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Ecosystem services benefits from the restoration of non-producing US oil and gas lands
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DockerCon Europe Redux
This episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast was recorded in the NEMO Science Center in Amsterdam at the conclusion of DockerCon Europe 2014. Co-host Michael Coté reflects on the conference and ponders the Docker juggernaut with The New Stack founder Alex Williams. For more episodes, check out the podcast section of The New Stack. “It seems like it’s moving even faster,” says Alex. Michael wonders how does one measure the success of Docker? Total number of individual contributors and partners?
DigitalOcean Launches Block Storage Service for Storage-Hungry Cloud Users
Responding from strong customer demand, DigitalOcean is expanding its range of cloud infrastructure services by adding a new block storage offering. The service will use solid state drives (SSD), and will cost $0.10/GB per month, with no additional costs for data ingest or egress. The block storage will be accessible through DigitalOcean droplets, the OS-based virtual machines that are the company’s core offering. Each SSD volume can hold between 1GB and 16TB.
How to Fight Latency: The Killer of Apps
For any cloud-based application provider, time is money, and for the user, added time generates frustration, degrading the quality of experience. Across the global internet, an increasing number of services are delivered remotely over the public cloud, and the latency of the interaction can make the difference between financial success and failure. It is commonly understood that TCP performance drops as latency increases, and any packet loss, however small, compounds this.
Tutorial: How Cloudsoft AMP Pro Easily Auto-Scales Apps on Apache Mesos - The New Stack
Scott Hartzel Scott Hartzel has been bringing people, processes and technology together to build and maintain infrastructure at scale for more than 15 years. He's currently Director of Product for Cloudsoft. The following post originally appeared on the Cloudsoft blog.
SAP Unveils HANA's Full-Featured Node.JS Integration
SAP invested an intensive year’s worth of development went into preparing a version of Node.js server-side JavaScript runtime for the company’s high-performance application server, according to SAP‘s HANA Product Management Director Thomas Jung, who joined Alex Williams for this 80th installment of The New Stack Analysts podcast. “We have a product installer built around it.
JavaScript 6 Offers Big Changes, and Kicks Off an Expedited Timetable - The New Stack
The language we build the Web with can officially develop as fast as the Web does. Twenty years after the first version of JavaScript and six years after the last update to the official ECMAScript standard it’s developed into, we’re finally getting a new version of JavaScript/ECMAScript. ES2015 is the largest ever update to JavaScript.
Cloudsoft, InContinuum Team to offer Autonomous Multi-Cloud Computing
The strategic partnership between Cloudsoft and InContinuum that was announced recently at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas provides the context for this 79th episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
The New Stack @ Scale Podcast: APIs Alone Do Not Tear Down the Silo
“For a lot of people, what’s been missing in most companies or organizations is when you build an application, especially an application meant for internal delivery [is] documentation,” observed Kelsey Hightower, who is the staff developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform, in this sixth episode of The New Stack @ Scale, our monthly podcast examining the various issues accompanying dynamic services and systems.
CloudBees Offers Self-Service Jenkins for Private, Dedicated Clouds
To support fast-moving DevOps initiatives, CloudBees has added a “Private Software-as-a-Service Edition” to its stable of products offering enterprise-grade Jenkins, an open source development automation tool. For the organization, the software will provide an easy way for development teams to spin up a copy of Jenkins to manage their projects in a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline, without waiting on system administrators to provision the software first.
Managing the New Complexity
Overlooked in the emergence of the DevOps practice is the fact that the techniques that prefigured the new role of DevOps have evolved due to changes in the nature of the infrastructure under management. Once a passive participant, infrastructure has now become a full partner in the creative process. Virtual machines, containers, services, and physical hosts come into existence on-demand and persist only as long as they are required.
Allstate Speeds into the DevOps Fast Lane with Cloud Foundry Deployment
“One thing that you learn quickly when you implement a platform like Cloud Foundry is: all of a sudden you’ve made one portion of your delivery pipeline really, really fast,” said Matt Curry, director of cloud engineering at Allstate. In this 78th episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Curry talked to TNS’s Alex Williams and Benjamin Ball about the eminent insurance company’s journey into continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development using Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
How Egnyte Routes around Internet Congestion by Using Teridion
As a provider of enterprise file sharing services, Egnyte is always looking to minimize network performance issues on behalf of its clients trying to work in the cloud with offices spread across the globe. The company sought out Teridion, which offers Internet traffic optimization services. “This is a new, congested world,” said Lahiri, “and assuming that everybody in the world has the same level of access to the Internet is completely incorrect.
