Amazon Web Services Takes on Kubernetes, Offers a Serverless Database Service
Following Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services today made the much-anticipated plunge into supporting the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Kubernetes open source...
View ArticleAmazon SageMaker Automates the Artificial Intelligence Development Pipeline
With the debut of Amazon SageMaker last week, Amazon Web Services has gone a long way towards incorporating machine learning into professional development and deployment pipelines. And a new video...
View ArticleCoreOS’s Open Cloud Services Could Bring Cloud Portability to...
With the release of Tectonic 1.8, CoreOS provides a way to easily deploy container-native applications as services, even across multiple service providers and in-house resources. “We take open source...
View ArticleNew Microsoft, Oracle Projects Bridge Kubernetes with Serverless Environments
At Kubecon 2017, held last week in Austin, both Microsoft and Oracle released new software to further integrate serverless capabilities into the Kubernetes open source container orchestration software,...
View ArticleBeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access
Today, none of Google’s employee-facing applications are on a virtual private network. They all have public IP addresses. The company feels this approach, which it has dubbed BeyondCorp, is the “new...
View ArticleIBM Delves into Serverless Function Orchestration with the Open Source...
As developers grow increasingly comfortable with using cloud-based serverless or “function-as-a-service” services, they may be finding that coordinating their collection of functions is, in itself, a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Expands the Kubernetes Toolset with the Virtual Kublet
Microsoft’s support of the open source Kubernetes container orchestration tool seems to grow by the day. At Kubecon 2017, held last year in Austin, we spoke with Microsoft Distinguished Engineer...
View ArticleJenkins-Based CloudBees Acquires Codeship to Fill Out CI/CD Portfolio
Looking to fill out its portfolio of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools and services, Jenkins-based provider CloudBees has acquired cloud-based CI/CD vendor Codeship, the two companies...
View ArticleCNCF’s Vitess Scales MySQL with the Help of Kubernetes
A technology developed by YouTube to shard large MySQL databases across multiple servers, Vitess, has become the 16th hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Vitess was created for...
View ArticleOracle Promises Self-Securing, Self-Repairing Autonomous Cloud Services
Oracle is promising to vastly simplify the management of cloud-native computing operations, debuting a number of self-managing, or autonomous, cloud services. The company has also unveiled a set of...
View ArticleThe RED Method: A New Approach to Monitoring Microservices
Monitoring microservices effectively still can be a challenge, as many of the traditional performance monitoring techniques are ill-suited for providing the required granularity of system performance....
View ArticleVMware Hires Serverless OpenFaaS Founder; Dell Shutters Its {code} Open...
Virtualization software giant VMware has hired Alex Ellis to work full-time on his project, the OpenFaaS serverless software, at the company. Previously, he created and worked OpenFaaS during his off...
View ArticleMesosphere’s Data Center Operating System Will Soon Offer a Managed Kubernetes
For the pending release of version 1.10 of the Data Center Operating System (DC/OS), Mesosphere is adding full support for Kubernetes, alongside its own container orchestration system Marathon. DC/OS...
View ArticleMicroservices: It’s All About the Events
Microservices appear to be the major topic of discussion at this year’s O’Reilly Software Architecture conference in New York, with developers and system designers in attendance curious as to how to...
View ArticleInstagram Supercharges Cassandra with a Pluggable RocksDB Storage Engine
To boost the performance of a mission-critical instance of Cassandra, Instagram engineers replaced the storage engine of this Java-based distributed open source database with a faster C++-based one...
View ArticleMesosphere 1.11 Focuses on Edge Computing, Multicloud and Disaster Recovery
When it comes to “edge computing,” one early adopter has been Royal Caribbean Cruises, which is currently outfitting its vacation ships to provide personalized customer services, with the help of new...
View ArticleAqua Extends Container Security Platform to Kubernetes, Cloud Services
Aqua Security has extended its container security platform to cover the Kubernetes open source container orchestration tool, as well as to third-party container-as-a-service cloud platforms, where...
View ArticleCloud Native Computing Foundation Welcomes the NATS Messaging Protocol into...
Continuing to fill out its portfolio of cloud-friendly infrastructure software, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted the NATS messaging software as an incubation-level hosted...
View ArticleThis Week on The New Stack: Microservices, Kubernetes Data, and SXSW
Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week’s hottest news in cloud-native technologies/at-scale application development and look ahead to topics we expect will gain...
View ArticleCNCF’s Vitess Scales MySQL with the Help of Kubernetes
A technology developed by YouTube to shard large MySQL databases across multiple servers, Vitess, has become the 16th hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Vitess was created for...
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