How GitLab Managed to Migrate from Azure to Google Cloud Platform
Recently GitLab.com was migrated from Azure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to make it more suitable to mission-critical workloads requiring the lowest error rates and the highest availability. InfoQ has spoken with Brandon Jung, VP of Alliances at GitLab, and Andrew Newdigate, Staff Engineer, Infrastructure, to learn more.
Amazon Managed Kafka Aims to Simplify Kafka Streaming Setup and Use
Introduced as a public preview at AWS re:invent 2018, Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) is now generally available. Amazon MSK aims to make it easy to build and run streaming applications based on Kafka.
Dapr Aims to Simplify the Creation of Resilient and Portable Microservices
Microsoft Dapr is an open-source, event-driven framework aimed to build resilient and portable microservices for Cloud and Edge applications. Dapr encapsulates the best practices for building microservices, Microsoft says, and allows developers to focus on the business logic of their application.
Fully-Managed Serverless Platform Google Cloud Run is Now GA
Google Cloud Run is Google’s fully managed solution for running containerized, serverless applications. After a six-month beta phase, Cloud Run is now generally available, along with Cloud Run for Anthos, which enables running your Google Cloud Run application on premises using a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster.