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Prezi's Journey from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
Prezi’s engineering team recently discussed their transition from a Prometheus-based monitoring system to VictoriaMetrics, focusing on cost optimization, performance improvements, and architectural simplicity. This transition reduced the costs by approximately 30%, and speed of completion for heavy queries reduced to 3-7 seconds from 30+ seconds.
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OpenAI Features New o3-mini Model on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service
OpenAI has launched the advanced o3-mini model via Microsoft Azure, enhancing AI applications with improved cost efficiency, faster performance, and adjustable reasoning capabilities. Designed for complex tasks, it supports structured outputs and backward compatibility. With widespread access, the o3-mini empowers developers to drive innovation across various industries.
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Slack Enhances Accessibility Testing through Automation
Slack recently integrated automated accessibility testing into its software development lifecycle to improve user experience for individuals with disabilities. Slack has internal standards and the company further collaborates with external accessibility testers as well. These standards align with WCAG, an internationally recognized benchmark for web accessibility.
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Recent Generations of Apple CPUs Affected by New Side-Channel Vulnerabilities
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ruhr University Bochum demonstrated two new side channel attacks on recent M and A CPUs from Apple that leak sensitive information when using Chrome and Safari to visit popular sites.
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How Locking, Saturation and CDN Network Issues Brought down Canva
The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident.
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Amazon EventBridge Event Bus Cross-Account Event Delivery
AWS enhances Amazon EventBridge, enabling direct event delivery across accounts. This feature simplifies architecture, boosts security, and reduces latency, allowing seamless routing of events to AWS services like SQS and Lambda. Leverage fine-grained IAM control for streamlined event sourcing. Discover more about this transformative update on AWS documentation and GitHub.
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DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information Highlights AI Security Risks
Cloud security firm Wiz uncovered unprotected DeepSeek database giving full control over database operations and access to internal data including millions of lines of chat logs. While the vulnerability has been quickly fixed, the incident shows the need for the AI industry to enforce higher security standards, says the company.
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Dragonfly v2.2.0 Released: Rust Client, P2P Upgrades, and Enhanced Image Acceleration
In January, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the release of Dragonfly version 2.2.0, introducing several significant enhancements to the open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution and image acceleration system.
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Git 2.48: Modernized with Meson Build System, Memory Leaks Fixed
Git 2.48 now supports the Meson build system, a modern alternative to the existing Makefile, Autoconf, and CMake-based systems. This change addresses limitations in IDE support and maintenance issues with older systems.
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Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider
Yellowbrick, an SQL data platform provider, has significantly reduced costs by moving workloads from the public cloud to its own private Kubernetes-based infrastructure. It has reported an annual saving of $3.9 million by moving its development and testing environments away from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Enhancing Compliance with AWS Declarative Policies
AWS recently introduced declarative policies, a feature designed to help organizations define and enforce desired configurations for AWS services at scale. This capability addresses common challenges faced by customers who need to establish standards for cloud resource configurations, such as blocking public access to Amazon EBS snapshots.
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Agoda Integrates macOS Infrastructure with Kubernetes
Agoda recently detailed how they integrated their macOS infrastructure with Kubernetes. This was accomplished by developing the macOS Virtualization Kubelet (macOS-vz-Kubelet), a tool designed to manage macOS workloads within a Kubernetes environment.
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AWS Adds Container Insights with Enhanced Observability to Elastic Container Service
AWS recently announced the launch of Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). This goes on the lines of a similar feature previously introduced for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This new capability aims to improve monitoring and troubleshooting for container workloads.
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Terraform Fork OpenTofu Adds Provider Iteration and Exclusions
Version 1.9.0 of OpenTofu - the infrastructure-as-code tool forked a year ago from Hashicorp's Terraform - has been released. This release brings several significant features, including provider iteration capabilities through `for_each`, to enable simplified multi-zone and multi-region deployments.
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Microsoft Research Introduces AIOpsLab: a Framework for AI-Driven Cloud Operations
Microsoft Research unveiled AIOpsLab, an open-source framework designed to advance the development and evaluation of AI agents for cloud operations. The tool provides a standardized and scalable platform to address challenges in fault diagnosis, incident mitigation, and system reliability within complex cloud environments.