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Fastly Open-Sources Lucet, Its WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
The Fastly edge cloud platform recently open-sourced Lucet, its native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. Lucet enables edge developers to build custom solutions for the edge at scale without limitations imposed by vendors, programming languages, or application programming interfaces (API).
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Mozilla Announces WASI Initiative to Run Web Assembly on All Devices, Computers, Operating Systems
Mozilla recently announced a new standardization effort aiming at running the same WebAssembly code across all devices, machines and operating systems. The new standard, WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), defines a single conceptual operating system interface, which can be implemented by multiple, actual operating systems. Mozilla and Fastly are already shipping prototypal WASI implementations.
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Effectively Using Jira with an Overarching Vision
Dzmitry Hryb of Atlassian partner DevInit has recently published an article responding to a TechCrunch story that claimed using Jira's issue-centric model could result in a myopia, which misses the "macro-vision." Recent writing by architect Eltjo R. Poort and DevOps lead Matt Saunders also offers patterns for using Jira with other best-fit tools to capture vision and architectural direction.
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Gremlin Announces Free Tier for Their Chaos Experimentation Platform
Gremlin has announced “Gremlin Free”, which provides the ability to run chaos engineering experiments on a free tier of their failure-as-a-service SaaS platform. The current version of the free tier allows the execution of shutdown and CPU attacks on hosts or containers, which can be controlled via a simple web-based user interface, API or CLI.
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Google's New Cloud Security Services for Better Threat Detection and Protection in Enterprises
Google announced three new services for better threat detection and protection in enterprises: Web Risk API, Cloud Armor, and Cloud HSM. All these security services will offer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers advanced security functionalities.
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Agile in Higher Education: Experiences from The Open University
Universities need to embrace an agile and product mindset, as they are grappling with hypothesis-driven development of new kinds of products and services of which they understand very little, for users whose behaviours and needs they little understand, said Matthew Moran. He presented applying the agile mindset, principles and practices for online course development at Aginext 2019.
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Anime.js 3.0 Released: New Animation Options, New Documentation Website
Julian Garnier recently released Anime 3.0. The third major iteration of Anime features new animation options, ES6 module support together with a new build process, and a new showcasing website which doubles as documentation.
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Gloo Gateway Released for Kubernetes Knative
Gloo, an Envoy-based API Gateway by Solo.io, is the first official alternative to Istio for the Kubernetes Knative service. InfoQ reached out to Solo Founder Idit Levine to learn more about Gloo and its integration with Knative.
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Design and Security in Agile: QCon London Q&A
Reviews of design diagrams by domain experts can detect potential security breaches not found by vulnerability scans or security automation. Such reviews should focus on critical functions like issuing and managing access tokens, transferring data to external services, and running untrusted code, said Kevin Gilpin, enterprise software engineer and co-founder of AppLand, at QCon London 2019.
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Protocols are Important: Martin Thompson at QCon London
The protocols we use should be studied and practiced more, they are really important in many aspects, Martin Thompson claimed in his presentation at QCon London 2019, where he first looked back at the evolution of mankind and argued that protocols is the most significant human discovery, and then did a critical analysis of the protocols and ideas we use today.
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Spring Boot 2.2 Reaches First Milestone Release with Performance and Memory Improvements
The Spring Boot team recently released v2.2.0 M1, the first milestone release of Spring Boot 2.2. It includes performance and memory improvements, Kubernetes-detection, and third-party library updates. Over 140 issues were resolved with this release. Starting with this release, JMX is now disabled by default.
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Observability in Testing with ElasTest
In a distributed application it is difficult to use debugging techniques common in developing non-distributed applications. Bringing production observability to your testing environment helps to find bugs, argued Francisco Gortázar at the European Testing Conference 2019. He presented ElasTest, a tool for developers to test and validate complex distributed systems using observability.
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A Description of RSocket and Its Communication Model: Robert Roeser at QCon London
RSocket is an asynchronous network communication protocol where communication is modelled as multiplexed streams of messages over a single network connection. In a presentation at QCon London 2019, Robert Roeser explained the reasons for creating RSocket and the communication model it uses. In the same presentation, Ondrej Lehecka described two use cases, and Andy Shi ran a demo using RSocket.
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Helidon V1 Brings API Stability and MicroProfile 1.2 Support
Oracle has released version 1.0 of Project Helidon, an open-source collection of Java libraries to build microservices, with greater API stability than beta versions and support for the MicroProfile 1.2 spec. Helidon comes in two programming models: Helidon SE and Helidon MP.
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Designing and Building a Resilient Serverless System: John Chapin at QCon London
In a presentation at QCon London 2019, John Chapin explained the basics of serverless technologies and how to architect and build a resilient serverless system. He also ran a demo of a how a globally distributed, highly available application can be built and run in multiple regions on AWS.