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Amazon S3 Introduces Metadata Feature for Improved Data Management and Querying in Preview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched S3 Metadata, enhancing data management for S3 users. This new capability enables near real-time querying and analysis of S3 data via organized metadata updates. By adopting Apache Iceberg, it ensures interoperability and scalability, allowing businesses to efficiently leverage their data for analytics and AI applications.
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QCon SF 2024: Refactoring Large, Stubborn Codebases
Jake Zimmerman, technical lead of Sorbet at Stripe, and Getty Ritter, Ruby infrastructure engineer at Stripe, presented Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases at the 2024 QCon San Francisco conference. Zimmerman and Ritter demonstrated how to fix complaints on maintaining a large codebase with leverage and by ratcheting incremental progress.
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From Aurora DSQL to Amazon Nova: Highlights of re:Invent 2024
The 2024 edition of re:Invent has just ended in Las Vegas. As anticipated, AI was a key focus of the conference, with Amazon Nova and a new version of Sagemaker among the most significant highlights. However, the announcement that generated the most excitement in the community was the preview of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 24 in Rampdown, JDK 25 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile, Spring Cloud
This week's Java roundup for December 2nd, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 24 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 25 Expert Group; the release of Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile and Spring Cloud 2024.0.0; and point releases for GlassFish, Open Liberty, Quarkus and Apache Camel.
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AWS Transfer Family Web Apps: Simplified S3 Data Access through the Browser
AWS Transfer Family's new web apps offer a user-friendly, no-code solution for secure access to Amazon S3 data. Designed for non-technical users, these fully managed portals simplify file management and enhance security with AWS IAM integration. Easily customizable and compliant with major standards, they streamline workflows and bridge gaps in traditional file transfer methods.
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Cloudflare Experiences Major Incident in November, Resulting in Log Loss
Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost. The incident impacted most customers using the service, with a misconfiguration triggering a cascading series of system failures and exposing weaknesses in handling unexpected spikes in demand.
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Optimizing Amazon ECS with Predictive Scaling
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released Predictive Scaling for Amazon ECS, an advanced scaling policy that employs machine learning (ML) algorithms to anticipate demand surges, ensuring applications remain highly available and responsive while minimizing resource overprovisioning.
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Amazon Introduces Elastic VMware Service for VMware Workload Migration to AWS in Preview
AWS has unveiled the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling seamless VMware Cloud Foundation integration within Amazon VPC. This innovative service simplifies VMware workload migration and management in the cloud, allowing swift deployment and optimized infrastructure while offering customers flexibility and control over their applications.
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AWS Launches Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET Functions
AWS has unveiled Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET, enhancing serverless app performance by reducing cold start latency. This feature builds on the success of Lambda SnapStart for Java, allowing faster initializations through early environment caching. Available in multiple global regions, it offers efficient management of caching costs with Python 3.12+ and .NET 8+.
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Java News Roundup: Last of the JEPs Targeted to JDK 24, Quarkus 3.17, Maven 4.0-RC1, Kotlin 2.1
This week's Java roundup for November 25th, 2024, features news highlighting: the last of the JEPs targeted to JDK 24 before Rampdown Phase One; the release of Quarkus 3.17.0, Hibernate Search 7.2.2, Kotlin 2.1.0 and JDKUpdater 14.0.67+100; the second release candidate of Vert.x 5.0 and the first release candidate of Maven 4.0.0.
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Aurora Serverless v2 Adds Zero-Capacity Scaling for True Serverless
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 has recently announced that it now supports scaling to zero capacity, enabling the database to automatically pause after a period of inactivity based on database connections. The lack of the ability to scale to zero capacity for Aurora's on-demand automatic scaling configuration has been a contentious topic for many years.
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Amazon Marks 10 Years of AWS Lambda by Releasing Initial Internal Document
Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, recently unveiled the internal design narrative that initiated the AWS Lambda project. The release of the PR/FAQ that sparked the development of one of Amazon’s most popular services offers a “peek behind the curtain” and highlights the initial vision for serverless computing at Amazon.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024: Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey On-Prem to Multi-Cloud
At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024, Nandhakumar Venkatachalam and Payal Patel shared Yahoo's Kubernetes journey from on-premises to multi-cloud at scale, underscoring challenges faced and lessons learned during this transition.
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Stream All the Things: Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing Explored by Adi Polak at QCon SF
Adi Polak, Director of Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering at Confluent, illuminated the complexities of data streaming in her QCon San Francisco presentation. She outlined key design patterns for robust pipelines, emphasizing reliability, scalability, and data integrity.
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QCon San Francisco 2024 Day 3: Arch Evolution, Next Gen UIs, Staff+ and Hardware Architectures
The 18th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day Three, scheduled on November 20th, 2024, included two keynote addresses by Hien Luu and Shruti Bhat and presentations from four conference tracks.