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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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GitHub Advanced Security Generally Available for Azure DevOps
Microsoft announced the general availability of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, allowing users to integrate code, secret, and dependency scanning into their Azure Repos and benefit from the latest updates.
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QCon SF 2023: Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno by Ryan Dahl
Ryan Dahl, Co-Founder and CEO at Deno and Software Engineer best known for creating Node.js, presented “Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno” at QCon San Francisco 2023. Dahl introduced Deno, an open source next-generation JavaScript runtime, and discussed the benefits of using this framework. Dahl also provided numerous demos on how to build and deploy cloud applications with Deno.
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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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An Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization: Erik Peterson at QCon San Francisco
A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented during day three at QCon San Francisco about the engineering’s perspective on cloud cost optimization. His session was part of the “Architecting for the Cloud” track.
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Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at Capital One: George Mao at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, George Mao, a senior distinguished engineer at Capital One, presented on his company's journey into serverless, the best practices they picked up, and the lessons learned along the way. The session was part of the “Architecting for the Cloud” track.
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AWS Lambda under the Hood: Mike Danilov at QCon San Francisco
During the first day of QCon Dan-Francisco 2023, Mike Danilov, a senior principal engineer at AWS, presented on AWS Lambda and what is under the hood. The talk is a part of the “Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About.” Danilov's talk centered around invoke routing, compute infrastructure, and cold starts topics.
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Scale Higher Per-Database Storage Limits and Create More Databases with Cloudflare D1 Open Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of its D1 serverless relational database built on SQLite. The open beta of D1 continues on earlier company investments, with the most recent enhanced performance. With the open beta of D1, the company adds higher per-database storage limits and the ability to create more databases.
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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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Microsoft Announces a New Azure SQL Database Free Offer in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new Azure SQL Database free offering. This offering provides users a 32 GB General Purpose, serverless Azure SQL database with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute free monthly.
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Amazon EBS Volumes Support Storage Fencing Using NVMe Reservations
AWS recently introduced support for NVMe reservations, a set of industry-standard storage fencing protocols, on io2 and io2 Block Express EBS volumes. Controlling and coordinating access from multiple instances to a shared volume, reservations are used by shared storage applications to ensure data consistency.
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Generative AI Service AWS Bedrock Now Generally Available
After announcing Bedrock last April in preview, Amazon is now making its fully-managed service for generative AI apps generally available.
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Docker 4.22 Introduces Resource Saver and Improvements to Docker Compose
Docker Desktop 4.22 has been released, featuring the new Resource Saver functionality designed to reduce idle memory and CPU usage, ensuring optimal utilization of machine resources. Additionally, Docker Compose now supports the inclusion of subprojects, simplifying the process of modularizing complex applications into separate Compose files.
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CRI-O Graduates from CNCF, Sees Increased Adoption in Cloud Native Environments
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the graduation of the CRI-O project which provides a secure, performant, and stable Container Runtime Interface (CRI) implementation for kubelet in Kubernetes production environments. The project has been adopted by seven new organizations, released 11 new minor versions, and had more than 4,000 commits to the main branch.
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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.