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Enabling OpenTracing with the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

2019-11-01 KENNETH 0

Enabling OpenTracing with the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Interest in Kubernetes has grown steadily over the past few years, and many enterprises are adopting it along with microservices architectures in their production environments. Adopting distributed services introduces new challenges, however. Understanding and debugging what is happening in a microservices‑based application can be difficult, especially if there are a large number of services. To spot failures or performance problems, you need a distributed tracing tool which tracks requests end-to-end as data is passed among the microservices that make up an application. OpenTracing is a specification and set of APIs for distributed tracing. In a previous post we showed how to enable distributed tracing for applications proxied and load balanced by NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus, using the open source module (nginx-opentracing) created by the OpenTracing community. At the time of [ more… ]

Windows expands support for robots

2019-10-31 KENNETH 0

Windows expands support for robots Robotics technology is moving fast. A lot has happened since Microsoft announced an experimental release of Robot Operating System (ROS)[1] for Windows at last year’s ROSCON in Madrid. ROS support became generally available in May 2019, which enabled robots to take advantage of the worldwide Windows ecosystem—a rich device platform, world-class developer tools, integrated security, long-term support and a global partner network. In addition, we gave access to advanced Windows features like Windows Machine Learning and Vision Skills and provided connectivity to Microsoft Azure IoT cloud services. At this year’s ROSCON event in Macau, we are happy to announce that we’ve continued advancing our ROS capabilities with ROS/ROS2 support, Visual Studio Code extension for ROS and Azure VM ROS template support for testing and simulation. This makes it easier and faster for developers to create [ more… ]

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Join the Microsoft Edge team next week at Ignite 2019

2019-10-31 KENNETH 0

Join the Microsoft Edge team next week at Ignite 2019 Next week, we will be travelling to Microsoft Ignite 2019 to share what’s new in Microsoft Edge for enterprises, IT professionals, and web developers. We’re very excited to share more about our journey with Chromium over the past year, what it means to your customers, and to hear your feedback. In this post, we’ve outlined all the breakout sessions and other activities our team will be presenting at Ignite next week, so you can easily track which sessions you want to attend or review later. This year, Ignite is also introducing Roundtable Topics, which are a great opportunity to share your experiences with the product team directly, provide feedback, and help us understand how we can empower you and your organization with Microsoft Edge. The full list of sessions is [ more… ]

Identity, Registration and Activation of Non-packaged Win32 Apps

2019-10-30 KENNETH 0

Identity, Registration and Activation of Non-packaged Win32 Apps Many new and sought-after Windows APIs and features such as BackgroundTasks, Notifications, LiveTiles, Share and more, are either not available or not easily callable from non-packaged Win32 applications. This is due to the programming model for UWP APIs that integrate with the system and have a dependency on the following concepts: Identity – The need for package or application identity to identify the caller, and an identifier to scope data and resources. Registration – The need for configuration of machine state during application deployment, which is required by the API and indexed by the package or application identity. For packaged applications, Identity declared in the Appxmanifest.xml, and Registration is handled by the MSIX deployment pipeline based on the information in the AppxManifest.xml. This allows a simplified calling pattern for UWP APIs where [ more… ]

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WordPress 5.3 RC3

2019-10-30 KENNETH 0

WordPress 5.3 RC3 The third release candidate for WordPress 5.3 is now available! WordPress 5.3 is currently scheduled to be released on November 12 2019, but we need your help to get there—if you haven’t tried 5.3 yet, now is the time! There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.3 release candidate: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose the “bleeding edge nightlies” option) Or download the release candidate here (zip). For details about what to expect in WordPress 5.3, please see the first and second release candidate posts. Release Candidate 3 contains improvements to the new About page, bug fixes for the new default theme, Twenty Twenty (see #48450), and 9 fixes for the following bugs and regressions: Four bugs in the block editor have been fixed (see #48447). Three Date/Time related bugs have been fixed (see #48384). A regression in date_i18n() has been fixed [ more… ]