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Nvidia Offers a Data Center Simulator for Training Self-Driving Automobiles

Earlier this month, an Uber self-driving car had accidentally struck and subsequently killed a woman crossing a road in Tempe Arizona. The accident was reportedly the first ever pedestrian death from...

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Nvidia Embraces Kubernetes for Scalable Deep Learning

GPU manufacturer Nvidia has put the open source Kubernetes container orchestration engine at the center of its strategy to bring machine learning to the enterprise. On stage, at Nvidia’s GPU Technology...

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Camunda Offers a Microservices Workflow Engine, Built on BPMN

Camunda co-founder Bernd Ruecker The challenge with microservices is that each one only keeps records of its own transactions (if it does this at all). If a service such as a web shopping cart, based...

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Kubernetes High Availability: No Single Point of Failure

One of the chief benefits of the Kubernetes open source container orchestration engine is how it brings greater reliability and stability to distributed applications, through the use of dynamic...

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Anaconda’s Python/R Distribution Sets the Stage for Scalable Machine Learning

When it comes to managing the development of machine learning models, git just doesn’t get it. This is the lesson learned by Max Humber, a data scientist with the Canadian finance company Wealthsimple,...

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Meet Gloo, the ‘Function Gateway’ That Unifies Legacy APIs, Microservices,...

Solo wants to unify all IT operations under a single common denominator, the function. With all an organization’s services, monolithic applications APIs, and serverless calls exposed as functions on...

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SUSE Cloud Application Platform Bundles Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry

Enterprise Linux distributor SUSE has bundled the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service software with the Kubernetes container orchestration engine, with the aim of providing an integrated package of...

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A Tip from Mechanical Engineering: Use Control Theory to Better Auto-Scale...

Want to more efficiently automate the scaling up and down of your IT systems? Take a close look at the traditional practice of control theory, advised Allan Espinosa, a DevOps engineer for Bloomberg,...

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Microsoft Azure Container Instances are Now Ready for Production Workloads

Previewed last year, Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances (ACI) is now ready for production usage, according to the company. Microsoft touts ACI as a “serverless” service, one that offers the...

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Q&A: Eventbrite’s Pat Poels on Building a Rapidly-Scalable Events-Driven...

Pat Poels winning large at the 2005 World Series of Poker (Flipchip / LasVegasVegas.com) Summer is almost here (at least for the northern hemisphere), and with the warm weather comes the festivals and...

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Google Launches gVisor, an Open Source Sandboxed Container Runtime

Following up on the immense success of the Kubernetes open source container orchestration engine, Google has launched another open source cloud-native software project, one designed to secure...

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Red Hat Releases a Framework to Easily Package Applications for Kubernetes

Open source enterprise software provider Red Hat has released a toolkit that makes it easy to build applications that can be managed by Kubernetes. Called the Operator Framework, it makes use of the...

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Interview: Google gVisor and the Challenge of Securing Multitenant Containers

Last week Google unveiled a new open source project, gVisor, a sandbox for securely running containers in multitenant environments. This approach, should it prove viable, could eliminate the cost of...

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GitOps: ‘Git Push’ All the Things

While the idea of cloud-native computing promises to change how modern IT operations work, the idea remains vague for many who work in the profession. “GitOps,” an idea that generated some buzz at the...

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Lessons in Thrift: How Facebook Keeps its Web Pages Snappy

With over 2.2 billion users worldwide, Facebook may very well be the most widely-used software platform on the planet. YouTube or Google still might generate more traffic, though neither of those sites...

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OpenStack Spins Off Zuul, a Gated CI Pipeline for Multiple Repositories

Continuous integration (CI) software originally developed to manage the massive multi-contributor OpenStack software platform has been updated to handle other complex collaborative software projects as...

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Canonical Shakes up the Market for OpenStack Distributions

The market for OpenStack distributions is ripe for some disruption and commodification, at least in the eyes of founder Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, who shook up the audience in a talk at the...

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CNCF Brings the Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes into the Fold

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation continues to expand its stack of open-source tools for running cloud-native computing operations. Thursday, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to...

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Microsoft to Acquire GitHub to Expand Developer Reach

In a move to solidify its presence in the development market, Microsoft is acquiring GitHub, the world’s largest online repository for open source software, for $7.5 billion. In a press briefing call...

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Extend Spinnaker Automated Delivery with Machine Learning and Custom Pipeline...

The open source Spinnaker is a continuous delivery tool originally developed by Netflix and Google, one that could be used to run a development pipeline for multiple cloud deployments. The software has...

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