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The State of Robotics - April 2020

So, we’ve passed the first quarter of 2020. What have we learned? You don’t need us to tell you that, but robots are still cool As usual, this State of Robotics post discusses work the Ubuntu robotics team has done this past April, and some interesting projects we’ve seen in the community. Unfortunately, we had a total of zero submissions to be included this month, hopefully not a sign of the times.

Delivering Successful Mission Outcomes in This New Normal

Is it week 6 or 8 of telework now? I can't keep up, and it's probably not worth counting anymore. By now, all agencies have a majority of their employees working remotely and adjusting to the new normal; and we, at Splunk, are as well. In a way — like our CIO, Steve McMahon, puts it — we did have an early start.

StackStorm v3.2.0 released

May 1, 2020 By Eugen Cusmaunsa (@armab) and @punkrokk It happened! After a long wait, we’re more than excited to announce the StackStorm v3.2.0 release. The StackStorm project has had some turbulent times since the previous release almost one year ago. The new v3.2.0 version is the first release since the project joined the Linux Foundation, formed new Governance, and gathered a new team of Maintainers. Considering the amount of changes happened, it looks like a big restart for the project.

HAProxyConf 2019 - RTL's Journey to Kubernetes with HAProxy with Vincent Gallissot

In 2018, we migrated several video-on-demand/replay platforms from on-premise to the AWS cloud. HAProxy was the key to this migration, allowing us to move safely and without any downtime. We’ll take a deep dive through the configuration used to secure our migration, highlighting aspects such as our use of the “observe layer7” keyword. I’ll also cover how we use GOReplay to replicate traffic and our use of the HAProxy Ingress Controller in front of our Kubernetes clusters.

Episode 17: User Sign Up and Simple Access Control

Request Metrics won’t be very successful if users can’t sign up! We recently completed cookie based user authentication and distributed session using Redis in ASP.NET Core but neglected initial sign up. Now we finally go back and write some boring forms and CRUD logic. A rich set of internal admin tools helps with customer support, system monitoring and visibility. We’ll start our suite of tools with a user admin page that lists all users in the system.

Free Go Module Vulnerability Scanning in Visual Studio Code

If you’re a Golang developer using Visual Studio Code, keeping at-risk Go Modules out of your apps just got easier, and for free. Today we’re announcing a new version of the JFrog extension for VS Code, available for free download. This integration brings live vulnerability information about every public Go Module you’re using directly into your source editor from the rich metadata of JFrog GoCenter.

Seven Serverless Champions You Should Start Following Today

There are so many early serverless adopters and pioneers who many of us in the community know well: AWS heroes, in-demand speakers, and celebrated community organizers with thousands of followers, popular Twitch channels, and full speaking dockets. It’s a fantastic idea to follow these folks because they are known for a reason.We cover them regularly at Stackery!

The SRE Dogfood Series: SignalFx SRE Team

Splunk is a tech company, which regularly gives us exposure to modern development practices, and the ability to implement them with our own technology. We want to share that with you. In this post, as part of a dogfooding series, I sat down with Ram Jothikumar, Head of Cloud Infrastructure & Operations for Observability at Splunk. Ram and I talk about how we support our SignalFx offering at scale, efficiently with resilience and reliability baked in.