AWS Services GDPR-Ready, GCP Cloud Security Tools, Resiliency at Sportradar, Hyperledger "Caliper" Blockchain Benchmark, Visual Studio 15.7, VueConf.US Summary

In this issue, April 11, 2018 [View it in your browser.]( [AWS Services GDPR-Ready](#AWS), [GCP Cloud Security Tools](#GCP), [Resiliency at Sportradar](#Sportradar), [Hyperledger "Caliper" Blockchain Benchmark](#Caliper), [Visual Studio 15.7](#Visual), [VueConf.US Summary](#VueConf) [Want to learn more on debugging microservices?]( Join Liz Fong-Jones, Adam Mckaig and George Talbot at [QCon New York]( to learn how SREs discover and debug problems at Google during outages, and hear real stories about their experiences. Save up to $500 if you [register]( before May 5th!  SPONSOR AD [Evident_ad_img]( [Top 10 Best Practices for AWS Security.]( In this eBook, you will learn the top 10 AWS security controls and best practices that you can implement right away to accelerate your business in the cloud safely and securely. As you will discover, most of these [best practices]( are easy to implement and go a long way to ensuring your success in AWS. 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(Mini book) [DevOps Latest Content]( TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES - [] [Migrating Edge Network Providers at Envato without Downtime]( - [] [Datical Adds Continuous Delivery Capabilities for the Database]( - [] [What Resiliency Means at Sportradar]( - [] [Amazon Web Services Reports That All GA Services Are Now GDPR Ready]( - [] [Google's New Cloud Security Tools Increase DDOS Protection, Transparency and Usability]( [] [Taming Distributed Stateful Pets with Kubernetes]( Matthew Bates and James Munnelly explain how to use StatefulSet and dynamic volume provisioning to manage the lifecycle of distributed and secure Cassandra clusters with the open source project Navigator. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon New York, June 27-29, 2018](. Join us! [] [Kubernetes: Crossing the Chasm]( Ian Crosby covers the fundamental concepts and features of Kubernetes, and then moves beyond this to set up a production ready Kubernetes cluster. 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Packt Publishing Mastering Blockchain by Imran Bashir aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Blockchain, a technology that is claimed to be able to revolutionise our society and impact every industry. (Article) [] [Abstractions to Help Developers Write Good Crypto]( Isaac Potoczny-Jones discusses the impact of programming abstractions on the correctness of cryptographic code, and shows why some cryptographic libraries succeed and why some fail. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon New York, June 27-29, 2018](. Join us! [] [​Keeping Code Style Sanity in a 13-Year-Old Codebase]( Gabi Stefanini explores the code style consistency as illustrated by the history of Shopify's 13-year-old codebase, sharing techniques, tools and guides used. (Presentation) [] [Writing Extensible Functional Code]( Renan Ranelli discusses Protocols (Elixir & Clojure) and TypeClasses (Haskell) and relates them to alternatives in other languages (Mixins in Ruby and Extension Methods in C#). 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[] [Making the Windows Command-Line Great Again!]( Tara Raj and Rich Turner talk about how Microsoft has been overhauling the Windows command-line experience in Windows 10, making it easier than ever to run Windows tools alongside Linux tools in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and on containers in Docker for Windows, or in the cloud. (Presentation) The next QCon is [QCon New York, June 27-29, 2018](. Join us! SPONSOR AD [Packt_ad_img]( [Java Programming for Beginners by Packt.]( - A step by step intro to Java programming - Learn Java syntax and fundamentals of OOP Use code ORIQC10 to get the eBook for $10 only! [Offer valid till Apr 30’ 18](. 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