed Neven Matas, QA team lead at Infinum. He spoke at TestCon Moscow 2019 where he shared the lessons learned from building a QA team in a growing organization.
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Microsoft Launches Blockchain-Based Decentralized Identity System
Recently launched in preview by Microsoft, ION is a Decentralized Identifier (DID) network that runs on top of Bitcoin and aims to provide a decentralized identity system and PKI at scale.
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Writing Web Applications in Java - a Study of Alternatives
Developers familiar with the Java Virtual Machine languages and who want to develop web applications without the difficulties of a JavaScript development stack, have an increasing array of alternatives to JavaScript to choose from. The performance penalty vs. native JavaScript web applications is shrinking.
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Cloudflare Releases Workers KV, a Serverless Key-Value Store at the Edge
What sits between your application and the client's browser? When the answer is "the internet", Cloudflare wants their Workers platform to play a part. They recently expanded that platform with Workers KV, a distributed, eventually-consistent key-value store available in 180+ edge locations.
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Google Announces TensorFlow Graphics Library for Unsupervised Deep Learning of Computer Vision Model
At a presentation during Google I/O 2019, Google announced TensorFlow Graphics, a library for building deep neural networks for unsupervised learning tasks in computer vision. The library contains 3D rendering functions written in TensorFlow, as well as tools for learning with non-rectangular mesh-based input data.
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Capacitor 1.0 Aims to Improve the Creation of Hybrid, Web, and Native Apps
Capacitor, Ionic's new native API container aimed at creating iOS, Android, and Web apps using JavaScript, hit version 1.0. It attempts to bring a new take on how to build cross-platform apps that access native features.
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GitKraken Founder Hamid Shojaee Shares Experiences on Building a Git GUI
Git is historically a tool limited to those with a strong love of the command-line. GitKraken strives to improve on the status quo by providing a powerful GUI for working with Git.
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Introducing Interoperable Blockchain Identity Solutions with Hyperledger Aries
In a recent blog post, the Hyperledger project announced their 13th project called Hyperledger Aries, which provides an interoperable identity management toolkit that enables creating, transmitting and storing verifiable digital certificates. Using this toolkit, organizations can support, secure, interoperable peer-to-peer messaging across different distributed ledger technologies (DLT).
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Google's Cloud TPU V2 and V3 Pods Are Now Publicly Available in Beta
Recently, Google announced that its second- and third-generation Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) Pods — its scalable cloud-based supercomputers with up to 1,000 of its custom TPU — are now publicly available in beta. With these Pods, Machine Learning (ML) researchers, engineers, and data scientists can speed up the time needed to train and deploy machine learning models.
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Kubernetes Future: VMs, Containers, or Hypervisor?
In competing visions of the future of Kubernetes, Paul Czarkowski, principal technologist at Pivotal, predicts that VMs will replace containers, and Joe Fernandes, a VP at Red Hat, considers that VMs usage is evolving for Kubernetes rather than replacing containers. In addition, Chris Short, Red Hat's principal product marketing manager, said that Kubernetes is close to replacing the hypervisor.