Building a Platform for Continuous Innovation with Cloud Foundry
From programming languages and frameworks, to components with bridge functionality, “there is so much innovation happening,” according to Sanjay Patil, senior director of industry standards and open source at SAP, who spoke with The New Stack’s Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research for this 76th edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Dynamics in the market have led to continually changing business requirements, said Patil.
The New Stack @ Scale Podcast: How to Scale Beyond Your First 50,000 Users
“Most of your bottlenecks, especially at the beginning levels of a small website, a startup, are at the SQL database level,” relates Tung Nguyen, vice president of engineering for the Bleacher Report sports Web site. In the fifth episode of The New Stack @ Scale, we hear about Bleacher Report’s incredible journey from outgrowing “awful” blog software running on a single VM, to becoming a leading sports-oriented digital property that brings in more than 80 million unique viewers per month.
Docker Buys Unikernel Systems, Plans to Mainstream Virtual Library OSes
Docker has purchased the Unikernel Systems, a Cambridge, U.K. start-up specializing in unikernel development, Docker announced Thursday. The purchase will help Docker expand the range of virtualization technologies if offers the enterprise can use, in effect turning Docker into a platform for running a wide range of workloads, not just container-based workloads.
NGINX Plus R8 Fully Supports HTTP/2, Field Tests OAuth2
Fracturing a site’s contents into a plurality of arbitrary domains to improve performance is still being taught as a legitimate practice for Web servers. It remains the best way to get around HTTP 1.1’s maximum limitation of six connections per host, and the, even more, draconian limit of two connections for older browsers such as Internet Explorer 7.
Yelp Releases an Initialization System for Docker Containers
Yelp, an early adopter of Linux containers, has released an initialization system that runs inside of Docker containers, called dumb-init, designed to eliminate signaling issues that can spawn zombie processes. The company is in the process of moving individual commands into containers so they can slowly migrate tools and infrastructure without disrupting current workflow.
Ken Owens, Cisco: Microservices Frameworks for Handling Complexity at Scale
Containers and microservices “has allowed the developer and the infrastructure teams to work closer together to create a joint solution that runs in their internal development environments, and runs in the test and QA and production environments in the same manner that developers test it against,” explained Ken Owens, the chief technical officer of Cisco’s Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS), in an interview for The New Stack.
Video: How Developers Can Use Pivotal's Cloud Foundry Stack
Yesterday, we provided a high-level overview of how cloud services could be architected using Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry, which is open source software for running platform services. In this new edition, Pivotal principal technologist Casey West discusses how Cloud Foundry can be used by developers in a day-to-day basis. He walks us through the process deploying Docker in Cloud Foundry, and for those Perl fans out there, West finishes this video with a little surprise.
Andrew Hately and Jason McGee, IBM: The Evolution of Architectures at Container-Scale
In these two podcasts, we hear from IBM thought leaders Jason McGee and Andrew Hately. Through these interviews, conducted at Dockercon EU by The New Stack founder Alex Williams, we learn about the performance of open source communities, the evolution of application lifecycle management, and the shift to scale. McGee reflected on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) movement, and efforts to decompose the monolith.
Welcome to the Age of Node.js-Based Cross-Platform Malware
Given the versatility of the Node.js, it would only be a matter of time before the JavaScript runtime would be deployed for nefarious purposes. And so it has come to pass. Last weekend, details surfaced of new ransomware built on Node.js, called Ransom32.
Keeping Node Weird in Portland
It was a grey drizzly day in December, and the New Stack founder Alex Williams, his forehead nuzzled into his trademark journo-fedora in an effort to escape the harsh florescent lights, slipped quickly through the glass doors of the Hilton, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of staticky dust from the light-rail-inlaid streets of Portland, Oregon entering along with him.
The Year Ahead: Node.JS and all the Internet Things
The year 2015 was an extremely good one for the Node.js server-side JavaScript run-time. The open source technology has gotten some formal governance, reunited with a forked version of itself, and continued to work its way into both the enterprise and Web-scale companies, even as the supportive tooling is still being built and released.
