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Project Emoji: The complete redesign

2016-08-05 KENNETH 0

Project Emoji: The complete redesign The world loves emoji. What a strange phenomenon, right? They’re a whole new language. Descriptive metaphors packed into magical little glyphs. This week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update delivered a breadth of optimized features to Windows customers worldwide. Among them is a new emoji keyboard, designed from the bottom-up with universality at its heart. Lately, emoji designers are trying to rethink some of the basic characterizations that tend to exclude people. The representation of the global community is lacking, and for its part, Microsoft leveraged the launch of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to release over 1700 new glyphs, with a possible 52,000 combinations of diverse women, men, kids, babies, and families. They’ve completely overhauled their emoji for the better. The Microsoft Design Language Team embarked on Project Emoji, redesigning the emoji set from scratch [ more… ]

DevOps and Immutable Delivery

2016-08-05 KENNETH 0

DevOps and Immutable Delivery This blog post is adapted from a presentation given by John Willis at nginx.conf in San Francisco in September 2015. You can watch the video of the presentation on YouTube. Table of Contents  00:10 Introduction  2:37 Immutable  3:50 Immutable Infrastructure Myth  4:25 Order Matters  5:33 Management Methods  8:40 Why (When) Does Order Matter? 13:40 Package Example 15:15 More Nightmares 18:00 Immutable Infrastructure Model 19:00 How to Do Immutable 21:45 The Immutable Trombone 29:27 Case Studies References and Recommended Reading 0:10 Introduction Hi. I’m John Willis, Director of Ecosystem Development at Docker. You could say that I’m an IT operations junkie. Other than my wife and my kids, that’s really all I think about. Well, maybe sports on Saturdays. I have 35 years of IT operations experience. I’ve worked at Exxon and Canonical. I had an amazing experience at Chef. [ more… ]

What’s new in Microsoft Edge with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

2016-08-04 KENNETH 0

What’s new in Microsoft Edge with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update It’s been just over a year since we first introduced Microsoft Edge, the brand new browser for Windows 10. We took a new direction, establishing Microsoft Edge as a browser for doing more on the web, with reading tools, notetaking, and Cortana built-in.  We built it on top of the Universal Windows Platform, which includes our brand-new web rendering engine, EdgeHTML.  Altogether Microsoft Edge delivers a faster, more efficient, more compatible, more secure, and more productive experience to all Windows 10 customers. Over the last year we’ve been hard at work taking Microsoft Edge to the next level with features and improvements that make every part of the browser better. In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge has support for browser extensions from the Windows Store, dozens of [ more… ]

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Move Your Enterprise Applications to the Cloud with this Free O’Reilly Ebook

2016-08-04 KENNETH 0

Move Your Enterprise Applications to the Cloud with this Free O’Reilly Ebook More and more enterprises are migrating their applications to the cloud, doubtless having noticed the phenomenal success of innovative startups like Airbnb, Netflix, and Uber. Those companies have fully exploited the cloud to catapult themselves from small challengers to category leaders in a few short years. Taking advantage of the flexibility and efficiency of the cloud to speed up their development processes, they’ve built amazing products and quickly captured tens of millions of users, an achievement that just a decade ago we would have expected only from large, established corporations with huge budgets. Unfortunately, however, successfully migrating enterprise applications to the cloud is not easy. This process requires rearchitecting applications that have been built in a certain way for years, if not decades. To achieve business goals and [ more… ]

Installing NGINX and NGINX Plus with Puppet

2016-08-03 KENNETH 0

Installing NGINX and NGINX Plus with Puppet In previous blog posts we have shown how to use Ansible and Chef to install the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus. In this post we’ll cover how to use Puppet. Puppet maintains an extensive collection of modules, both community-contributed and in-house, that make it easy to get started. The default NGINX module, written by James Fryman, is very powerful and has built‑in support for generating NGINX configuration files from simple Puppet manifest files. In this post we show how to use that module to install the open source NGINX software, as well as how to make the necessary modifications for installing and configuring NGINX Plus. This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of Puppet and its configuration files. If you need to review, please check out the tutorials and documentation at the Puppet [ more… ]