November 2017
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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 DevOps on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: https://www.infoq.com/devops/.
Bringing a DevOps Approach to Databases (news, Nov 02, 2017)
What Is Cloud-native Data and Why Does It Matter? (articles, Nov 02, 2017)
How to Make the Leap: Building Cloud-Ready Applications into the Architecture (articles, Oct 27, 2017)
The Industry Just Can't Decide about DevOps Teams (news, Oct 26, 2017)
Defining Cloud Native: A Panel Discussion (articles, Oct 20, 2017)

Performance Testing and APM in the AWS Cloud

Download this eBook and learn about the cloud’s impact on environment provisioning, APM, and performance testing; prerequisites needed for performance testing in the AWS Cloud; how to identify and leverage APM’s full potential in the AWS Cloud, and more. Download Now.

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Architecture Patterns for Microservices in Kubernetes (presentations, Jul 05, 2017)
Merging Agile and DevOps (articles, Aug 30, 2017)
How Facebook Achieves Rapid Release at Massive Scale (news, Sep 07, 2017)
A Series of Unfortunate Container Events at Netflix: Andrew Spyker and Amit Joshi at QCon NYC (news, Jul 02, 2017)
Serverless Design Patterns with AWS Lambda: Big Data with Little Effort (presentations, Jul 29, 2017)

Long Awaited Java 9.0 Releasing This Week

The long awaited Java SE 9.0 is releasing on September 21, 2017, and with it come some major changes, notably Java Platform Modules.

The Difference between SOA and Microservices?

RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady has entered the debate on SOA versus microservices and agrees with many others that the size of a service is neither a necessary nor sufficient differentiation.

Good Migrations: 5 Steps to Successful Cloud Migration

Many IT leaders struggle to design an effective migration strategy. Download this eBook to learn which migration path is best suited to your business needs, how to boost application performance and minimize costs, and how to set measurable goals and demonstrate value. Download now.

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A Comparison of Mapping Approaches for Distributed Cloud Applications

An application map is a topology view of the components of a distributed application and the network or interprocess interactions between them. A recent article gives an overview of application mapping approaches adopted by various tools like AppDynamics, OpenTracing and Netsil.

Spring Boot 2.0 Will Feature Improved Actuator Endpoints

The upcoming release of Spring Boot 2.0.0 M4 will feature an improved actuator endpoint infrastructure featuring new mapping, easier creation of user-defined endpoints, and improved security. Stéphane Nicoll, principal software engineer at Pivotal, spoke to InfoQ about these actuator endpoints.

Spring Framework 5.0 Released

Spring Framework 5.0, featuring a new reactive web framework, was released on September 28, 2017. With this release, Spring 5.0 has its entire codebase based on Java 8 source code level. Spring 5.0 is compatible with JDK 9 for development and deployment.

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.

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.

The Top 10 Adages in Continuous Deployment

On the basis of discussions at the Continuous Deployment Summit, researchers derived 10 adages about continuous-deployment practices.

Automated Journey Testing with Cascade

Starting with a brief history of software testing, we investigate Cascade, a new framework for testing “journeys”, eliminating overlapping coverage to produce fast unit tests.

What .NET Developers Need to Know About Azure

The cloud solution you choose can have a substantial impact on your .NET development life cycle. Download this eBook to learn about differences between Azure and other cloud solutions as well as innovations - like AppDynamics support - that are attracting .NET developers to Azure. Download now.

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Scaling Instagram Infrastructure

Lisa Guo overviews Instagram's infrastructure, its history, multi-data center support, tuning uwsgi parameters for scaling, performance monitoring and diagnosis, and Django/Python upgrade.

Zero to Production-Ready in Minutes

Tim Bozarth shares how Netflix is enabling engineers to go from "zero" to "production ready" in minutes - incorporating best-practices learned through years in the cloud.

Big Ideas: Decentralized Storage

David Vorick talks about the need for distributed/decentralized storage, real life use cases for distributed storage systems, dealing with data loss in a distributed system, overviewing IPFS and Sia.

Distributed Scheduler Hell

Matthew Campbell offers tips and tricks choosing between different container schedulers -Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Nomad, manual - for different applications/microservices.

A Series of Unfortunate Container Events @Netflix

Amit Joshi and Andrew Spyker talk about Project Titus, Netflix's container runtime on top of Amazon EC2.
 

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