Servers: Microservice, Clear Linux/Containers, Spaceborne Computer

• Microservice architecture takes a whole new approach to infrastructure

  With services like Netflix, Uber, YouTube, and Facebook, most people are used to apps that respond quickly, work efficiently, and are updated regularly. Patience is no longer a virtue, and thanks to apps like the ones mentioned above, when people use applications, they expect blistering speeds and uninterrupted service. If you do not provide that, users aren’t exactly starved for choice; it takes less than a minute to delete an app and download something else as a replacement.

• Clear Linux Project Announces the Next Generation of Intel's Clear Containers

  Intel's Clear Linux and Clear Containers teams are happy to introduce the next-generation of Intel's Clear Containers project, version 3.0, which bring many important new features and performance improvements. Rewritten in the Go language, Intel Clear Containers 3.0 introduces support for leveraging code used for namespace-based containers and better integrates into the container ecosystem, allowing support for Docker container engine and Kubernetes. It also improves the compatibility with the POSIX family of standards. "Today’s release presents a generational and architectural shift to utilize virtcontainers, a modular and hypervisor agnostic library for hardware virtualized containers. Clear Containers 3.0 is written in Go language and boasts an OCI compatible runtime implementation (cc-runtime) that works both on top of virtcontainers, and as a platform for deployment," said Amy L Leeland, Technical Program Manager, Intel Corporation.

• “Spaceborne” Linux Supercomputer Starts Running In Space, Achieves 1 Teraflop Speed

  About one month ago, the HPE’s Spaceborne Computer was launched into the space using SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft. This beast was launched as a result of a partnership between Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NASA to find out how high-performance computers perform in space. Now, this supercomputer is fully installed and operational in ISS. The performance experiment will be carried out for one year, which is roughly the time it will take for a spacecraft to travel to Mars. At the moment, lots of calculations for space research projects are carried out on Earth, but this brings in an unavoidable factor of latency.

System76's Pop!_OS Linux to Get a Beta Release Next Week with HiDPI Improvements

System76 is getting ready to unleash the first Beta release of their upcoming Pop!_OS Linux distribution, which should be available to download next week based on the Ubuntu 17.10 Final Beta. It appears that System76's development team recently dropped focus on the Pop!_OS Installer, which they develop in collaboration with the elementary OS team, to concentrate on fixing critical bugs and add the final touches to the Beta release. They still need to add some patches to fix backlight brightness issues on Nvidia GPUs.

Server: Red Hat, Security, Samba, Docker, Microsoft Canonical and MongoDB

• Technical Facts to Know Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) moves 55.88% away from One Year Low

• Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) is Under Analysts Radar

• Linux IoT botnet retooled to send spam email

  An IoT botnet has set its hooks in about 4,500 – 5,000 proxy devices to send spam emails which each device capable of sending 400 messages or a total of 1.8 million messages per day.

• Mini-Heartbleed info leak bug strikes Apache, airborne malware, NSA algo U-turn, and more

  As ever, it's been a doozy of a week for cybersecurity, or lack thereof. The Equifax saga just keeps giving, the SEC admitted it was thoroughly pwned, and Slack doesn't bother to sign its Linux versions. We do spoil you so, Reg readers. And that was only yesterday. Here's the rest of the week's shenanigans we didn't get round to.

• Samba 4.7.0 released

• Samba 4.7.0 Available for Download

• Hybrid datacenter is Docker’s latest open source goal

  Docker, Docker, Docker — everyone’s talking about Docker. A surprising fact is that Docker wasn’t on anyone’s roadmap in 2014, but was on everyone’s roadmap just a year later. A lot of people are calling it the most phenomenal, amazing, and speedy adoption of technology that they’ve witnessed during their careers. But this sudden rise to fame hasn’t been a lonely one. Docker has shared this amazing growth spurt with an entire ecosystem of tools and services.

• Microsoft and Canonical Increase Velocity with Azure Tailored Kernel

• MongoDB finally files to go public

• MongoDB Projects $100M from IPO

PocketBeagle and Android

• The PocketBeagle is the tiniest and most whimsically-named single-board computer on the market

• Register: Better In App Billing Testing on Android

  To get around these problems, we developed Register, an open-source library and companion app that allows seamless mocking of responses from Google Play’s In-app Billing.

• What does Google want with HTC's smartphone business?

  Google is acquiring a $1bn chunk of HTC’s smartphone arm, including 2,000 employees and access to intellectual property [sic], as it bets big on hardware

• Should OEMs continue working with Google in light of HTC deal?

  Android fragmentation and Google’s “increasingly mute voice” are reasons why the latter company needs to “raise the stakes and engage with manufacturers”, according to Dr John Baptista.