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Azure Boost DPU: Microsoft's New Silicon Solution for Enhanced Cloud Performance
At Ignite 2024, Microsoft unveiled the Azure Boost DPU, its first in-house solution for low-power, data-centric workloads. This innovative chip optimizes cloud performance and security, offering triple the efficiency of CPUs. With a robust hardware-software design, Microsoft’s advancements position it to redefine AI and cloud infrastructure.
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Azure AI Agent Service in Public Preview: Automation of Routine Tasks
Unveiling at Ignite, Microsoft's Azure AI Agent Service empowers developers to build and scale AI agents seamlessly. With secure integration, flexible use cases, and support for multiple frameworks, it automates workflows across platforms like Teams and Excel. Experience the future of business automation—innovate efficiently with Azure AI today!
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Post-Quantum Cryptography in Java
A pair of new JEPs arriving in Java 24 provide an initial Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) capability in Java.
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Google AI Agent Jules Aims at Helping Developers with Their GitHub-Based Workflows
Part of Gemini 2.0, Google has launched its new AI-based coding assistant in closed preview. Dubbed "Jules", the assistant aims at helping developers to work with Python and JavaScript issues and pull requests, handle bug fixes, and other related tasks.
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Ruby on Rails 8.0 Released, Introduces Kamal 2 for Improved Deployments
Recently, Ruby on Rails introduced v8.0, introducing updates aimed at simplifying deployment, enhancing performance, and reducing dependencies. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner & CTO of 37signals announced the major enhancements in a blog post.
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Amazon S3 Introduces Metadata Feature for Improved Data Management and Querying in Preview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched S3 Metadata, enhancing data management for S3 users. This new capability enables near real-time querying and analysis of S3 data via organized metadata updates. By adopting Apache Iceberg, it ensures interoperability and scalability, allowing businesses to efficiently leverage their data for analytics and AI applications.
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AWS Transfer Family Web Apps: Simplified S3 Data Access through the Browser
AWS Transfer Family's new web apps offer a user-friendly, no-code solution for secure access to Amazon S3 data. Designed for non-technical users, these fully managed portals simplify file management and enhance security with AWS IAM integration. Easily customizable and compliant with major standards, they streamline workflows and bridge gaps in traditional file transfer methods.
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Cloudflare Experiences Major Incident in November, Resulting in Log Loss
Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost. The incident impacted most customers using the service, with a misconfiguration triggering a cascading series of system failures and exposing weaknesses in handling unexpected spikes in demand.
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Optimizing Amazon ECS with Predictive Scaling
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released Predictive Scaling for Amazon ECS, an advanced scaling policy that employs machine learning (ML) algorithms to anticipate demand surges, ensuring applications remain highly available and responsive while minimizing resource overprovisioning.
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Static Analyser PHPStan Releases Version 2.0
PHPStan, a static analysis tool for PHP recently released its version 2.0. This release launches new features and improvements related to enhancing code analysis, performance, and user experience.
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Amazon Introduces Elastic VMware Service for VMware Workload Migration to AWS in Preview
AWS has unveiled the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling seamless VMware Cloud Foundation integration within Amazon VPC. This innovative service simplifies VMware workload migration and management in the cloud, allowing swift deployment and optimized infrastructure while offering customers flexibility and control over their applications.
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AWS Introduces Visual Deployment Timeline to Aid CloudFormation Debugging
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enhanced its CloudFormation service by adding a new deployment timeline view. The new view gives developers and cloud engineers a more intuitive way to track and understand the infrastructure deployment process, including new insights into dependencies.
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AWS Launches Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET Functions
AWS has unveiled Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET, enhancing serverless app performance by reducing cold start latency. This feature builds on the success of Lambda SnapStart for Java, allowing faster initializations through early environment caching. Available in multiple global regions, it offers efficient management of caching costs with Python 3.12+ and .NET 8+.
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AWS Cloud Development Kit Vulnerability Enables Full AWS Account Takeover
A new vulnerability discovered in AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by security firm Aqua could lead to an attacker fully taking over a target AWS account due to manual deletion of artifact S3 buckets. While AWS fixed the vulnerability, you are still required to take action if you have used CDK version v2.148.1 or earlier.
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HashiCorp Terraform 1.10 adds Ephemeral Values to Improve Secret Management
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.10, which introduces ephemeral values - a concept designed to protect sensitive information, such as passwords, which is often required to provision infrastructure with Terraform.