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WebAssembly Reference Types Implemented in wasmtime, Lets Wasm Modules Handle Complex Types
Nick Fitzgerald recently announced the implementation of the WebAssembly reference types proposal in wasmtime. With reference types, a WebAssembly runtime can handle references to complex host objects (e,g, DOM nodes) instead of only integer and floating-point values. Reference types pave the way for more WebAssembly features – interface types, garbage collection, module linking, and more.
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Delivering Technology through Software Engineering Leadership: Upcoming InfoQ Live Event
InfoQ Live, the interactive virtual event designed for the modern software practitioner, returns on Sept 23rd with a new topic focus: delivering technology by software engineering leadership and by empowering teams. Join world-class practitioners and deep-dive into best practices for leading tech projects, analyzing team data dynamics, and leading teams in uncertain times.
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Oracle Introduces the MySQL Database Service on Its Cloud Infrastructure
In a recent blog post, Oracle introduced the MySQL Database Service in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The service is now available as a fully-managed service running on Oracle Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Spring Cloud
Recently Microsoft and VMware both announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully-managed service for Spring Boot apps. The service allows enterprises to deploy JARs or code to it, and the service automates the process of wiring the apps to the Spring service runtime.
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VMware Tanzu Service Mesh from a Developer's Perspective
Deepa Kalani and Ramiro Salas from the VMware team spoke at SpringOne 2020 Conference last week about the service mesh product and how it helps developers with Global Namespaces to implement access control and security policies, as well as visualization tools to show application-centric metrics.
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Q&A with Canonical's Alex Chalkias about Kubernetes 1.19 Enterprise Support and KubeCon
InfoQ caught up with Alex Chalkias, product manager at Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020, regarding the enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.19, KubeCon EU 2020, the future of Kubernetes, and how Canonical is enabling its adoption in the enterprise.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Immersive Reader Service on the Azure AI Platform
Immersive Reader, which is a part of the Cognitive Services suite within the Microsoft Azure AI Platform, provides help for readers to read and comprehend text. In a recent blog, Microsoft announced the general availability of the service.
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SpringOne 2020 Conference: Running Persistent Data in a Multi-Cloud Architecture
Managing persistent data workloads in a multi-cloud architecture is critical for organizations hosting their apps on-premise and in public cloud environments. Aditya Tripathi and Judy Wang from VMware spoke at SpringOne 2020 Conference on Wednesday about architectural best practices to help simplify a multi-cloud strategy.
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Multi-Cloud: Worst Practice or the Future of Public Cloud?
Corey Quinn, cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, recently argued that multi-cloud is "the worst practice to be avoided by default”. Not everyone agrees.
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Observability Strategies for Distributed Systems - Lessons Learned at InfoQ Live
A good observability strategy makes it easy for teams to share their data, and uses data from across a distributed system to identify if business goals are being achieved. These were some of the ideas discussed during the InfoQ Live roundtable discussion on observability patterns for distributed systems, held on August 25.
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Amazon Announces the Preview of AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool by AWS allowing users to manage AWS services from Kubernetes directly. In a blog post, the public cloud vendor states the tool will make it easy to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
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Rookout CTO Discusses Understandability, Architecture Styles, and Live Debugging
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Liran Haimovitch, CTO at Rookout, discussed the concept of “understandability” and how this relates to building modern software systems. Building on the concepts introduced in his recent InfoQ article, he also discussed how complexity impacts a system’s understandability, and the benefits of live debugging tooling.
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Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other service mesh implementations like Istio, Linkerd, or Consul. Additionally, the OSM team is in the process of donating the project to the CNCF.
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ServiceMeshCon Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Located Event
Christian Posta form Solo.io discussed multi-cluster and multi-mesh patterns at the recent ServiceMeshCon event which was held as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Conference. There were also talks on Istio architecture, WebAssembly for Istio telemetry and iteratively implementing Istio service mesh with no downtime.
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Introduction to Mutation Testing - Dave Aronson at JSConf Hawaii
Dave Aronson gave at JSConf Hawaii 2020 an introduction to mutation testing. Aronson presented the rationale behind mutation testing, its benefits, drawbacks and pitfalls, and how it works under the hood.