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Deploy Salesforce on Major Public Clouds with Hyperforce
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced Hyperforce, a new capability allowing customers to deploy Salesforce on major public cloud platforms Azure, AWS, Google, and Alibaba. With Hyperforce, the company redesigned the Salesforce architecture to provide a more scalable platform for its global customer base.
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AWS Introduces Proton - a New Container Management Service in Public Preview
During the annual AWS re:Invent developer conference, the public cloud provider announced the public preview of AWS Proton, a new fully-managed deployment service for container and serverless applications. With AWS Proton, customers can automate and manage infrastructure provisioning and code deployments for serverless and container-based applications.
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Kubernetes 1.20: Q&A with Release Lead and VMware Engineer Jeremy Rickard
InfoQ caught up with Jeremy Rickard, release lead and staff engineer at VMware, regarding the Kubernetes 1.20 release, which is one of the largest releases this year.
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Microsoft Launches New Data Governance Service Azure Purview in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced a new data governance solution in public preview on its cloud platform called Azure Purview. This new service automates the discovery of data and cataloging while minimizing compliance risk and helps customers map all their data, no matter where it resides, to provide an end-to-end view of their data estate.
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LinkedIn Migrates away from Lambda Architecture to Reduce Complexity
Software engineers from LinkedIn recently published how they migrated away from a Lambda architecture. The Lambda architecture implementation caused their solution to have high operational overhead and added complexity, leading to slow product iteration times. As a result, the engineers chose to migrate to a Lambda-less architecture, resulting in significant development velocity improvements.
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AWS Announces New Database Service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview
During the AWS re:Invent keynote, AWS announced the new database service Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL in Preview. The service is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible and ACID-compliant relational database engine that runs in the Amazon cloud and is open-source.
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AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2
During the first keynote of re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview. The new serverless version for the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora scales in fraction of a second and introduces multi-AZ support, global databases, and read replicas.
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Google Announces General Availability of Anthos on Bare Metal
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability (GA) of Anthos on bare metal, a deployment option to run Anthos on physical servers, deployed on an operating system provided by the customer, without a hypervisor layer. With Anthos on bare metal, customers can leverage their existing hardware, OS, and networking infrastructure investments.
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Inertia.JS Lets Developers Write API-Free Monolithic React/Vue/Svelte Applications in PHP or Ruby
Inertia.js allows developers to write single-page applications using classic server-side routing and controllers. Inertia tightly couples the backend to the frontend so developers need not write APIs. Developers can use battle-tested server-side frameworks (e.g., Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, AspNetCore). On the client, developers can use React, Svelte, or Vue to implement the user interface.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Recently, AWS introduced Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), a fully-managed service simplifying running open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS and build workflows to execute extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines.
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ASP.NET Core Improvements in .NET 5
Earlier this month, at the .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released the .NET 5 platform. This version includes a broad set of new features and improvements, which are also related to the ASP.NET Core framework. This release's efforts focus primarily on performance improvements, followed by other features regarding Blazor, SignalR, MVC, OpenAPI support, and Azure AD authentication integration.
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.NET 5 Runtime Improvements: from Functional to Performant Implementations
During a no-slides presentation at .NET Conf 2020, software architects from the .NET runtime team presented several .NET 5 runtime improvements and how they achieved them, including ARM64 support, HTTP/3, and single-file applications.
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Google Launches Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare
In a recent blog post, Google announced the public preview of two new fully-managed AI tools: Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare. Both tools can assist healthcare professionals in reviewing and analyzing medical documents in a repeatable, scalable way.
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AWS Announces Gateway Load Balancer
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully-managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection, prevention systems and deep packet inspection systems in the cloud.
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AWS Announces New Service: Amazon S3 Storage Lens
AWS announces a new service called Amazon S3 Storage Lens, which can provide customers with organization-wide visibility into their object storage usage and activity trends. With the service, they can understand what happens across their S3 Object Storage installations.