December 2017
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Continuous Delivery and DevOps Special Report

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In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to Continuous Delivery and DevOps on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: https://www.infoq.com/continuous_delivery.
Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won't Work Here (presentations, Sep 17, 2017)
The Value of Logging within Cloud Native Applications: A Q&A with Kresten Krab (articles, Dec 04, 2017)
Bringing a DevOps Approach to Databases (news, Nov 02, 2017)
What Is Cloud-Native Data and Why Does It Matter? (articles, Nov 02, 2017)
The Industry Just Can't Decide about DevOps Teams (news, Oct 26, 2017)

How to build a CI/CD pipeline with Terraform

Join Fastly web performance and browser engineer Patrick Hamann — formerly of The Guardian and The Financial Times — as he walks you through creating a continuous deployment pipeline using Travis, Terraform, Fastly, and GitHub. Learn more.

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Why Isn't Lean/Agile/Scrum/DevOps The Way We All Work and What Comes Next? (presentations, Nov 17, 2017)
Zero to Production-Ready in Minutes (presentations, Sep 14, 2017)
Continuous Delivery of Telecom Software at Ericsson (news, Oct 12, 2017)
The Top 10 Adages in Continuous Deployment (articles, Sep 19, 2017)
How to Measure Continuous Delivery (news, Sep 21, 2017)

Monitoring Microservices - A Prediction for 2018

The monitoring and distributed tracing of microservices has been a recognised challenge for a number of years. Recently Péter Márton, CTO of RisingStack, has written an article on experiences with various approaches including the OpenTracing initiative and has some recommendations, example code and makes a prediction or two about the future.

IBM Introduces Open Liberty, an Open Source Runtime for Java Microservices

IBM recently introduced Open Liberty, an open source implementation of WebSphere Liberty that supports the latest Eclipse MicroProfile and Java EE APIs. Alasdair Nottingham, WebSphere and Liberty runtime architect at IBM, and Holly Cummins, technical lead of IBM’s Bluemix Garage London, spoke to InfoQ about Open Liberty.

6 Ways to Enhance your Microservices at the Edge

Read this technical brief to learn how you can use logic at the edge of the network — closer to users — to strengthen and support your microservices, ultimately helping you build a more resilient product for your customers. Download now.

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Azure Functions Now Support Java

At JavaOne, Microsoft announced that Azure Functions, which allows users to run small pieces of code in the cloud, support Java. This update adds to the number of supported languages for Azure Functions and makes Microsoft the second major cloud provider to introduce serverless Java support.

LinkedIn Develops MySQL Query Analyzer Tool

In order to optimise the performance of their MySQL instances, LinkedIn has created a Query Analyzer tool in order to analyze and tune expensive queries. It runs on the network layer, stores everything within a centralized server, and provides a UI for users to analyze metrics.

Building and Testing Kubernetes Applications Locally Using Telepresence

Developing microservices that will be deployed on a container scheduling platform presents new challenges for engineers, particularly in regards to building and testing services locally that require several dependencies. This news item examines the Telepresence tool, where developers work on their service locally but transparently integrate with other dependent services running in a remote cluster.

A 4-Step Guide to Building Continuous Security into Container Deployment

Containers face security risks at every stage, from building to shipping to the run-time production phases. Securing them requires a layered strategy throughout the stack and the deployment process.

The Five Steps to Building a Successful Private Cloud

Increased competition among public cloud vendors, territorial regulations, and business demands have all contributed to a rise in multi-cloud strategies. This article reviews techniques for success.

How to Make the Leap: Building Cloud-Ready Applications into the Architecture

How do you take all very different kinds of applications and make them ready for cloud? This article by Pete Johnson looks at cloud-ready criteria and strategies.

Defining Cloud Native: A Panel Discussion

What is "cloud-native", why should you care, and how can your team adopt this way of delivering software? InfoQ gathered three industry experts to debate the topic.

Understanding Cloud Native Infrastructure: Interview with Justin Garrison and Kris Nova

"Cloud Native Infrastructure "from O’Reilly Media is a collection of guidance about building and managing modern infrastructure. InfoQ reached out to the authors to learn more about their ideas.

Best practices for using the Vary Header

Vary is one of the most powerful HTTP response headers, enabling efficient objection compression, device detection, and more. Using it incorrectly, however, can have disastrous effects. Learn the best practices for using Vary, including use cases and code snippets for putting Vary to work. Learn More.

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Spotify Lessons: Learning to Let Go of Machines

James Wen tells the story of how Spotify’s infrastructure evolved and how this evolution changed the way that Spotify developers write code and the vast increase in iteration and shipping speed.

Removing Friction in the Developer Experience

Adrian Trenaman discusses how HBC Digital has applied a blend of microservice architecture, continuous deployment, cloud technology to make it easy to push code safely and operate it in production.

Crushing Tech Debt through Automation at Coinbase

Rob Witoff presents how Coinbase attacks tech debt, including deployments, testing, immutable + codified infrastructure, sharing his experience in rebuilding infrastructure from scratch in 24h.

Brownfields DevOps in Practice

Damian Brady discusses the DevOps culture from the point of view of a developer, including architectural changes, design techniques, deployment pipelines, and how to make large changes safely.

Hardware & Provisioning Engineering @Twitter

M. Singer and N. Johnson present the Provisioning Engineering system at Twitter, called Wilson, which together with Audubon is designed to handle every part of a server's lifecycle.
 

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