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Running Apache Flink Applications on AWS KDA: Lessons Learnt at Deliveroo
Deliveroo introduced Apache Flink into its technology stack for enriching and merging events consumed from Apache Kafka or Kinesis Streams. The company opted to use AWS Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) service to manage Apache Flink clusters on AWS and shared its experiences from running Flink applications on KDA.
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Inside InfluxDB 3.0: Exploring InfluxDB’s Scalable and Decoupled Architecture
InfluxData recently unveiled the system architecture for InfluxDB 3.0, its newest time-series DB. Its architecture encompasses four major components responsible for data ingestion, querying, compaction, and garbage collection and includes two main storage types. The architecture caters to operating the DB on-premise and natively on major cloud providers.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.
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Amazon Introduces AWS HealthImaging to Store and Analyze Medical Imaging Data
At the recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon announced AWS HealthImaging. The new HIPAA-eligible service helps healthcare providers to store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at scale.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Cloud, MicroProfile Telemetry, Foojay.io Calendar, JVM Language Summit
This week's Java roundup for August 7th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.24, Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M1, Spring Modulith 1.0-RC1, Payara Cloud, Quarkus 3.2.4, MicroProfile Telemetry 1.1, OpenXava 7.1.4, Foojay.io calendar and JVM Language Summit 2023.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability for Its Telco Offering Azure Operator Nexus
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Operator Nexus, a carrier-grade and hybrid platform built to allow telecom operators to modernize and transform their networks. It is designed to bring the performance and resiliency of carrier-grade network functions to traditional cloud infrastructures.
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Semantic Kernel LLM Java SDK Now Available, Simplifying GenAI Integration
Microsoft has announced the availability of its Semantic Kernel software development kit (SDK) for Java, designed to mesh Large Language Models (LLMs) with popular programming languages, extending support beyond C# and Python.
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Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex Instances Now Available for General-Purpose Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances, equipped with custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Sapphire Rapids). The Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are instance types intended for general-purpose workloads providing a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources.
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Java News Roundup: Liberica JDK Performance Edition, GraalVM JDK 21 Builds, Open Liberty, Quarkus
This week's Java roundup for July 31st, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.7, GraalVM JDK 21 Developer Builds, Liberica JDK Performance Edition, JNoSQL 1.0.1, Spring Tools 4.19.1, Open Liberty 23.0.0.8-beta and 23.0.0.7, Micronaut 4.0.3, Quarkus 3.2.3 and 2.16.9, Apache Camel 4.0.0-RC2, JHipster Lite 0.40, Ktor 2.3.3, Maven 3.9.4 and Gradle 8.3-RC3.
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Enhancing Security with Google Cloud's Service Account Key Expiry Feature
Google Cloud has recently introduced service account key expiry to address security challenges associated with long-lived service account keys. With this capability, the company states that "customers can now configure an Organization Policy at the organization, folder, and project level to limit the usable duration of new service account keys”.
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Cadence 1.0: Uber Releases Its Scalable Workflow Orchestration Platform
Uber released a major version of its workflow orchestration platform named Cadence after six years in development. Uber and other companies use Cadence to build stateful services at scale using native programming languages.
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Feature Engineering at AirBnb Using Chronon
To increase productivity and scalability when creating new features to use in machine learning models, AirBnb has built Chronon, a solution to create the infrastructure required to turn raw data into features for training and inference.
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AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.
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AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
AWS recently announced that starting from February 2024, they will be charging for public IPv4 addresses. According to the cloud provider, this change aligns AWS with other cloud providers, encourages frugal usage of a scarce resource, and accelerates the adoption of IPv6.
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AWS Introduces a Generative AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Tool with HealthScribe in Preview
AWS recently announced a new HIPAA-eligible service called AWS HealthScribe in a preview that uses speech recognition and generative AI (powered by Amazon Bedrock) to generate clinical documentation.