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Meta Optimizes Data Center Sustainability with Reinforcement Learning
In a recent blog post, Meta describes how its engineers use reinforcement learning (RL), to optimize environmental controls in Meta’s data centers, reducing energy consumption and water usage while addressing broader challenges such as climate change.
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Microsoft Unveils Azure Cobalt 100-Based Virtual Machines: Enhanced Performance and Sustainability
Microsoft's Azure Cobalt 100 VMs are now generally available. They deliver up to 50% improved price performance with energy-efficient Arm architecture. Tailored for diverse workloads, these VMs offer various configurations, including general-purpose and memory-optimized options. Their release supports sustainable computing, aligning with Microsoft's commitment to lower carbon footprints.
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Microsoft Launches Azure Confidential VMs with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs for Enhanced Secure Workloads
Microsoft's Azure has launched the NCC H100 v5 virtual machines, now equipped with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, enhancing secure computing for high-performance workloads. These VMs leverage AMD EPYC processors for robust data protection, making them ideal for tasks like AI model training and inferencing, while ensuring a trusted execution environment for sensitive applications.
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Google Cloud Adds Scalable Vector Search to Memorystore for Valkey & Redis Cluster
Google Cloud has introduced scalable vector-search capabilities to its Memorystore for Valkey and Redis Cluster. This update allows developers to perform vector searches at ultra-low latencies over billions of vectors.
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Podman Desktop 1.13 Launches with Hyper-V Support and Additional Enhancements
Podman Desktop 1.13 introduces key updates, including Hyper-V support for managing Podman machines on Windows, an integrated image search feature, and redesigned empty state pages for containers, images, pods, and Kubernetes. The release also includes a reorganized Kubernetes navigation and an Image Layer Explorer extension.
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Uber Completes Major MySQL Fleet Upgrade, Boosting Performance and Security
Uber has detailed improvements to its MySQL database fleet by upgrading from version 5.7 to 8.0. The team wanted to take advantage of performance and concurrency improvements in newer versions of MySQL, and because MySQL 5.7 was reaching end-of-life in October 2023. The work took over a year and involved upgrading more than 2,100 clusters and 16,000 nodes across 19 production zones in 3 regions.
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Scaling Uber’s Batch Data Platform: a Journey to the Cloud with Data Mesh Principles
Some months ago, Uber started the migration to the cloud, on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), of its batch data analytics and machine learning platform. In a recent post on its engineering blog, Uber provided additional information regarding its batch data cloud migration that incorporated crucial data mesh principles.
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Maybe WebAssembly Is the Next Evolutionary Step From Containers: Fermyon at InfoQ DevSummit Munich
During her presentation at the inaugural edition of the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Lancashire, principal software engineer at Fermyon and co-chair of the CNCF wasm-wg, hinted at WebAssembly containers as a greener alternative and a potential evolution from the current containerised approach to serverless computing.
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JFrog Integrates Runtime Security for Enhanced DevSecOps Platform
JFrog has introduced JFrog Runtime to its suite of security capabilities, adding real-time vulnerability detection to its software supply chain platform. This update is aimed at developers and DevSecOps teams working with Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native applications.
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Data Teams Survey: Lag in DataOps and Value Delivered
We report on Jesse Anderson's 2024 Data Teams Survey which showed a lag in DataOps capabilities, slow LLM adoption, and a concerning decline in perceived value creation by data teams. It called out the importance of teams spread with data science, engineering, and operations capabilities. We also cover Petr Janda's recent podcast on the need for more engineering rigour for parity with other teams.
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Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about using custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure. Server utilisation and performance issues made scaling applications to an appropriate size and number of replicas challenging, and Kuberenetes' HPA scaling alone didn't solve these issues. So Deezer turned to custom metrics.
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Mitmproxy 11 Released: Full HTTP/3 Support and DNS Enhancements
Mitmproxy released version 11, introducing some upgrades, including full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes. Alongside the HTTP/3 advancements, this release brings a range of DNS-related improvements, enhanced privacy features, and better handling of modern web protocols.
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Microsoft Launches Public Preview of Azure FXv2-Series VMs for High-Performance Workloads
Microsoft launched the public preview of its new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines, designed for high-performance and compute-intensive workloads. Powered by the latest 5th Generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C processors, the FXv2-series includes two models: FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2, both offering significant enhancements over the previous FXv1-series.
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AWS Sunsets More Services, Including AWS App Mesh and Amazon FSx File Gateway
In a series of blog posts, AWS has announced the scheduled retirements of several services, including AWS App Mesh and AWS DeepComposer. This new wave of deprecations follows a similar set of retirements earlier in the summer, marking a shift in the cloud provider’s long-standing commitment to existing services.
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System Initiative Launches DevOps Platform to Address Cloud Stack Drift
System Initiative aims to tackle some long-standing problems in conventional industry practices for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure. Specifically, existing solutions requiring static configurations for cloud infrastructure cannot reliably reflect fast-changing and dynamic cloud services, leading to "stack drift": unpredictability when engineers apply changes to infrastructure.