Red Hat Buildah Provides a Way to Build Containers without the Docker Daemon
Red Hat wants to rid the daemons from the process of building containers. This week, the company has released the first production-ready version of its tool for building container images, called...
View ArticleNode.js Creator Blasts Node.js, Offers a Secure TypeScript-Based Alternative
Like Dr. Frankenstein aghast at the monster he’d built, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl voiced some deep misgivings about his server-side JavaScript runtime engine at the JSConf.EU conference earlier this...
View ArticleBallerina: An API-First Programming Language
Open source enterprise application integration software provider WSO2 has launched a programming language built around supporting application programming interfaces (APIs) as a first-class entity. The...
View ArticleDocker Enterprise Edition Offers Multicloud App Management
Docker has expanded its commercial container platform software, Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) to manage containerized applications across multiple cloud services. The idea with this release is to...
View ArticleKubeFlow: Manage AI Workflows with Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence may be at the peak of its hype cycle for modern businesses, but for the IT administrator, it is still a headache, requiring software and processes that may reside entirely...
View ArticleIBM ‘BlockDrop’ Research Speeds Neural Networks
IBM Research, with the help of the University of Texas Austin and the University of Maryland, has created a technology, called BlockDrop, that promises to speed convolutional neural network operations...
View ArticleHow Drone Solved ownCloud’s Continuous Integration Woes
Before adopting Drone, the cloud storage provider ownCloud was in the “dark ages” when it came to continuous integration and delivery, asserted Thomas Boerger, an ownCloud DevOps engineer. All too many...
View ArticleContainers for High Performance Computing
With a few adjustments to the technology, Docker containers could bring heretofore unseen efficiencies to supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC), so predicts Docker Technical Account...
View ArticleQ&A: Julia Grace, Slack’s Head of Infrastructure Engineering
Earlier this week, an international business holiday was almost declared as Slack unexpectedly went offline for a few hours. Organizations have become so dependent on the team chat messaging service...
View ArticleDebugging Microservices: Lessons from Google, Facebook, Lyft
It was about five years ago when Lyft engineers started seeing operational problems in its move to microservices. Services were getting increasingly difficult to troubleshoot and, as a result,...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Jib, Automated Container Packaging for Java Apps
Google has released software that could automate the packaging of a Java program so that it can be run in the cloud-native environment. Jib is an open-source Java “containerizer,” one that handles all...
View ArticleWSO2 Shrinks Integration Platform for Microservices Work
For the latest iteration of its enterprise application and data integration platform, WSO2 has created petite versions of all its components that can run smoothly in a microservices environment. Along...
View ArticleWSO2 CEO Tyler Jewell: Ballerina and the End of Middleware
It’s been a busy week for Tyler Jewell, the CEO of enterprise application (EA) integration provider WSO2. This is the week for WSO2’s user conference in San Francisco. WSO2 is a leading provider of...
View ArticleQ&A LinkedIn’s Nikolai Avteniev: Code Review in the Age of DevOps
Earlier this year, LinkedIn engineer Nikolai Avteniev gave a talk at the Software Craftsmanship conference in New York City about the modern code review process and how it’s practiced at LinkedIn. One...
View ArticleWith Knative, Google Brings Multicloud Serverless to the Enterprise
Google wants to make serverless computing easy enough for even the enterprise to use. This week, the company publicly unveiled a new project, called Knative, designed to allow organizations and service...
View ArticleGoogle Adds Machine Learning Modeling to BigQuery
In an attempt to make machine learning (ML) easier for both the developer and the data scientist, Google has added built-in machine learning modeling capabilities to its BigQuery serverless data...
View ArticleCNCF’s Cloud-Native Stack Gets a Private Container Registry from VMware
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has taken on VMware’s Harbor container registry as a Sandbox-level hosted project. Harbor is a registry for storing container images. For container management, the...
View ArticleIstio 1.0: Come for Traffic Routing, Stay for Distributed Tracing
While first-time users may be drawn to the Istio service mesh initially for the headaches it removes in traffic routing, they may later be pleased at discovering the software’s distributed tracing...
View ArticleOracle Extends ‘Autonomous’ Database to Transactional Work
Making a case for how relentless automation can save significant money for the enterprise, Oracle has extended its flagship database’s “autonomous” features to transactional processing. The...
View ArticleMicroservices Monitor Prometheus Emerges from CNCF Incubation
Software originally created by SoundCloud to monitor a complex set of dynamically-provisioned software services has graduated from an incubation program sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing...
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