Part I covered our team culture which applies to many different types of work and teams. This part will cover our software engineering best practices that help us stabilize Marathon. Marathon is written in Scala and makes heavy use of Akka Actors and Streams. I probably don’t have to mention that Scala’s type system and its immutable data structures avoid a lot of bugs before we even run unit tests.
This is a review of the last three years that we spent stabilizing Marathon. Marathon is the central workload scheduler in DC/OS. Most of the time when you launch an app or a service on DC/OS, it is Marathon that starts it on top of Apache Mesos. Mesos manages the compute and storage resources and Marathon orchestrates the workload. We sometimes dub it the “init.d of DC/OS”. Being such an integral part of DC/OS, we must ensure that it keeps functioning.
Today we made Konvoy 1.5 and Kommander 1.1 generally available. In January, D2iQ defined a 12 month roadmap for Kommander and Konvoy. With these newest releases focused on the Single Enterprise Experience, that mission is halfway complete. Here are some of the highlights of the latest releases.
Today’s leading companies are one step ahead of their competitors as they adopt new tools and disciplines emerging from the cloud native landscape. That was the case for Ziff Media Group, which is a collection of several media web properties including pcmag.com, mashable.com, deals.com, offers.com, and more.
We’re excited to announce that the KUDO ( Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator) project is now officially accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project. This was the culmination of two years of hard work from the team and is a fantastic step forward for the project.
Machine learning is the power cable for your business. Without it, your data center is a museum of hard drives. While machine learning can supercharge data-driven businesses, it requires both expertise and a complex suite of technologies to make it work. D2iQ’s KUDO for Kubeflow, which is in technical preview, is the enterprise platform designed to take you from prototype to production in no time.
It comes as no surprise that the demand for Kubernetes is skyrocketing across the industry. According to the CNCF’s 2019 survey, 78% of respondents are using Kubernetes in production today. This growth is contributing to a surge of demand for talent: there are over 100 thousand cloud native job postings across Dice and Indeed alone. The talent pool of people that have worked with Kubernetes and the adjacent technologies is limited and demand is growing.
Responsibilities are shifting between software developers and operators due to the increasing adoption of agile development practices, DevOps, and GitOps. This makes it challenging for developers and operators to effectively collaborate in order to increase developer agility and productivity. D2iQ’s Dispatch is built on a cloud native foundation, leveraging Tekton and Argo CD to simplify running CI/CD on Kubernetes with a simplified user experience.
GitOps has been around for quite some time now and continues to pique developer interest when it comes to driving operation tools. This technology-agnostic model embraces operations best practices, using Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications.The term GitOps for this operating model is now an industry standard and has rapidly made a name for itself among the Kubernetes and cloud-native communities.
We are proud to announce the general availability of DC/OS 2.1, which includes new enterprise-grade capabilities across the following key areas. These new capabilities further enhance the standing of DC/OS as the most robust, scalable cloud native platform for enterprises.
