InfoQ Homepage News
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Q&A with Canonical's Alex Chalkias about Kubernetes 1.19 Enterprise Support and KubeCon
InfoQ caught up with Alex Chalkias, product manager at Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020, regarding the enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.19, KubeCon EU 2020, the future of Kubernetes, and how Canonical is enabling its adoption in the enterprise.
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Salesforce Releases Photon Natural Language Interface for Databases
A team of scientists from Salesforce Research and Chinese University of Hong Kong have released Photon, a natural language interface to databases (NLIDB). The team used deep-learning to construct a parser that achieves 63% accuracy on a common benchmark and an error-detecting module that prompts users to clarify ambiguous questions.
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Product Owner Is a Bad Bad Idea
The question of whether the product owner role is good or not clearly depends on a lot of factors, including team maturity, organisational maturity, organisational type, organisational complexity, and the product owner themselves. Some thought leaders are challenging the function of the role especially in these VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) times.
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Artificial Intelligence Can Create Sound Tracks for Silent Videos
Researchers Ghose and Prevost created a deep learning algorithm which, given a silent video, can generate a realistic sounding synchronised soundtrack. They trained the neural network to classify the class of the sound to generate, and they also trained a sequential network to generate the sound. They thus could go from temporally aligned images to the generation of sound: a different modality!
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Immersive Reader Service on the Azure AI Platform
Immersive Reader, which is a part of the Cognitive Services suite within the Microsoft Azure AI Platform, provides help for readers to read and comprehend text. In a recent blog, Microsoft announced the general availability of the service.
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Attackers Found Building Malicious Container Images Directly on Host
Aqua’s cyber security research team, ‘Nautilus,’ has found a new attack technique targeting misconfigured Docker Daemon API ports to build an image directly on the target host container infrastructure, in order to mine cryptocurrency. Further investigation by the team uncovered an associated 330k malicious image pulls from an infrastructure of 23 container images stored in Docker Hub.
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SpringOne 2020 Conference: Running Persistent Data in a Multi-Cloud Architecture
Managing persistent data workloads in a multi-cloud architecture is critical for organizations hosting their apps on-premise and in public cloud environments. Aditya Tripathi and Judy Wang from VMware spoke at SpringOne 2020 Conference on Wednesday about architectural best practices to help simplify a multi-cloud strategy.
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The International Week of Happiness at Work
During the last week of September, from the 21st to the 27th, companies and individuals around the globe are invited to celebrate the International Week of Happiness at Work for the third time. The event was created to promote happiness at work around the globe and companies are encouraged to organize events to focus on increasing happiness at work
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Multi-Cloud: Worst Practice or the Future of Public Cloud?
Corey Quinn, cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, recently argued that multi-cloud is "the worst practice to be avoided by default”. Not everyone agrees.
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Observability Strategies for Distributed Systems - Lessons Learned at InfoQ Live
A good observability strategy makes it easy for teams to share their data, and uses data from across a distributed system to identify if business goals are being achieved. These were some of the ideas discussed during the InfoQ Live roundtable discussion on observability patterns for distributed systems, held on August 25.
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Best Practices for Web Developers with Webhint - Rachel Simone Weil at OpenJS World
Rachel Simone Weil, product manager for the new Microsoft Edge’s developer tools, recently gave a talk at OpenJS world addressing how the webhint tool suite supports web developers in implementing best practices.
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Taking Advantage of Attitudes for Building Products
Attitudes like cynicism, skepticism and optimism impact how we develop products. Being aware of attitude matters, as it can block development or lead to building the wrong product. InfoQ interviewed Gwen Diagram about cynicism, skepticism, and optimism, the impact developers can have, and dealing with attitudes in teams.
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Amazon Announces the Preview of AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool by AWS allowing users to manage AWS services from Kubernetes directly. In a blog post, the public cloud vendor states the tool will make it easy to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
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Rookout CTO Discusses Understandability, Architecture Styles, and Live Debugging
In a recent InfoQ podcast, Liran Haimovitch, CTO at Rookout, discussed the concept of “understandability” and how this relates to building modern software systems. Building on the concepts introduced in his recent InfoQ article, he also discussed how complexity impacts a system’s understandability, and the benefits of live debugging tooling.
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Open Service Mesh: a Service Mesh Implementation from Microsoft
Microsoft has released open service mesh (OSM), an alpha service mesh implementation compliant with the SMI specification. OSM covers standard features of a service mesh like canary releases, secure communication, and application insights, similar to other service mesh implementations like Istio, Linkerd, or Consul. Additionally, the OSM team is in the process of donating the project to the CNCF.