The way we architect and build applications has changed over the last decade or so. Where monoliths (or single, large codebases) used to be the standard, modern applications are now built using a combination of new architecture patterns, operational models, and software delivery services.
Manufacturing is more important than ever as governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the industry to drive innovation and economic prosperity through employment and exports, producing both essential and non-essential products that enhance our daily lives.
In microservices architecture, to identify performance issues—including latency—it’s important to monitor each service and all inter-service communication. Jaeger and VMware Tanzu Observability can help. Jaeger is an open source, distributed tracing system released by Uber Technologies. VMware Tanzu Observability is a high-performance streaming analytics platform that supports 3D observability (e.g., metrics, histograms, and traces/spans).
We are very excited to announce a key integration between VMware Tanzu and VMware Cloud on AWS that provides a significantly enhanced experience for our customers who want to deploy, run, and manage Kubernetes in VMware Cloud on AWS. With this integration, VMware Tanzu Mission Control now supports full lifecycle management—provisioning, upgrading, scaling, and deleting—of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS.
VMware Marketplace is a one stop-shop for VMware customers to discover, try, and deploy various third-party and open source solutions onto their VMware environments. All deployable assets on VMware Marketplace are pre-tested on their respective VMware environments, which empowers users to deploy them with confidence.
If technology applications are the building blocks of enterprises today, developers comprise the masonry team. At VMware, we seek to empower application developers, architects, platform and digital teams alike by giving them the ability to choose the right set of tools for their unique development needs and goals. We build deep, meaningful partnerships with industry peers to support our customers’ choices across their full technology stacks.
We are happy to announce that VMware Tanzu SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes 1.0 is generally available! Tanzu customers can easily run MySQL at scale on Kubernetes with this new release, which complements our existing Postgres engine for Kubernetes. Even better, with this new release Tanzu Advanced customers now have the two most popular open source operational databases included with their purchase.
Chris Sterling, Shruti Iyer, and Aditya Tripathi contributed to this blog post. APIs—the key component of any company’s microservices model—are driving digital transformation in modern enterprises. Indeed, “66 percent of organizations report using private or B2B APIs,” according to the Gartner report, “Create API Portals That Drive API Adoption Among Internal and External Developer Communities” by Akash Jain and Mark O’Neill, November 2020.
Senior IT leaders, motivated by both the changing nature of our economy and more recently, the COVID pandemic, have decisively shifted their focus toward applications. The industry catchphrase for this shift, digital transformation, makes clear its dual nature: directed toward the digital future while at the same time acknowledging that the existing environment must be modernized—in other words, transformed. Tasked with enabling this new breed of applications are operations groups.
We at VMware Tanzu recently published our first-ever summary of the current state of observability. The main goal of our research was to uncover the key trends in observability adoption by hearing directly from IT practitioners, including DevOps teams, SREs, application architects, and their managers. We also wanted to understand what’s driving the popularity of observability and what the organizational impact of deploying observability is.
