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Open Policy Agent Graduates at CNCF
The CNCF announced the graduation of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. OPA is an open source policy management and enforcement engine that has declarative policies and integrates with various systems including Kubernetes.
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AWS Step Functions Gains Synchronous Express Workflows
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that AWS Step Functions supports synchronous Express workflows to "easily build web-based applications and orchestrate high-volume, short-duration microservices". Express workflows, a cost-effective, high-performance workflow type with a runtime of up to five minutes, can now be synchronously invoked from Amazon API Gateway or directly via the API.
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Google Releases Eventarc into General Availability
Eventarc is an eventing functionality available on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), allowing customers to send events to Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. In a recent blog post, the company announced the general availability (GA) of Eventarc.
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InfoQ Live: Practical Ways to Integrate Observability into Your Distributed System Architecture
On Feb 16th, InfoQ Live, the one-day virtual event for software engineers, will explore practical ways you can use and integrate observability into your distributed system architecture.
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Confluent Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft
Confluent, the company of the founders of Apache Kafka, recently announced a new strategic alliance between them and Microsoft to enable a more integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform.
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Learn about the Most In-Demand Skills from Expert Practitioners at QCon Plus, May 17-28
If you are a senior software engineer, architect, or team lead and want to take your technical learning and personal development to a whole new level this year, join us at QCon Plus on May 17-28. Here you can discover trends, best practices, and solutions implemented by the world's most innovative software organizations.
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HashiCorp Announces Public Beta of HCP Vault
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the public beta of HashiCorp Vault on its Cloud Platform (HCP). With Vault, customers can leverage a managed cloud service to provide them with secret management and encryption capabilities.
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No-Code App Development is Essential for Digital Transformation
Jennifer Cadence, a product marketing manager at Google, recently published an account of the state of no-code app development. In her post, Cadence breaks down why no-code platforms have become an essential part of digital transformation. She suggests that speed and agility, productivity and collaboration, and governance and security are the critical factors for these platforms' importance.
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Embracing Observability in Distributed Systems at InfoQ Live (Virtual Event on Feb 16th)
InfoQ Live, the one-day virtual event designed for the modern software practitioner, returns on Feb 16th, 2021. The focus of this edition is to explore and discover practical ways you can use and integrate observability into your distributed system architecture. Join us on Feb 16th from 9 am EDT / 3 PM CEST. Register for only $19.95.
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Medium Describes "Rex" - a Go-Based Recommendation Service
In a recent blog post, Medium describes how it built a recommendation service named "Rex." The original recommendation service was part of the Node.js monolith, and it could only rank 150 stories. However, Medium wanted this service to rank hundreds of thousands of stories per user in under a second. So, they decided to build an entirely new, separate service using Go.
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Organizing Information about APIs with Google Registry API
Google Registry API aims to allow developers to organize information about APIs by uploading and sharing machine-readable descriptions of the APIs they use in development.
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EventStoreDB 20.10 Released with Support for gRPC and Improved Security
EventStore Ltd has released EventStoreDB 20.10, a major release of their platform that helps build applications utilizing the Command Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing (ES) patterns.
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The Journey from Monolith to Microservices at GitHub: QCon Plus Q&A
GitHub needed to fundamentally rethink how they did software development due to all of the different cultures, norms, and technology stacks that their teams brought to the table. They are migrating toward a microservices architecture that enables different teams and systems and technologies to work harmoniously together.
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Red Hat Releases OptaPlanner 8
InfoQ spoke to Geoffrey De Smet about Red Hat’s OptaPlanner 8 release. This new version provides better support for new technologies such as Spring Boot and Quarkus, while still supporting Spring Boot and plain Java. One of the improvements for release 8 are quickstart examples showcasing the various OptaPlanner features in the supported technologies.
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Uber Implements Disaster Recovery for Multi-Region Kafka
In a recent blog post, Uber engineers highlight how they use a replication platform to implement disaster recovery at scale with a multi-region Kafka deployment. Uber has a large deployment of Apache Kafka, processing trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data per day. Uber's engineers provided business resilience and continuity in the face of natural and human-made disasters.