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Ambassador Edge Stack Seeks Shortening of the Inner Development Loop
Datawire, provider of Kubernetes-native API gateway, Ambassador, has released a new version of Ambassador Edge Stack designed to accelerate the inner development loop. The new Service Preview capability uses Layer 7 (L7) control to allow multiple developers to code locally and preview changes as if the changes were part of the live cluster.
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Pulumi Releases Version 2.0 with New Policy as Code Tool
Pulumi announced the release of version 2.0 of their open source infrastructure as code platform. This release includes a new policy as code system called CrossGuard. Also included are improvements for moving pre-existing systems into Pulumi.
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AWS Releases its Machine Learning Powered Enterprise Search Service Kendra into General Availability
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of its enterprise search service Kendra on AWS. With the GA release of Amazon Kendra, the public cloud provider added a few new specialized features and improved service accuracy.
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Docker Q&A on the New Compose Specification Community
Docker released a community for developing the Compose specification to help developers build cloud-native applications using compose. There've been different implementations of Docker compose to make it work in platforms like Kubernetes or AWS ECS. But Docker wants to work with the community to provide better support and define the future of Compose.
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Khan Academy's Scaling Story to 2.5x Traffic Using a Serverless Architecture and CDN
Khan Academy’s engineering team shared their story of scaling to 2.5x their usual traffic by leveraging a serverless architecture on Google App Engine and their static content delivery providers Fastly and Youtube.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of EC2 M6g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of their 6th generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) General Purpose instance: the M6g – with the ‘g’ standing for “Graviton2”, a next-generation Arm-based chip. The public cloud vendor and their acquired company Annapurna Labs designed this chip, which utilizes 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores.
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Scaleway Launches Kubernetes Kapsule
Bare-metal cloud solutions provider, Scaleway, has released Kubernetes Kapsule, its containerized application orchestration solution based on the Kubernetes platform and certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The Kubernetes Kapsule service is designed to give IT organizations inside and out of France access to a bare-metal instance of Kubernetes.
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Q&A on Container Scaling with Fargate
Vlad Ionescu, an AWS Container Hero, in early April reported on his experiments with scaling Amazon Fargate for batch processing or background jobs.
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GitLab Annual DevOps Survey Shows Emerging Trends and Changing Roles
Completed by over 3500 developers from 21 countries, GitLab's DevOps survey encompasses three major areas, development and release, security, and testing. The survey hints at faster release cycles and improved quality, with the more recent DevSecOps area requiring more organizational fine-tuning. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with GitLab's senior developer evangelist, Brendan O'Leary.
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Building a Containerless Future with WebAssembly - Kevin Hoffman at WebAssembly Summit
Kevin Hoffman discussed at the WebAssembly summit the current state of the art in WebAssembly and what can be built with it today. Hoffman peeked at a containerless future where WebAssembly modules are the de-facto unit of immutable deployment in the cloud, at the edge, and in IoT and embedded devices.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of UltraWarm for Its Elastic Search Service on AWS
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of UltraWarm for its Elasticsearch Service on AWS. Ultrawarm is a low cost warm storage tier, and extension to the Elasticsearch Service - offering up to three petabytes of storage, at almost a 90% cost reduction over existing options.
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Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry Now Generally Available on AWS
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of the Schema Registry capability in the Amazon EventBridge service. With Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry, developers can store the event structure - or schema - in a shared central location and map those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript, meaning that they can use events as objects in their code.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of DCsv2-VM from Azure Confidential Computing
Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs). With these VMs, customers can deliver applications that protect data while in use.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Windows Server Containers, and More for AKS
Almost a year ago, Microsoft launched a preview of Windows Server Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Now the company announced the general availability of Windows Server containers in AKS, including the support of private clusters and managed identities.
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Shifting-Left Testing with Mabl DevTestOps Platform
Corresponding to the ideas of "test early, test often" and "test as early as possible" in the development lifecycle, shift-left testing is a well-known approach. Recently, the combination of shift-left testing and CI/CD is fueling a new approach to DevOps dubbed DevTestOps. InfoQ has spoken with Dan Belcher, co-founder at DevTestOps platform maker mabl.