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 OpenStack, the open-source infrastructure project that aims to give enterprises the equivalent of AWS for the private clouds, today announced the launch of its 17th release, dubbed “Queens.” After all of those releases, you’d think that there isn’t all that much new that the OpenStack community could add to the project, but just as the large public clouds keep adding… Read More

 Hangouts Chat, Google’s take on modern workplace communication, is now generally available and is becoming a core part of G Suite. Hangouts Chat was first announced at Google Cloud Next 2017, together with Hangouts Meet. While Meet went right into public availability, though, Chat went into an invite-only preview. Now, Google is rolling Chat out to all G Suite users. Read More

 Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash App — with users spending around $90 million on its Cash card in December, putting it on a potentially $1 billion run rate. That would offer another significant avenue for Square to snap up additional customers as it looks to chip away at the alternatives available for directly sending cash… Read More

 For IBM Watson CTO Rob High, the biggest technological challenge in machine learning right now is figuring out how to train models with less data. “It’s a challenge, it’s a goal and there’s certainly reason to believe that it’s possible,” High told me during an interview at the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read More

 If an engineer ends up leaving a company, on their own, or for any other reason, the company work is going to have to quickly work to change all of their keys for their credentials and keys application components. That’s a huge hassle, because often times it’s hard to know where they are stored, who can access what, and how to change everything at a massive scale — especially… Read More

 When Equifax was broken into late last year — one of the biggest security breaches in recent history — Fletcher Heisler wanted to make sure engineers got to know exactly what happened right away, and how to fix it. That’s part of the goal of Hunter2, a new online learning platform for engineers that’s designed to teach them how to handle these kinds of breaches in a… Read More

In episode #160 we discuss the Config Split module. www.talkingdrupal.com/160

Topics

• Dries post January 2 “More blogging and less social media” – www.dri.ex
• Config Management Initiative – https://groups.drupal.org/build-systems-change-management/cmi
• Configuration Split = https://www.drupal.org/project/config_split

Hosts

• Stephen Cross – www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
• John Picozzi – www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi
• Nic Laflin – www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan

 Broadcom and Qualcomm, the former of which is trying to acquire the latter, are continuing to duke it out on their respective investor relations pages by issuing public statements to investors over how much drama there is over the pricing of this deal. Read More

Please join Percona’s Build / Release Engineer, Mykola Marzhan, as he presents Monitoring Amazon RDS with Percona Monitoring and Management on February 27, 2018, at 7:00 am PDT (UTC-8) / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-5).

Are you concerned about how you are monitoring your AWS environment? Keeping track of what is happening in your Amazon RDS deployment is key to guaranteeing the performance and availability of your database for your critical applications and services.

Did you know that Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) ships with support for MySQL on Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora out of the box? It does!

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL MariaDB, MongoDB, Percona Server for MongoDB performance both on-premise and in the cloud.

In this session we’ll discuss:

• Configuring PMM (metrics and queries) against Amazon RDS MySQL and Amazon Aurora using an EC2 instance
• Configuring PMM against CloudWatch metrics
• Setting configuration parameters for AWS for maximum PMM visibility

Register for the webinar now.

Mykola Marzhan, Release Engineer

Mykola joined Percona in 2016 as a release engineer. He has been developing monitoring systems since 2004, and has been working as Release Engineer/Release Manager/DevOps for ten years. Recently, Mykola achieved an AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) authentication.

 It’s official, the Dropbox IPO filing is here. Going public is a huge milestone for Dropbox and has been one of the most anticipated tech IPOs for several years now. We knew that it had already filed confidentially, but the company has now unveiled its filing, meaning the actual IPO is likely very soon, probably late March. Read More