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Oliver Gould on Linkerd Service Mesh and Traffic Management
Oliver Gould, Linkerd product lead and CTO of Buyont, spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Linkerd service mesh, with a focus on traffic management capabilities.
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Intel Working on New Data Parallel C++
Announced at its Software Technology Day in London, Intel new Data Parallel C++ aims to provide a unified, cross-industry, single-source language to program heterogeneous architectures.
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Vue 3.0 Discards Class-Based API for Reusable, Composable Function-Based Approach
The Vue team recently opened an RFC describing the function-based component API for the upcoming Vue 3. Like React Hooks, the function-based component API allows developers to encapsulate logic into “composition functions” and reuse that logic to build larger components. The new component API provides better TypeScript type inference support, in ways that the now discarded Class API RFC cannot.
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How Did Things Go Right? Learning More from Incidents at Netflix: Ryan Kitchens at QCon New York
At QCon New York, Ryan Kitchens presented “How Did Things Go Right? Learning More from Incidents”. Key takeaways from the talk included: recovery is better than prevention; an incident occurs when there is a “perfect storm” of events -- there is no root cause; “stop reporting on the nines”, as user happiness is more important; and there is value in learning how things go right.
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Celia Kung on LinkedIn's Brooklin Data Streaming Service
Celia Kung from LinkedIn's team spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Brooklin data streaming service that supports pluggable sources and destinations. These can be data stores or messaging systems making the solution flexible and extensible. Brooklin is part of the streams infrastructure platform developed at LinkedIn.
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API Strategies at eBay
After working with improperly versioned SOAP-based APIs for many years, eBay decided to move to new RESTful APIs with semantic versioning and a deprecation standard. Focus is on extensibility and adaptability to make it easier for developers to create new applications that utilize eBay’s APIs. In a blog post, Tanya Vlahovic describes the concepts and how they are implemented in their APIs.
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Open Source Messaging Software NATS Releases 2.0
Open source messaging software NATS 2.0 has been released and offers advanced security management, global disaster recovery, and improved performance at scale. NATS is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides messaging services for cloud native systems, IoT messaging, and microservices.
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DOES London: RBS' Jennifer Wood on Conquering the Abyss and Rebirth
Jennifer Wood’s talk, ‘Our Heroes’ Journey to Agility’, opened the proceedings at this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. Wood first spoke at the conference last year, with her ‘The Art of Scaling Agile and DevOps’ and took the opportunity to build on the journey she is witnessing at RBS in her role as chief operating officer.
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DOES London: Mark Schwartz on War & Peace & IT
Mark Schwartz, former CIO and self-described iconoclast, spoke recently at DevOps Enterprise Summit London. Schwartz is the author of three books published by IT Revolution: ‘The Art of Business’, ‘A Seat at the Table’ and ‘War & Peace & IT,’ and is currently an enterprise strategist at Amazon Web Services.
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Bringing Blockchain Developer Tools to the Enterprise, Truffle and Microsoft Announce Partnership
In a recent blogpost, Microsoft and Truffle announced a partnership to bring blockchain developer tools and experiences to the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. The investments the organizations are making include local blockchain nodes for testing, with test data, smart contract authoring and continuous deployment, debugging and testing.
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Patterns in Distributed Systems
In a series of blog posts, Mathias Verraes describes patterns in distributed systems that he has encountered in his work and has found helpful. He currently describes 16 patterns in three areas: patterns for decoupling, general messaging patterns and event sourcing patterns. His goal is to identify, name and document the patterns together with the context in which they can be useful.
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Benefits of Microsoft’s New Versions of Azure Application Gateway and the Web Application Firewall
In a recent blog post, Microsoft discusses the benefits of the generally available releases of Azure Application Gateway V2 Standard SKU and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2 SKU's. Microsoft fully supports them with a 99.95% SLA, significant improvements and capabilities.
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Defining Bounded Contexts — Eric Evans at DDD Europe
A bounded context is a defined part of software where particular terms and rules apply in a consistent way, Eric Evans explained in his keynote at DDD Europe earlier this year; it should have a refined model and a language with unambiguous definitions. In a recently published presentation, he describes different kinds of bounded contexts, including some that involve microservices.
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Ionic Capacitor: Creating Native Applications with JavaScript
Capacitor is a new development framework by Ionic for hybrid application creation. Capacitor provides an alternative to Apache Cordova, a well-established solution first released in 2009.
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Service Mesh Interface (SMI): Q&A with Microsoft's Lachlan Evenson
InfoQ caught up with Lachlan Evenson, principal program manager at Microsoft, regarding the recent announcement at KubeCon of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI). Topics also discussed included the ecosystem of service meshes on Kubernetes.