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FROM THE EDITORS "VIRTUAL NEWS" DESK
Hi everyone, well I am trying to get the news back on track for us. I also have our awesome Tanzu News section back which was not available for the last few weeks. This is a really cool aggregation of news stories across the world related to VMware Tanzu. It's right at the top of the newsletter, well almost, and provides a fun and informative read in a very different format that I have received great reviews from.

As usual we also have out new top articles from Tanzu featured for you to check out as well as other news and reviews, so please enjoy this weeks newsletter.

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Neil

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FEATURED
Caching 101, Illustrated with Tanzu GemFire
Caching is an overloaded term, with two working definitions. One definition describes a cache as a place to stash data. In this way, a cache is the implementation of a datastore that serves as the system of record. The second definition describes a cache as a datastore that increases the performance of an app's data requests by holding copies of needed data. The retrieval of those copies from the cache is fast, while the original data remains in a slower datastore, typically a disk-based storage system. 

Massively Parallel Automated Model Building for Deep Learning
Artificial neural networks are seeing increased adoption in the enterprise as they can be used to create accurate models in diverse domains, such as natural language processing and image recognition. However, training deep neural networks is expensive, since many trials are typically needed to select the best model architecture and associated hyperparameters. (Hyperparameters are variables that are set manually, as opposed to parameters like weights, which are computed automatically during training.) Automated machine learning, or AutoML, automates the time-consuming, iterative task of model development in order to make data science workflows more efficient and, in the process, minimize the amount of resources consumed. 

Log Shipping Using Fluent Bit and vSphere with Tanzu
One of the new features that came with the latest update of vSphere with Tanzu was the ability to use TKG Extensions. This powerful framework allows simplified deployment and management of multiple open source projects that are backed by VMware support, including alerting with Prometheus, visualization with Grafana, ingress with Contour, and logging with Fluent Bit. 

Kubernetes Guides and Software Development Practices from VMware Tanzu Labs
For decades, the cloud native methods used by VMware Tanzu Labs for product and platform development have been adopted by enterprises, start-ups, and governments spanning the globe. We’ve worked on thousands of projects to help our customers realize meaningful product and platform outcomes and grow their business through our specialized consulting services. With each new client and project, Tanzu Labs consultants have contributed to an immense internal knowledge base. And now we are ecstatic to announce a new, groundbreaking initiative: We are open sourcing our renowned practices and patterns, on topics ranging from controlling Kubernetes Ingress with Contour, to workshops for identifying risky product assumptions, to breaking down monolithic applications into microservices, and more. 

The State of Observability 2021: Key Findings
We at VMware Tanzu recently published our first-ever summary of the current state of observability. The main goal of our research was to uncover the key trends in observability adoption by hearing directly from IT practitioners, including DevOps teams, SREs, application architects, and their managers. We also wanted to understand what’s driving the popularity of observability and what the organizational impact of deploying observability is. In this post, I will summarize some of our key findings. 

This Month in Spring - April 2021
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Month in Spring! How've you been? I've been busy!
But I love Kubernetes. It's got abstractions for every kind of workload. You can build fantastic things on it. And for the 80% case, you can use primitives like Buildpacks, and integration pipelines, and platforms like Cloud Foundry that sit on top of Kubernetes, to smooth the path to production. It's awesome. One opportunity is that you can use the official Kubernetes Java client, which has a very nice Spring Boot autoconfiguration, to control the platform. Naturally, the good Dr. Dave Syer has already blazed that trail. I took his example. The good Doctor even got it working with GraalVM by hand crafting a reams of required .json reflection configuration. I took that inspiring work and built some Spring Native hints that you can use by adding it to the dependencies for the spring-aot Maven plugin, as demonstrated here. You can clone that example and then run mvn clean package spring-boot:build-image. Run that controller against Minkube or Docker Desktop, as demonstrated here. Deploy something, and you should see it pop up in the console. The result is a controller that starts up in milliseconds (~30ms on my machine) and takes substantially less RAM than a typical Java application, while retaining all the power of Spring. Pretty cool, no?

