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HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: The First Fully Managed Consul Offering
During the HashiConf keynote, HashiCorp announced HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. Consequently, customers can now provision HCS natively through the Azure Marketplace directly into their Azure subscription, while HashiCorp takes care of maintenance and operations of the service.
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Leadership in an Agile Environment
We would like agile leaders to stop being in the fire fighting mode. They should be there to help and empower, instead of taking over, argued Leonoor Koomen at Experience Agile 2019. She suggested replacing traffic light reporting with Obeya and showed leaders how they can focus on the deltas instead of covering and wanting to know everything.
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CircleCI Adds New Sumo Logic Integration to Provide Build Pipeline Analytics
CircleCI and Sumo Logic have released an integration to allow developers to view analytical data about CircleCI jobs from within a Sumo Logic dashboard. This integration is packaged using the CircleCI package management solution, Orbs. The integration includes real-time pipeline data such as number of failed builds, average run time, and job status.
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Microsoft Releases C# 8.0
Last week Microsoft announced the official availability of C# 8.0 as part of the .NET Core 3.0 release, simultaneously at .NET Conf 2019 and on their development blog. The new language features include nullable reference types, asynchronous streams, default interface members, and new code patterns. All new features are supported in Visual Studio 2019.
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Gremlin Introduces Scenarios, Enabling Real-World Chaos Experiments
The Gremlin team announced the addition of Scenarios that allow for simulation of real-world outages. Scenarios allow for planning and tracking complex chaos experiments that more closely mimic a real-world outages. The release includes prepared Scenarios that can be run out of the box or used as a starting template to build custom incidents.
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Day Two Problems When Using CQRS and Event Sourcing
There are a lot of good reasons for building a CQRS and event-sourcing based system, but there are also problems that appear only after an application is in production. In a presentation at the recent Event-driven Microservices Conference held by AxonIQ, Joris Kuipers shared his experience running and evolving CQRS and event sourced applications in production.
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Helm as a Package Manager for Kubernetes: Q&A with Helm Founder Matt Butcher
InfoQ caught up with Matt Butcher, the organizer for the Helm Summit in Amsterdam, and explored Helm's growth and its roadmap. He talked about the history of Helm, how its design was influenced by other package managers, how it's helping the Kubernetes community, its tremendous growth, and some of the security challenges being resolved.
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Amazon Updates S3 Service with Same-Region Replication
Recently, Amazon introduced a new option to its cloud storage service S3 - Same Region Replication (SRR). With this new option in S3, customers can now create a replica of their uploaded data in the same region yet in a different S3 bucket.
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Extend Azure PaaS Resources to Your Network Using Azure Private Link
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new preview service, called Azure Private Link, which provides organizations the ability to connect to Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, or their own services, using a private IP address. Azure Private Link connections travel over Microsoft’s backbone network and avoid exposure from the public internet.
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Vue 2 vs. Vue 3: James Stewart at Vue Glasgow Meetup
James Stewart recently compared the incoming Vue 3 function-based Composition API to the current Vue 2.x class-based Options API. In a presentation held at the second Vue.js Glasgow meetup event, Stewart analyzed the code from the same application written with both APIs, and concluded that the Vue 3 API leads to better code structuring, and makes the isolation and composition of logic easier.
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Managing Global CDN Operations at Netflix
At the recent Strange Loop conference, Robert Fernandes, engineering manager at Netflix, who leads the Open Connect Tools team, gave a talk on how they manage operations for Netflix’s in-house OpenConnect content delivery network (CDN).
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Microsoft .NET Conf 2019: .NET Core 3.0, C# 8.0, F# 4.7, and Machine Learning
At the 2019 edition of .NET Conf, streamed online earlier this week, Microsoft announced several new features for the .NET ecosystem. .NET Core, ASP.NET, and EF Core 3.0 were released, together with C# 8.0 and F# 4.7. The new releases have a considerable impact on how Windows Desktop, Web, and Mobile applications are developed. New features and tools for Visual Studio 2019 were also showcased.
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Spotting and Calling Out Micro-Inequities
Micro inequities, small events based on subtle unintentional biases, are pervasive and can lead to discriminatory behaviour, both negative and positive, argued Coral Movasseli in her session at Women in Tech Dublin 2019. The good news is that behaviour containing micro-inequities is malleable through counter-stereotypic training, intergroup contact, and by taking the perspective of others.
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Storybook 5.2 Improves Design System Documentation
The recent Storybook 5.2 release delivers a new approach for generating design system documentation. Storybook 5.2 streamlines component documentation to make best practice documentation easier for anyone creating Storybook projects.
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Design and Implementation of a DDD-Based Modular Monolith
Kamil Grzybek recently published a project where he has designed, implemented, and in detail described a monolithic application with a Domain-Driven Design (DDD) approach. His goal is to show how a monolithic application can be designed and implemented in a modular way. He also discusses some architectural considerations and design patterns he has found useful in the application.