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Oracle Acquires Apiary to Strengthen its API Integration Cloud
Oracle announced plans to acquire Apiary, the API management company with a focus on API design and collaboration, on January 19. Apiary is best known for API flow, its API management platform.
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Apache HBase 1.3 Ships with Multiple Performance Improvements
Apache HBase 1.3.0 was released mid-January 2017 and ships with support for date-based tiered compaction and improvements in multiple areas, like write-ahead log (WAL), and a new RPC scheduler, among others. The release includes almost 1,700 resolved issues in total.
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The OpenAPI Spec, Based on Swagger, Reaches 3.0
The Open API Initiative has announced the preview of the OpenAPI 3.0 with an Implementer Draft scheduled for the end of February.
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Q&A with Susan Fowler on Production-Ready Microservices
At the upcoming Microservices.com Practitioners Summit on Jan 31, Susan Fowler, an engineer at Stripe, will be presenting on topics from her book, Production Ready Microservices. InfoQ met with Fowler to discuss the technical, business and cultural challenges of successfully implementing a microservices architecture.
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Chaperone - A Kafka Auditing Tool from the Uber Engineering Team
The Uber Engineering team released their Kafka auditing tool called Chaperone as an open-source project. Chaperone allows for auditing and detection of data loss, latency, and duplication of messages in the multi-datacenter and high-volume Kafka setup at Uber.
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eBay Announces New Buy and Sell APIs
eBay recently announced the release of two brand new buy and sell API’s.
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Chrome and Firefox Start Warning of Insecure Sites
Starting with Chrome 56 and Firefox 51, browsers will start warning users if they browse a non-HTTPS site that contains a password or credit card input field.
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Q&A with Matt Klein on Creating Envoy at Lyft
At the upcoming Microservices.com Practitioners Summit on Jan 31, Matt Klein, a senior software engineer at Lyft, will be presenting his work on Envoy, a Layer 7 communications bus used throughout Lyft’s service-oriented architecture. InfoQ met with Klein to discuss the benefits of creating a custom tool for Lyft’s networking needs, and how it could benefit other microservices architectures.
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Apache Eagle, Originally from eBay, Graduates to top-level project
Apache Eagle, an open-source solution for identifying security and performance issues on big data platforms, graduates to Apache top level project on January 10, 2017. Firstly open-sourced by eBay on October 2015, Eagle was created to instantly detect access to sensitive data or malicious activities and, to take actions in a timely fashion.
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Improving Azure SQL Database Performance Using In-Memory Technologies
In late 2016, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure SQL Database In-Memory technologies. In-Memory processing is only available in Azure Premium database tiers and provides performance improvements for On-line Analytical Processing (OLTP), Clustered Columnstore Indexes and Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes for Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) scenarios.
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Intel Open-Sources BigDL, Distributed Deep Learning Library for Apache Spark
Intel open-sources BigDL, a distributed deep learning library that runs on Apache Spark. It leverages existing Spark clusters to run deep learning computations and simplifies the data loading from big datasets stored in Hadoop.
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Atom 1.13 Brings Benchmarks, Project History, and Keystroke Resolver API
Version 1.13 of Atom, GitHub’s Electron-based open source text editor, adds a host of new features and improvements for users and developers, including a benchmarking tool, a Reopen Project menu option and API, and a custom keystroke resolver to map Chrome keyboard events to Atom-style keystrokes.
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Applying Sociocracy 3.0 Patterns for Implementing Agile Practices
Sociocracy 3.0 is an open framework which supports collaboration in agile organizations and helps them to continuously improve products and services. The framework provides patterns for activities like coordinating work, effective meetings, governance, and building organizations.
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AWS Step Functions: Coordinating Distributed Applications and Microservices Using Visual Workflows
Amazon Web Services have launched AWS Step Functions, a service that enables the coordination of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows. The AWS Step Functions console allows the JSON specification of a state machine to be defined that execute 'steps' within an application, e.g., by calling out to an AWS Lambda function or containerised application running on AWS ECS.
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Survey Finds IT Still Not Aligned with Customer and Business Needs
The results of a survey, run by Tasktop using the Forrester Modern Application Assessment Tool, indicate that, despite the ongoing adoption of agile, lean, DevOps and other "modern" approaches, there is still a large gap between IT development priorities and the needs of customers and business people in many organisations.