June 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/.
How the Financial Industry Is Doing DevOps (news, Jun 16, 2017)
Evolution of Deployment Architecture at Buzzfeed (news, Jun 16, 2017)
The AWS Greengrass Runs Lambda Functions on IoT Devices (news, Jun 08, 2017)
Implementing DevOps at Barclays, Allianz and Disney: DOES17 London Day One Keynotes (news, Jun 07, 2017)
Kiki Carter, Enterprise Architect at Lightbend, Speaks to InfoQ at ETE (news, Jun 07, 2017)

Java Performance: Top 10 Problems

As Java applications become more distributed and complex, finding and diagnosing performance issues becomes harder and harder. Download this eBook and learn how to troubleshoot and diagnose some of the most common performance issues in Java today. Download Now.

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Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level (articles, Apr 28, 2017)
Jenkins Gets a Facelift with Release of Blue Ocean 1.0 (news, Apr 25, 2017)
Microservices and Modularity (news, May 29, 2017)
The InfoQ eMag: Scaling DevOps (miniBooks, May 10, 2017)
Light at the End of the Long Tunnel for Java EE 8 (news, Apr 14, 2017)

Puppet Releases Its 2017 State of DevOps Report

The Puppet State of DevOps Report 2017 shows that high-performing IT teams are deploying more frequently and recovering faster. There is more focus on automation, with loosely coupled architectures and teams facilitating continuous delivery. Transformational leadership and lean product management practices are also key drivers behind high performing teams.

Stack Overflow Becomes HTTPS by Default

Nick Craver, architecture lead at StackOverflow, has published a blog announcing StackOverflow's migration to HTTPS. Some of the technical challenges along the way included supporting hundreds of domains, migrating URL’s, user generated content, and meeting the sites stringent performance requirements.

How to Overcome the Microservices Sprawl

The rise of microservices has accelerated the rate of new applications moving into production; however, most IT monitoring tools don’t provide enough visibility into the underlying containers. Learn how to improve DevOps visibility using a more holistic IT monitoring approach. Download the eBook.

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Ocado Technology Releases "Kubermesh", a Prototype Self-Provisioning Mesh Network Kubernetes Cluster

The Ocado Technology team has created Kubermesh, a prototype “bare-metal, self-hosted, self-healing, self-provisioning, partial-mesh network Kubernetes cluster”. Kubermesh can essentially be seen as the glue joining several technologies together to form a container deployment platform consisting of an OSPF3 partial-mesh network and a iPXE-booted self-installing Kubernetes deployment.

Atlassian Announces Bamboo 6.0 and Bitbucket Server 5.0

Atlassian annouced new versions of Bamboo and Bitbucket Server, two tools aimed to support DevOps in enterprises. New functionalities include configuration as code, enhanced build control, and build progress monitoring.

Building Starling Bank in the Cloud: Greg Hawkins Discusses Open Banking, DevOps and Hackathons

At QCon London, Greg Hawkins presented “Building and Trusting a Cloud Bank”in which he discussed how the Starling Bank team has created a UK Bank running on the AWS public cloud. InfoQ caught up with Hawkins at a recent StarlingDev Hackathon, and discussed Open Banking and PSD2, the challenges of legacy applications, and what the future holds for online banking.

Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes the Hard Way

Automating continuous delivery with Kubernetes requires a Single-Source-Of-Truth, and that rollbacks can be implemented efficiently without requiring new code changes to be pushed.

Examining the Internals of a Serverless Platform: Moving towards a ‘Zero-Friction’ PaaS

This article explores how serverless platforms are built, operated and leveraged for rapid application delivery. A conclusion of this work is that the space is ripe for innovation.

Troubleshooting Memory Issues in Java Applications

Troubleshooting Java memory problems can be tricky. In this article, we discuss the proper approach for locating them, and we take a look at a wide range of tools we can use to eradicate them.

Roundtable: The Role of Enterprise Architecture in a Cloudy World

Do enterprise architects still matter? Has a cloud-native development model fundamentally changed how we think about enterprise architecture? In this roundtable with architects, we discuss.

The Future of Serverless Compute

As Serverless approaches end of early-adopter phase, Mike Roberts puts on prediction goggles on where this movement is going next and what changes are needed from organizations to support it.

Top 6 Performance Challenges in Managing Microservices in a Hybrid Cloud

Microservices architectures can yield hundreds, or even thousands, of individual microservices, introducing new challenges in both deployment management and microservices performance. This paper reviews the six challenges and best practices in managing microservice performance. Download the Whitepaper.

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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.

Automating at a Higher Level with Atomist

Jessica Kerr demonstrates the standard Atomist coordination and automation tools, plus how to program instant automation for a code and team.

Continuous Delivery the Hard Way with Kubernetes

Luke Marsden assembles a CI/CD pipeline from scratch to Kubernetes using GitLab CE as an example. The talk is mostly demos.

Scio: Moving Big Data to Google Cloud, a Spotify Story

Neville Li and Igor Maravić cover the evolution of Spotify’s event delivery system, discussing lessons learned moving it into the cloud using Scio, a high level Scala API for the Dataflow SDK.

Dev to Prod in Five Minutes: Is Your Company Ready?

Carlos Leon gives first-hand practical advice for adopting containers and the changes required, and talks about the technical and cultural changes needed to move at the pace containers can offer.
 

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