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The highlight of the conference was the keynote by John Willis (of ‘The
DevOps Handbook’ fame) who travelled all the way from the US for the event. He
talked about ‘DevOps in a Serverless World’ covering the best practices and how
they manifest in a serverless environment. He also conducted a post-conference
workshop on DevOps principles and practices.
Serverless technology is an interesting shift in the architecture of digital
solutions, where there is a convergence of serverless architecture, containers,
microservices, events and APIs in the delivery of modular, flexible and dynamic
solutions. This is what Gartner calls the ‘Mesh App and Services Architecture’ (or
MASA, for short). With that theme, there were sessions on serverless frameworks
and platforms like the open source Fn platform and Kubernetes frameworks
(especially Fission), Adobe’s I/O runtime, and Microsoft’s Azure platform.
Serverless technology applications covered at the event included sessions like
‘Serverless and IoT (Internet of Things) devices’, ‘Serverless and Blockchain’,
etc. The hands-on sessions included building chatbots and artificial intelligence
(AI) applications with serverless architectures. The conference ended with
an interesting panel discussion between Anand Gothe (Prowareness), Noora
(Euromonitor), John Willis (SJ Technologies), Sandeep Alur (Microsoft) and
Vidyasagar Machupalli (IBM).
Open Source For You (OSFY) was the media partner and the Cloud Native
Computing Foundation (CNCF) was the community partner for the conference.Microsoft announces new AI, IoT and machine learning
tools for developers
At Connect(); 2017, Microsoft’s annual event for professional developers, executive
VP Scott Guthrie announced Microsoft’s new data platform technologies and cross-
platform developer tools. These tools will help increase developer productivity
and simplify app development for intelligent cloud and edge technologies, acrossdevices, platforms or data sources. Guthrie outlined the company’s vision and
shared what is next for developers across a broad range of Microsoft and open
source technologies. He also touched on key application scenarios and ways
developers can use built-in artificial intelligence (AI) to support continuous
innovation and continuous deployment of today’s intelligent applications.
“With today’s intelligent cloud, emerging technologies like AI have the potential
to change every facet of how we interact with the world,” Guthrie said. “Developers
are in the forefront of shaping that potential. Today at Connect(); we’re announcing
new tools and services that will help developers build applications and services for
the AI-driven future, using the platforms, languages and collaboration tools they
already know and love,” he added.
Microsoft is continuing its commitment to delivering open technologies and
contributing to and partnering with the open source community.Linux support comes to
Arduino Create
The Arduino team has announced
a new update to the Arduino
Create Web platform. The initial
release has been sponsored by
Intel and supports X86/X86_
boards. This enables fast and easydevelopment and deployment
of Internet of Things (IoT)
applications with integrated
cloud services on Linux-based
devices. With Arduino Create
supporting Linux on Intel chips,
users are now able to program
their Linux devices as if these
were regular Arduinos.
The new Arduino Create
features a Web editor, as well
as cloud-based sharing and
collaboration tools. The software
provides a browser plugin, letting
developers upload sketches to
any connected Arduino board
from the browser.
Arduino Create now allows
users to manage individual IoT
devices, and configure them
remotely and independently from
where they are located. To further
simplify the user journey, the
Arduino team has also developed
a novel out-of-the-box experience
that will let anyone set up a new
device from scratch via the cloud,
without any previous knowledge,
by following an intuitive
Web-based wizard.
In the coming months, the team
has plans to expand support for
Linux based IoT devices running
on other hardware architectures too.10 | DECEMBER 2017 | OPEN SOURCE FOR YOU | http://www.OpenSourceForU.com