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Amazon DataZone Generally Available: Share and Access Data across AWS Accounts
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon DataZone. This data management service allows users to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources.
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QCon SF 2023: How Netflix Really Uses Java by Paul Bakker
Paul Bakker, Java Platform at Netflix, Java Champion, and co-author of "Java 9 Modularity," presented How Netflix Really Uses Java at the 2023 QCon San Francisco conference. Bakker described the evolution of the architecture behind their movie application, introduced the GraphQL Federation, and described how Java is used at Netflix that includes plans to support JDK 21.
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How Amazon Prime Video Delivers 99.999% Availability While Reducing Costs
Amazon Prime Video created a highly available live video streaming architecture by combining redundant components to achieve the five-nines of availability that they require for their platform. The company optimized the deployment topology and video encoding to reduce costs while ensuring optimal video quality for users.
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QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 3: Architecting the Cloud, Deep Tech, Frontend Trends, Org Resilience
The 17th 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 October 4th, 2023, included a keynote address by Will Larson and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform at QCon SF 2023
At QConSF, Airbnb staff software engineer Nikhil Simha presented Chronon, Airbnb's solution to address the challenges of managing and serving the vast number of features used in machine learning models. The platform focuses on four key areas: core APIs, training data generation, feature serving, and feature observability.
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Disaster Recovery Across a Million Pieces: Michelle Brush at QCon San Francisco
During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Michelle Brush, an engineering director, SRE at Google, discussed challenges, patterns, and practices for disaster recovery actions in massively distributed systems in her session. The session is part of the "Designing for Resilience" track.
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Distributed Materialized Views: How Airbnb’s Riverbed Processes 2.4 Billion Daily Events
Airbnb created Riverbed, a Lambda-like data framework for producing and managing distributed materialized views. The framework supports over 50 read-heavy use cases where data is sourced from multiple data sources within the company’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform. It uses Apache Kafka and Apache Spark for online and offline components, respectively.
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QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 1: Architectures, Data Engineering, Infra Languages, Staff+ Skills
The 17th 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 One, scheduled on October 2nd, 2023, included a keynote address by Suhail Patel and presentations from four conference tracks and two sponsored tracks.
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Rethinking "Rethinking Reactivity" - Svelte 5 Introduces Runes
In their “Introducing runes” blog post, the Svelte team presents new syntax to express reactive dependencies in web applications. The extra syntax may increase the maintainability of complex web applications, further advancing Svelte’s enterprise readiness.
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Transitioning to SwiftUI at Airbnb
In 2022, the iOS team at Airbnb decided SwiftUI was sufficiently mature to be adopted for their official app. This required a careful transition, explains Airbnb staff engineer Bryn Bodayle.
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Nomura Leverages HashiCorp Consul for Microservices Discovery on AWS EC2
With the help of AWS and HashiCorp consultants, Nomura created a solution for service discovery for complex microservices environments. The solution leverages HashiCorp Consul and is based on a hierarchical, rule-based algorithm. It supports discovery by service name, DNS latency, and custom tags.
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Azure API Center Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure API Center - a part of the Azure API Management platform that serves as a central hub where users can keep track of all their APIs company-wide, making them readily discoverable, reusable, and manageable.
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Confluent Announces Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud in Open Preview
Confluent recently announced the open preview of Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud as a fully-managed service for stream processing. The company claims that the managed service will make it easier for companies to filter, join, and enrich data streams with Flink.
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Linkerd 2.14 Improves Support on Flat Networks and Gateway API Conformance
Version 2.14 of Linkerd, a service mesh and graduated CNCF project, has been released, with improved enterprise multi-cluster support, full Kubernetes Gateway API conformance, and many other changes.
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Digital Ocean Launches its Managed Kafka Service
Digital Ocean enters the arena of fully-managed Kafka services with its new offering aimed at simplifying management and maintenance of the popular event streaming platform. Digital Ocean Kafka targets startups and SMBs by offering them an all-inclusive, flat-rate pricing model.