TANZU UPDATES AND MORE...
-Dave Syer gave a quick preview of what to expect at SpringOne Tour Booternetes Europe on April 28 https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/videos/springone-tour-booternetes-europe-april-28th
-For Tanzu Tuesday, Marcin Grzejszczak took viewers on a deep dive into application observability using distributed tracing, metrics, and correlated logs via Spring Cloud Sleuth, Tanzu Observability, OpenZipkin, OpenTelemetry, and more https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/tanzu-tuesdays/0050/
-On this episode of Code, Jakub Pilimon showed why and how to properly refactor a legacy designhttps://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/code/0028/
-Josh Long picked his personal highlights for the week in Spring
https://spring.io/blog/2021/04/20/this-week-in-spring-april-20th-2021 
-On the Bootiful Podcast, Josh Long talked to Biden campaign CTO, Spinnaker cofounder, and Target engineer Dan Woods https://spring.io/blog/2021/04/15/a-bootiful-podcast-biden-campaign-cto-spinnaker-cofounder-target-distinguished-engineer-and-all-around-epic-guy-dan-woods 
-On another episode of Bootiful Podcast, Josh Long spoke with Reliably CEO Russ Mileshttps://spring.io/blog/2021/04/22/a-bootiful-podcast-reliably-ceo-russ-miles 
-In this webinar, Anil Gupta and Rishi Sharda explained what observability is and why it’s important for Spring developers. They also run a live demo of Tanzu Observability for Spring Boot, a freemium service for Spring Boot users. https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/apr-20-spring-boot-observability
-On his vEducate.co.uk blog, Dean Lewis broke down Tanzu product names and terms https://veducate.co.uk/tanzu-terminology/ 
-Kenny Coleman wrote this post walking through the setup and configuration of Fluent Bit using TKG Extensions on a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/log-shipping-using-fluent-bit-and-vsphere-with-tanzu
-On TGIK, Evan Anderson and Gustavo Franco discussed using Sonobuoy to run your own cluster-level acceptance tests https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/tgik/152/
-Marco Nicosia made three videos on MySQL:
**How to set up Tanzu MySQL for auto failover in HA scenarios on K8s https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/videos/tanzu-sql-mysql-ha-failover-demo
**How to spin up MySQL instances once you've installed the operator https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/videos/tanzu-sql-mysql-deploying-mysql-instances
**How to install our MySQL Kubernetes cluster operator, which automates the deployment and management of MySQL database instances on K8s https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/videos/tanzu-sql-mysql-kubernetes-operator-installation
-Ellie Ereira wrote a post about how Tanzu Labs worked with Save the Children to reevaluate and redesign their process for analyzing malnutrition data to better determine root causes https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/tanzu-act-save-the-children-malnutitrion-research 
-On the Cloud & Culture podcast, Derrick Harris and Danielle Burrow talked with State Farm architecture manager Jeff Anderson about how he helped modernize State Farm’s app platforms, designed a robust developer training program, and how he decides which apps should live where https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/how-state-farm-teaches-developers-new-tricks-and-new-platforms
-In this webinar, Michael Coté gave a preview of the ideas covered in his upcoming e-book, Changing Mindsets: The Missing Ingredient to Digital Transformation, all about the cultural shifts organizations need to make in order to lead a successful digital transformation https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/apr-20-preview-of-changing-mindsets-the-missing-ingredient-to-digital-transformation 
-451 Research wrote this report about how, a year after launch, Tanzu is evolving to support multiple phases of digital transformation with Tanzu editions
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/analyst-reports/vmware-tanzu-editions-take-shape-as-cloud-native-roadmap-leans-in-on-transformation 
-Michael Coté spoke with Taylan Güney about Yapı Kredi Bank’s transformation journey and how the organization analyzed its portfolio of 300+ apps, shifted from a project mindset to a product mindset, and built the internal trust necessary to make those changes
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/videos/moving-from-project-to-product-at-yap%C4%B1-kredi-bank-with-taylan-g%C3%BCney

PODCAST
Tanzu SQL MySQL: Kubernetes Operator Installation
Tanzu SQL MySQL: Deploying MySQL Instances
Tanzu SQL MySQL: HA Failover Demo
Tanzu TV - Between Chair and Keyboard - The one with Chandra Guntur

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