Apple Ties Siri’s Future to Apache Mesos

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April 28, 2015

Recently, we’ve been covering Apache Mesos, along with Mesosphere, a company doing some interesting things surrounding Mesos and offering a data center operating system. Mesos is an open source project that abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to be built and run effectively.

Now, providing further evidence of how flexible Mesos can be, Apple announced during a meetup this week at its Cupertino, California, headquarters that its ever popular Siri application is being powered by Apache Mesos.

Citrix Delivers Linux Virtual Desktop Offering

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OStatic

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April 28, 2015

Citrix is out with some interesting moves in the Linux virtual desktop arena. The company has a new kit called the â€œLinux Virtual Desktop Tech Previewâ€ which is available here for XenApp or XenDesktop customers with active Subscription Advantage accounts. Citrix Partners can get it as well.

Last August, Citrix announced the Tech Preview of Linux Virtual Desktop. The newly available Tech Preview supports â€˜Hosted Shared Linux Desktops,’ which may offer advantages when it comes to backend infrastructure. Here are details.

Vivaldi TP3 Browser Adds Native Window Support On Linux

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Phoronix

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April 28, 2015

There’s a new tech preview release out today for Vivaldi, the cross-platform, Chromium-powered web browser that’s been generating a fair amount of interest since its release earlier this year…

Kde Plasma 5.3 has been released

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Francesco Mondello

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April 28, 2015

Plasma 5.3

Today, the Kde team released Plasma 5.3 which come with a lot of interesting features.

Plasma 5 is the desktop environment of the Kde project and we can certainly say that its development is a source of interest for a big chunk of Linux users since, at the moment, it is found to be at the center of very important changes. [Read more here]

A Brief Update On Fwupd For Linux Firmware Updating Of Devices

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Phoronix

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April 28, 2015

One of the latest focuses of prolific free software developer Richard Hughes has been on fwupd, an open-source and easy way to update device firmware…

KDE Plasma 5.3 Released, Here’s How To Upgrade in Kubuntu 15.04

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The Linux Foundation

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April 28, 2015

kde-large-tile KDE Plasma 5.3 has been released. We show you how you can upgrade to Plasma 5.3 in Kubuntu 15.04 using the official backports PPA.

Sharded Deployments with MongoDB and Brooklyn, a Framework for Scaling

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The Linux Foundation

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April 28, 2015

The nature of distributed architecture requires the user to think through how apps and services may run across multiple cloud services and data centers. Apps are one thing, but running a database in these types of environments carries a different level of complexity.

In this example, we are going to create a more complicated service involving MongoDB and sharding. We will then show you how you can use effectors to scale this service out or in.

MongoDB offers some pretty advanced options for scaling, both horizontally and vertically. So, weâ€™re going to look at how to create a sharded deployment (like that described in the figure above) with the Brooklyn plugin.

Kong Goes Open Source: Mashape Dubs it the First Microservices Management Layer

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ZDNet

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April 28, 2015

Core Kong and its libraries are on the loose. The technology behind the Mashape API hub is now open source, free, and aimed at developers working on microservices architectures.

Businesses Struggle to Track Critical IT Infrastructure Issues

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eWeek

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April 28, 2015

The Continuity Software survey indicated that ensuring consistent performance and uptime are the two greatest challenges facing IT operations.

Organizations large and small are struggling to meet their key performance indicator (KPI) goals and prevent IT issues before they adversely impact the business, according to a Continuity Software survey of 200 IT professionals from various industries.

Setup NovaDocker driver && Openstack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04 ( devstack ) recoverable between reboots

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Boris Derzhavets

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April 28, 2015

Step by step instruction for setting up Nova-Docker driver && Openstack Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04 in devstack environment recoverable between reboots. Also routing across LAN is described for remote access to Devstack (stack.sh) public network. I’ve tried to cover all known as of time of writing problems preventing ./rejoin-stack.sh from successful run. However , I cannot issue any warranty that tomorrow new daemon won’t rejoin stack instance after reboot. The only way for safe solution would be RDO Kilo Release expected in may of 2015 (for myself of course). This post is written with major concern of successful loading by Kilo Nova-Docker Driver in development environment.

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