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Microsoft Introduces Azure Availability Zones, Completes MAREA Transatlantic Connection
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the expansion of High Availability (HA) and resiliency options for customers. The update comes in the form of Azure Availability Zones which increase the availability of certain Azure services within a specific region by providing complete redundancy and isolation of the infrastructure. Azure Availability Zones include a financially-backed SLA of 99.99%.
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Mesosphere Launches Kubernetes on DC/OS 1.10
Mesosphere, the commercial implementation of Apache Mesos, announced that they are offering beta support for Kubernetes on top of their cluster management platform.
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Apple Details Face ID Security
Apple has described how Face ID works and how it guarantees security in a new white paper.
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Oracle Consolidates the OpenJDK 10 Repository Forest
Joe Darcy, technical lead for infrastructure in JDK at Oracle, has announced the consolidation of repositories for OpenJDK 10. The move aims to reduce the overhead of managing the forest of repositories that OpenJDK was hitherto split into. OpenJDK 9 and the previous will remain a forest, reason for which tools have been created to move changes across consolidated and unconsolidated versions.
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Agile at LEGO
Agile has been part of LEGO for more than a decade, but it is still spreading seeds and finding applications in business areas outside digital and IT. Some of LEGO's core values are play and learning which resonate very well with the agile principle of iterations, experimentation, and retrospectives.
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McKinsey Report on Diversity Summarized
McKinsey's report, "Diversity Matters," was published in 2015, but in light of the growing discussion on diversity in the IT industry, a summary of the results will prove helpful to many.
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New Relic Releases El Dorado UI, a Web App for Visualizing a Neo4j Graph Database
New Relic open sourced the El Dorado UI project, a Sinatra app to query and visualize relationships between development teams, projects, and microservices, all stored in a Neo4J graph database. Ward Cunningham, the inventor of Wiki, described the origin of the project and demonstrated its capabilities at the Explore DDD conference in Denver, Colorado.
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Google Open Sources Abseil, a Collection of C++ and Python Utilities
Google has made available a number of C++ libraries they use internally for many of their projects. Python ones are to follow soon.
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RedHat Announces Support for Azure, .Net Core 2.0 and SQL Server 2017
Microsoft and RedHat recently announced support for Windows Containers in Red Hat OpenShift. The main scenario this announcement targets is to make Linux and Windows containers work in the same cluster. This enables enterprises with mixed environments to migrate towards a container based infrastructure without needing separate clusters for Windows and Linux.
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Q&A with Sanjeev Sharma on His DevOpsDays NZ Keynote
Raf Gemmail speaks with IBM's Sanjeev Sharma about his upcoming DevOpsDays NZ closing keynote on the DevOps and SRE lessons we can learn from Apollo 13.
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Facebook Releases React 16
Facebook has released version 16 of React, adding some welcome features and performance improvements. The only difference this time around is that they completely rewrote React.
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Brian Goetz Speaks to InfoQ on Pattern Matching for Java
Brian Goetz and Gavin Bierman of Oracle introduce the concept of pattern matching for potential integration into the Java programming language. By starting from common Java source code idioms that are verbose or error prone, they explore how pattern matching may eliminate some of the pitfalls.
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Google Cloud and HashiCorp Expand Collaboration
As part of a wider engagement with the open source community, Google has announced increased collaboration with HashiCorp. The result of this is improved Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specific functionality for Terraform, the infrastructure-as-code cloud provisioning tool, and Vault, the secret management tool.
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Q&A with Alison Polton-Simon on Her 'Metrics That Matter’ Talk for DevOpsDays NZ
Raf Gemmail talks with ThoughtWorks’ Alison Polton-Simon about her DevOpsDaysNZ talk on metrics which teams should be measuring.
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Facebook to Relicense React under MIT
Facebook has decided to change the React license from BSD+Patents to MIT to make it possible for companies to include React in Apache projects, and to avoid an uncertain relationship with the open source community.