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The Linux Foundation And IBM Announce New Open Source Projects to Promote Racial Justice
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced it will host seven projects from Call for Code for Racial Justice, an initiative driven by IBM and Creator David Clark Cause to urge the global developer ecosystem and open source community to contribute to solutions that can help confront racial inequalities. …

Embedding Source Code Version Information In Docker Images
Guest post originally published on Rookout’s blog by Josh Hendrick, Senior Solutions Engineer at Rookout As organizations place focus on innovation and digital transformation across enterprise IT, we continue to see increased adoption of containers and microservice application development patterns. Containers have brought developers new levels of flexibility and portability, but oftentimes still leave developers …

Saga Pattern: How To Manage Distributed Transactions With Microservices
In the context of microservices, one of the problems that we often encounter is the need to guarantee data consistency, updated in parallel by different actors. In this case, the Saga architectural pattern is becoming popular: let’s find out how it works and which problems it solves. Data Consistency: what is it and which problems …

Three Reasons Why You Need Volcano
Volcano is a Kubernetes native batch scheduling system. This open-source project is optimized for compute-intensive workloads, and is especially useful in sectors such as AI, big data, genomics, and rendering. Mainstream computing frameworks in these sectors can easily connect to Volcano to integrate high-performance job scheduling, heterogeneous chip management, and job management. Why do you …

Cloud Native Predictions For 2021 And Beyond
Cross-post from Chris Aniszczyk‘s personal blog I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break as the first couple weeks of January 2021 have been pretty wild, from insurrections to new COVID strains. In cloud native land, the CNCF recently released its annual report on all the work we accomplished last year. I recommend everyone take an opportunity …

An Introduction To Kubernetes Security Using Falco
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Frederick Fernando Let’s talk about Kubernetes security As Kubernetes continues to grow in adoption, it is important for us to know how to secure it. In a dynamic infrastructure platform such as Kubernetes, detecting and addressing threats is important but also challenging at the same time. Falco, …

Multicloud Kubernetes Management With Lens
Numerous reports have consistently shown that enterprises today embrace hybrid and multicloud as their preferred modes of IT infrastructure deployment. According to a survey done by IDG, more than half (55%) of organizations currently use multiple public clouds, with 21% saying they use three or more. As developers are becoming acclimated to building and shipping …

Accelerating Digital Transformation: What Every CEO Needs To Know About Software Delivery Automation
We have all heard the term “digital transformation,” and we often ask ourselves why many companies struggle to define it? What companies see, more often than not, is an agile transformation spurring a DevOps transformation (or some sort of technology transformation), which in turn spurs a digital transformation (DT). The DT becomes the all-encompassing term …

New Relic Signs Definitive Agreement To Acquire Pixie Labs, A Next Generation Machine Intelligence Observability Solution For Developers Using Kubernetes
New Relic, Inc., a leader in observability, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pixie Labs, a next generation machine intelligence observability solution for developers using Kubernetes. Pixie dramatically simplifies the process of troubleshooting and live debugging applications in Kubernetes environments by providing instant access to telemetry data without the need to manually …

How To Develop Microservices In Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on StackHawk’s blog by Zachary Conger, Senior DevOps Engineer at StackHawk Overview We love containers. At StackHawk we have always been fans of containers. From day one we made the decision to ship HawkScan (our application security scanning engine) as a container, and this is part of what makes it simple …