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Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution to Enhance Cloud Cost Visibility
Google Cloud's new Cost Attribution Solution revolutionizes cloud cost management with enhanced metadata and labeling tools. Tailored for both newcomers and veterans, it enables organizations to track expenses by team, project, and service, fostering informed financial decisions. With automated labeling and detailed reports, businesses can optimize resource allocation and cost visibility.
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Microsoft Introduces Drasi: Open-Source System for Real-Time Event Processing and Automation
Microsoft’s Azure Incubations team introduced Drasi, an open-source system that simplifies detecting critical events in complex infrastructures. Drasi offers real-time monitoring and automated responses, eliminating the need for manual event handling. With flexible components and integrations, it streamlines change detection across various data sources.
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Valkey 8.0 Now Generally Available with Improved Memory Efficiency
The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity, allowing for the storage of additional keys per node.
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Networking Cost Estimations and Analysis with Open-Source AWS Networking Cost Calculator
AWS has launched the Networking Costs Calculator, an open-source tool enabling users to estimate and visualize AWS networking charges effortlessly. With a serverless backend and a user-friendly ReactJS interface, it simplifies complex cost assessments. Ideal for optimizing networking budgets, this innovative calculator enhances cost transparency in cloud services.
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MLow: Meta Introduces Audio Codec for Low-End Devices
Meta has recently announced the Meta Low Bitrate (MLow) audio codec, aimed at enhancing real-time communication (RTC) on low-end devices and slow-speed connections. This new codec is designed to deliver efficient, high-quality audio streaming, even under low bandwidth conditions.
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AWS Launches Open-Source Agent for AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new open-source agent for AWS Secrets Manager. According to the company, this agent simplifies the process of retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, enabling secure and streamlined application access.
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GUAC Joins OpenSSF as Incubating Project
The Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) has joined the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) as an incubating project. GUAC provides a tool and underlying API to analyse and visualise software bill of materials (SBOM) along with threat intelligence feeds to determine whether vulnerabilities impact an application.
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AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps
AWS recently open-sourced its JavaScript runtime, called LLRT (Low Latency Runtime), an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
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LinkedIn's Open-Source "iris-message-processor" Achieves 86.6x Faster Escalation Management Speeds
LinkedIn developed a new open-source service called "iris-message-processor" to enhance the performance and reliability of its existing Iris escalation management system. "iris-message-processor" significantly improves processing speeds, being ~4.6x faster under average loads and ~86.6x faster under high loads than its predecessor.
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OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released
Recently, the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 was released. OLTP specification describes telemetry data's encoding, transport, and delivery mechanism between telemetry sources, intermediate nodes such as collectors, and telemetry backends. It is a general-purpose telemetry data delivery protocol designed in the scope of the OpenTelemetry project.
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Google Announces Graph for Understanding Artifact (GUAC) v0.1
The Open Source Security Team at Google has recently introduced GUAC (Graph for Understanding Artifact) v0.1, a tool designed for security professionals. GUAC focuses on metadata synthesis and aggregation, addressing the requirement outlined in the U.S. Executive Order on Cybersecurity. This tool aims to assist security professionals in assessing the security posture of the supply chain.
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Slack Open Sources Hakana, a Type Checker for Hack Language
Slack has recently open-sourced its type checker, Hakana. Based on Psalm and written in Rust, Hakana’s main objective is to enforce good code quality. Additionally, Hakana can also perform security analysis. Matt Brown, senior staff engineer at Slack, made the announcement in a blog post.
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Microsoft Brings Its Cloud Services and AI to the Edge
Microsoft recently announced the open-source release of Azure DeepStream Accelerator (ADA) in collaboration with Neal Analytics and NVIDIA, allowing developers to build Edge AI solutions with native Azure Services integration quickly.
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Programming Your Policies: Justin Cormack at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Justin Cormack, CTO at Docker, presented on Programming your policies. The talk is part of one of the editorial tracks called "Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML."
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Lightbend Changes Akka License and Is No Longer Open Source
Akka, a toolkit for writing concurrent distributed applications based on the actor model, was created thirteen years ago by Jonas Bonér, founder and CEO at Lightbend. The company has recently announced a new Akka license model that has changed from the open-source Apache 2.0 to the source-available Business Source License (BSL) 1.1.