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Google Updates Key Cloud Database Services
Google unveiled new database capabilities and partnerships at the recently-concluded Google Cloud Next conference. This included expanded beta access for Cloud Firestore, new functionality for Cloud Bigtable, and highly-requested features for Cloud Spanner. There were also announcements around expanded support for SAP and Oracle workloads.
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How SendGrid Scales Its Email Delivery Systems
SendGrid, a cloud based email service, has seen its backend architecture evolve from a small Postfix installation to a system hosted on their own data-centers as well as on the public cloud. Rewriting of services in Go, a gradual move to AWS, and a distributed Ceph-based queue allows the team to hand over 40 billion emails per month.
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Buoyant's Conduit Service Mesh Officially Becomes Linkerd 2
Conduit officially merged into the Linkerd project and released as Linkerd 2 (Beta). In addition to regular Linkerd 1 releases, Linkerd 2 (beta) artifacts are now being generated. Linkerd 2 code is fully open sourced and available on their GitHub repository. Conduit 0.5.0 is its last official release of the Conduit project.
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Eclipse Foundation Releases Eclipse Photon IDE
The Eclipse Foundation has released the latest version of the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse Photon brings support for both Java 10 and Java EE 8, improvements for PHP development tools, Dark theme improvements, and more.
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Eich and Crockford on the Future of JavaScript: Insight from the Creators of JavaScript and JSON
At the recent FullStack conference in London, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and JSON creator and JavaScript: The Good Parts author Douglas Crockford spoke on the future of JavaScript.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Now Offers an Amazon Linux 2 Desktop
With the new Amazon WorkSpaces, customers now use Amazon Linux 2 as a desktop besides Windows 7 and 10. The Amazon Linux 2 WorkSpaces are available in different forms including Amazon Machine Image.
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Focusing on Business Outcomes at Barclays: Overcoming the "Urgency Paradox"
Jonathan Smart, head of working ways, and Morag McCall, PMO at Barclays, spoke last month at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London about re-thinking the entire flow of work, from initial idea triage until releasing to production. This means introducing agility into how the application and services portfolio is managed, as well as changing the role of the PMO and finance departments.
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Brain Based Learning: Applying Training From The Back Of The Room
The human brain learns in many different ways; a training mode must fit the purpose and desired outcome. Practices from Training From the BACK of the Room! can be used to make training stick. Forcing big changes on people can be perceived as a threat; it’s better to create psychological safety, foster curiosity, and give feedback in ways that continue the dialogue instead of shutting down.
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Instana Releases Sample Microservice Application
Instana, provider of AI powered monitoring solutions for dynamic containerised microservice applications, announced at QCon New York the release of Stan’s Robot Shop, a sample microservice application that can be used as a sandbox to test and learn about microservice architecture, containerised application orchestration and automatic monitoring techniques.
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Google Cloud Incident Root-Cause Analysis and Remediation
Google disclosed its root-cause analysis of an incident affecting a few of its Cloud services that increased error rates between 33% and 87% for about 32 minutes, along with the steps they will take to improve the platform performance and availability.
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Fin Goulding Injects Agility into the Management of Everything
Fin Goulding, international CIO at Aviva, recently spoke at the DevOps Enterprise Summit London about using flow principles to advance agile capabilities throughout an organisation. InfoQ asked Goulding to expand on some of the points that he made during his talk.
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Google Releases Knative: A Kubernetes Framework to Build, Deploy, and Manage Serverless Workloads
At Google Cloud Next 2018 the release of Knative was announced as a “Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads”. The open source framework attempts to codify the best practices around building, serving requests, and eventing. Knative has been developed by Google in close partnership with Pivotal, IBM, Red Hat, and SAP.
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HashiCorp Releases Consul 1.2 with "Consul Connect" Service Mesh Solution
HashiCorp has released Consul 1.2.1, the latest version of their highly available and distributed service discovery and key-value store, which also includes a public beta launch of the Consul Connect. Consul Connect provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual TLS, and “automatically turns any existing Consul cluster into a service mesh solution.”
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GitHub Security Alerts for Python
GitHub has announced security alerts for Python, providing access to Python users to the dependency graph, as well as receive security alerts whenever their repositories depend on packages with known security vulnerabilities.
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NetBSD 8.0 Brings Spectre V2/V4, Meltdown, and Lazy FPU Mitigations, and More
NetBSD 8.0, a major release of the BSD-based OS providing portability across many architectures, brings mitigations for the Spectre V2/V4, Meltdown, and Lazy FPU vulnerabilities, along with many new features and bug fixes.