More Node.js Tooling for the Enterprise, Please
Is Node.js destined to fail in the enterprise, or is it a perfect success just the way it is? This is one of the false dichotomies which The New Stack was privileged to help dispel at Node.js Interactive during a short stack with a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Founder Alex Williams.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Seeks Clarity for a World of Container Confusion
If you believe Bryan Cantrill, CTO at Joyent, we’ve yet to reach the peak of confusion about containers. “Everyone I talked to said, ‘We’re not even close.’ Confusion is accelerating and is actually pretty overwhelming for a lot of folks,” he said about attending KubeCon last month. “I think it’s being exacerbated a little bit by people feeling like it’s a land grab. Vendors are announcing things that are still being made … It’s like the repo is 25 minutes old and hasn’t had any commits.
Puppet Labs Automates Kubernetes for DevOps
So much can change in a year, even for the enterprise. Back in February, Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies told The New Stack that he believed the rapid adoption of Docker in the enterprise was essentially an illusion. “No technology spreads through the enterprise that quickly. I don’t care how awesome it is,” said Kanies.
The New Stack @ Scale Podcast: The Boundaries of Container Security
In this fourth episode of The New Stack @ Scale podcast, our monthly program sponsored by New Relic that explores the variety of issues that accompany dynamic services and systems, The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Fredric Paul, New Relic’s Editor-in-Chief, were joined by two guests to discuss container security in the new frontier of scaled-out architectures.
Rise of the Machines: Apache Brooklyn and Autonomous Computing
The Apache Software Foundation recently announced that Apache Brooklyn, an infrastructure-agnostic application management platform, has recently graduated from the Apache Incubator and is now a top-level project. The graduation speaks to the growing relevance of application portability and the health of those applications across multiple data centers.
TNS Analysts: A Short Stack o' Controversy at the Tectonic 2015 Summit
Day two of the Tectonic 2015 Summit kicked off with New York City short stacks (three varieties!) and a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Managing Editor Joab Jackson, with support from The New Stack’s Technical Editor & Producer Benjamin Ball and contributor Lawrence Hecht.
TNS Analysts: Hacktoberfest 2015
“And there they stand — miles of them — leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?” Call it another overwhelming indication of the power and potential of open source.
TNS Analysts: Talking OpenShift and Schedulers at KubeCon 2015
In San Francisco did KubeCon at the stately Palace Hotel convene, and in the closing hours there, The New Stack founder Alex Williams teamed with conference organizer Patrick Reilley, and also Martin Klaus and Grant Shipley of Red Hat, to record this edition of The New Stack Analysts. The group discussed the diversity of schedulers, and the standardization choices facing enterprises, and also Red Hat’s recent achievements with OpenShift, which had just seen its 3.1 release.
Perl is Back and Ready to Roll with Big Data
This month will see the launch of Perl 6 — the long-awaited release of a brand new language that’s been more than 15 years in the making. But it’s billed as a “sister language” to the 28-year-old Perl, which is also still being actively developed — separately, as a distinct language. This strange moment in time finds both Perl communities going strong, writing new Perl code for Hadoop and Docker applications as we creep up on Perl’s fourth decade.
Varnish Delves into Microservice Monitoring with Zipnish
Hoping to establish its place in the emerging world of microservices, Varnish Software has released a monitoring tool to help run speedy microservices-based workloads using its namesake caching-server software. The software, called Zipnish, provides the administrator with a set of waterfall-styled diagrams that vastly simplify the process of pinpointing of sluggish or non-operational microservices. It could work with stateless services, or those that run in containers.
TNS Analysts: Container Security at DockerCon EU
DockerConEU 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, kicked off with a podcast session hosted by The New Stack’s Alex Williams, recorded live for this 65th edition of The New Stack Analysts. This time, waffles — not short stacks — were on the menu, but no one was heard to complain, because of Barcelona.
How Vagrant Eases Software Research and Testing
I was introduced to Vagrant, software offered by Hashicorp for setting up development environments, earlier this year by a labmate, who gave me some sane advice for generating reproducible experiments in our research.
Tectonic Summit: Kubernetes for the Enterprise
While much of the discussion thus far around the Google Kubernetes’ software has been around the technology itself, there are still many unanswered questions around how enterprises could use Kubernetes to run their IT operations more effectively. Answering this need is the mission of behind CoreOS’ Tectonic Summit, taking place next week in New York. CoreOS’ itself offers a commercial distribution of Kubernetes called Tectonic.
Developing an Enterprise Strategy for the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) will extend the enterprise into some unusual locations, such as to the farm. At the IoT New Zealand conference in Auckland New Zealand last week, a company called FarmIQ discussed how its systems can help farmers better track their cattle, namely by embedding the sensors within the cows themselves.
