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...
View ArticleNvidia 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...
View ArticleCamunda 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...
View ArticleKubernetes 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...
View ArticleAnaconda’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,...
View ArticleMeet 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...
View ArticleSUSE 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...
View ArticleA 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,...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleQ&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...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleRed 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...
View ArticleInterview: 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...
View ArticleGitOps: ‘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...
View ArticleLessons 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...
View ArticleOpenStack 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...
View ArticleCanonical 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...
View ArticleCNCF 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleExtend 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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