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Ruby on Rails 8.0 Released, Introduces Kamal 2 for Improved Deployments
Recently, Ruby on Rails introduced v8.0, introducing updates aimed at simplifying deployment, enhancing performance, and reducing dependencies. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner & CTO of 37signals announced the major enhancements in a blog post.
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Ruiz and Almiray at Devoxx UK: Lessons on How to Escape the Maven Dependency Hell
During their Devoxx UK talk Ixchel Ruiz, developer advocate at JFrog, and Andres Almiray, principal product manager at Oracle, presented multiple “maven puzzlers" together with their potential solutions to escaping the Apache Maven dependencies hell. In an effort to be as comprehensive as possible, they spoke about direct, transient and even inherited dependencies from parent POMs.
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GitHub Adds SBOM Export to Make it Easier to Comply with Security Requirements
GitHub has announced a new SBOM export feature meant to be used as part of security compliance workflows and tools. The new feature allows you to export NTIA-compliant SBOM easily, says GitHub.
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The Swift Package Index Now Backed by Apple
The Swift Package Index was created about three years ago by Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt, with the aim of making it easier for Swift developers to search and discover Swift packages. The project is now officially sponsored by Apple, thus making it the official place to go for anything related to Swift packages
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JFrog Artifactory Supports Binary Dependencies for Swift
JFrog has announced its Artifactory repository can be used as a binary package registry for Swift dependencies using the Swift Package Manager.
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Managing Complex Dependencies with Distributed Architecture at eBay
The eBay engineering team recently outlined how they came up with a scalable release system. The release solution leverages distributed architecture to release more than 3,000 dependent libraries in about two hours. The team is using Jenkins to perform the release in combination with Groovy scripts.
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Log4Shell Defenses: Java Agents in Conversation with Contrast Security’s Arshan Dabirsiaghi
Due to the critical nature of the systems and to the severe and critical nature of the log4shell vulnerability, an alternative approach to fixing it was required. Java Agents played a crucial role in this defense strategy. InfoQ reached out to Arshan Dabirsianghi, chief scientist and founder of Contrast Security, for a better understanding of their approach.
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Designing Microservice Architectures the Right Way: Michael Bryzek's Lessons Learned at QCon NY
At QCon New York 2018, Michael Bryzek discussed how to design microservice architectures “the right way”. Key takeaways included: engineers should design schema first for all APIs and events, as this allows the automated code generation of boilerplate code; and investment should be made in automation, such as deployment and dependency management.
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What Resiliency Means at Sportradar
Pablo Jensen, CTO at Sportradar, talked about practices and procedures in place at Sportradar to ensure their systems meet expected resiliency levels, at this year's QCon London conference. Jensen mentioned how reliability is influenced not only by technical concerns but also organizational structure and governance, client support, and requires on-going effort to continuously improve.
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Deis Helm Major Release Improves Kubernetes Usability
InfoQ recently interviewed Jason Hansen, chief architect at Deis, about a recent major release of Deis Helm. Deis builds open source tools that make using Kubernetes easier. The banner feature for the release is first-class support to upgrade Kubernetes releases in place. Helm now also provides the ability to define pre and post hooks that are called during install, upgrade, and deletion.
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Q&A with Baruch Sadogursky on the Challenges of Managing Docker Containers Lifecycle
InfoQ interviewed Baruch Sadogursky, developer advocate at JFrog, to better understand some of the challenges in managing the lifecycle of Docker containers, namely controlling and tracking the flow of Docker images from development to production.
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Carthage: GitHub's Dependency Manager for Xcode Projects
Carthage is a dependency manager for Objective-C and Swift projects aims to be "ruthlessy simple," says its author Justin Spahr-Summers. Carthage has been developed at GitHub and its philosophy is "delegating tasks to Xcode and Git" as much as possible so developers can use the tools they "are already familiar with."
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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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Solution Wide Dependency Management for .NET
NuGet will now be available in version 1.4 which improves over version 1.3 with features such as ability to manage packages at the solution level, improvement in Update–Package command, support in constraining the range of versions while updating packages and more. Along with the new features there are total of 88 work item fixes, 71 out of those being bug fixes.