The New Stack @ Scale Show 3: Monitoring and Containers
We proudly present the third episode of The New Stack @ Scale podcast, our monthly program that explores the issues that come with dynamic services and systems. In this edition, recorded during New Relic’s FutureStack15 User Conference, The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-anchor Fredric Paul, New Relic’s Editor-in-Chief, were joined by three guests to discuss the issues around scale and monitoring, with a focus on Docker and containers.
TNS Analysts Show 64: Object-Oriented Reality
Attendees at Basho Technologies’ RICON 2015 conference were treated to plentiful discussion of distributed systems as regards the Internet of Things (IoT). The audience also enjoyed a tasty short stack as The New Stack’s Alex Williams moderated the esteemed panel. The audio for this episode of The New Stack Analysts comes courtesy of Basho’s video of the event, which can be seen on the RICON 2015 YouTube playlist.
TNS Analysts Show 62: Self-Disruption at HashiConf 2015
Hashicorp held its first ever user conference, HashiConf 2015, in Portland, Oregon, in September, and it sold out in six weeks. “It worked out really well,” said Mitchell Hashimoto, who founded the company, which offers tools to manage data center operations.
OpenStack's Future Sparks Frank Debate at Tokyo Summit
Should OpenStack be a platform dedicated to running cloud-native operations, or should it focus on hosting traditional enterprises applications? Could it be a cloud platform to meet all needs? Or should it specialize, carving its own spot in the cloud marketplace? These are the tough questions being confronted this week by participants at the Tokyo OpenStack summit. The Summit has a reputation for open-mindedness and restrained skepticism.
TNS Makers: Kelsey Hightower on OpenStack's Evolution and Intel's Clear Containers
Ideally, the cloud is for everyone — offering a set of APIs for accomplishing what you want with the underlying compute, whether you’re a cloud provider, or running your own data centers. This is the world that OpenStack’s mission hints at, and for Kelsey Hightower, a core Kubernetes contributor, it’s a world that he sees drawing closer, thanks to Intel’s recently launched Clear Containers initiative.
Welcome to Our eBook: The Docker and Container Ecosystem
Welcome to the first ebook of our five part series about Docker and the container ecosystem. Here’s the download page. In this ebook we have included — in its more than 120 pages — a general overview about the significance of the Docker and container movement and the changes it forces for how applications are developed and managed at scale. The ebook has 12 chapters and a directory of more than 160 companies and products.
The New Stack @ Scale, Show 2: Managing Complexity and Battlestar Galactica
Welcome to the second episode of The New Stack @ Scale podcast, our new, monthly program sponsored by New Relic that explores the issues that come with dynamic services and systems. Recorded at AWS re:Invent, The New Stack founder Alex Williams was joined by co-anchor Fredric Paul, a long-time journalist himself and New Relic’s Editor-in-Chief.
TNS Analysts Show 60: NetflixOSS, Groovy and Grails, and All Things Cloud Native at SpringOne 2GX
A variety of conversation topics and a whole lotta short stacks were served to the huge crowd who turned out for The New Stack’s pancake breakfast at the SpringOne 2GX conference in Washington, D.C. For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded live at the event, Alex Williams spoke with Jon Schneider and Taylor Wicksell, senior software engineers at Netflix; Groovy programming language project lead Guillaume LaForge, and Graeme Rocher, Grails project lead at OCI; and James...
TNS Analysts Show 58: Programmable Infrastructure is Developer Driven
The New Stack’s pancake breakfast and podcast circuit joined the Software Circus last week at the Amsterdam Roest.
Release 7 of NGINX Plus and the Implications for Microservices Architectures
Release 7 of NGINX Plus, the web services gateway, puts into place a component that may prove to be critical to the advancement of both microservices architectures and the Internet of Things. Software developers are enamored with the possibilities opened up by the advent of microservices architectures.
TNS Analysts Show 57: The OpenStack Conversation Turns to Containers and Orchestration
In recent months, the conversation about OpenStack has turned to Docker and container orchestration. There are good reasons why. The container movement has gained so much momentum that the developer interest behind it is leading to questions about how OpenStack fits into an app development context.
A New Podcast From TNS All About Scaling Dynamic Services and Systems
The New Stack is delighted to share the inaugural episode of The New Stack @ Scale podcast. This new, monthly program, sponsored by New Relic, will explore cloud-native architectures, and will help us understand how to manage complexity in distributed, scaled-out environments. Naturally, this involves venturing deep into monitoring, analytics and open source, all beckoning toward a future of transparency between platforms and the infrastructure itself.
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