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InfoQ Live July 20th: Software Supply Chain for DevOps & Reducing Feature Flag Debt
How can modern DevOps practices accelerate your software delivery without the quality issues? Learn how automation, continuous testing, and supply management techniques can improve software quality and speed of delivery. Get valuable insights from world-class domain experts at InfoQ Live on July 20th.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Bastion Standard SKU
Azure Bastion is a fully-managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution providing customers a secure way to connect to a virtual machine using a browser and the Azure portal. Recently, the company announced the public preview of the second Stock Keeping-Unit (SKU) called Standard.
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Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Announces CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions
Amazon recently announced the CI/CD integration of Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer with GitHub Actions. The cloud provider also released 20 new security detectors for Java to identify issues and follow best security practices.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Arc-Enabled SQL
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability as per the end of July of Azure Arc-enabled SQL, which extends the Azure SQL instances to be hosted on an edge data center or in a multi-cloud environment. An Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instance has near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server database engine.
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SUSE Releases Harvester v0.2.0, an HCI Solution Built Using Kubernetes
Harvester, an open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software built using Kubernetes, recently announced its v0.2.0 release. Harvester can be used to implement HCI on bare metal servers and is an open source alternative to vSphere and Nutanix. The first release, 0.1.0, was made public earlier this year.
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GitLab 14 Introduces Epic Boards, Improves Pipeline Editor and Kubernetes Agent, and More
With GitLab 14, GitLab is reaffirming its view of a unified DevOps platform integrating all the tools and tech stacks that are required by development teams. The latest release of the platform includes many new features meant to improve development velocity, application security, and analytics.
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Automating Software Quality Certification at eBay
The eBay Application Platform Team has started using Kubernetes Operators, Helm Charts and Jenkins to ensure software quality at the organization. In order to perform safe changes within the associated containers and environments, the team has created a self-service “certification” solution.
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Fauna Introduces Fauna Labs to Help Developers Adopt Database Service
The company behind the Fauna transactional database has recently announced Fauna Labs, a collection of experimental tools to help developers integrate Fauna in their applications, including infrastructure as code and single sign-on application templates.
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AWS Introduces AWS Bugbust - a Global Competition to Fix One Million Bugs
Recently, AWS announced a global challenge to fix one million bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million with AWS BugBust. The solution utilizes ML-powered developer tools - Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler - to automatically scan code to weed out bugs, and gamifies fixing and eliminating them.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure ND A100 V4 Cloud GPU Instances
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances—powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These Virtual Machines (VMs) are targeted at customers with high performance and demanding workloads like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads.
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AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS introduced a new Workflow Studio for its Step Functions offering. Through the AWS Management Console, developers can now access a visual builder to create Step Functions workflows.
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AWS Key Management Service Introduces Multi-Region Keys
AWS has recently announced the availability of KMS multi-region keys, a new feature for client-side applications that makes encrypted data portable across regions.
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.NET News Roundup: .NET 6, MAUI, EF Core 6, Visual Studio 2022
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks (including MAUI), along with the first preview of Visual Studio 2022, new Azure SDK libraries, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of June 14th, 2021.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of a New Set of Azure Arc-Enabled Services
Recently, Microsoft, during its annual Build conference, announced a new set of Azure Service in preview that customers can run on virtually any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster with the help of its Azure Arc multi-cloud service. With Azure Arc, customers can use a single service in the Cloud to manage their container clusters across clouds and on-premises data centers.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Proton
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its fully-managed application delivery service, AWS Proton, allowing customers to easily provision, deploy, and monitor the microservices that form the basis of modern container and serverless applications.