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Microsoft Introduces Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a new generally available (GA) service to build cloud-native relational applications. It is a distributed relational database offering with the scale, flexibility, and performance of Azure Cosmos DB.
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Google Cloud Deploy Adds Deployment Verification, Support for Cloud Run
Google has added deployment verification capabilities to its Google Cloud Deploy tool. This new feature is in preview release and makes use of recent updates to Skaffold. Along with this announcement, Google has also added support for Cloud Run to Google Cloud Deploy.
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Open Source Skyplane Targets Faster and Cheaper Data Transfers between Clouds
A team of researchers at the RISELab at UC Berkeley has recently released Skyplane, an open source tool to optimize the transfer of large datasets between cloud providers, reducing transfer times and costs.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Deployment Environments
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Deployment Environments. This managed service enables dev teams to quickly spin up app infrastructure with project-based templates to establish consistency and best practices while maximizing security, compliance, and cost-efficiency.
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Threat Operations and Research Team Cloudforce One Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced that the threat operations and research team Cloudforce One began conducting briefings and is now generally available. Available as an add-on subscription, Cloudforce One includes threat data and briefings, security tools, and the ability to make requests for information (RFIs) to the team.
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Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High Performance on Deep Learning Training Models Now Available
AWS announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium Chips. Trn1 instances deliver the highest performance on deep learning training of popular machine learning models on AWS, while offering up to 50% cost-to-train savings over comparable GPU-based instances.
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GitLab Cloud Seed Aims to Simplify Google Cloud Integration
At Google Next '22, GitLab launched GitLab Cloud Seed, a new open-source solution integrated in GitLab One DevOps platform that aims to simplify Google Cloud account management, deployment to Google Cloud Run, and Google SQL database provisioning.
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Apache InLong: Integration Framework for Massive Data
Apache InLong, an integration framework designed for massive data, was originally built at Tencent, where it was used in production for more than eight years, to support massive data reporting services in big data scenarios. The project officially graduated as an Apache top-level project three years after the introduction of the project in the Apache Incubator.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Firewall Basic for Small-Medium Businesses
Microsoft recently released the public preview of Azure Firewall Basic for small-medium businesses (SMBs), providing enterprise-grade security at an affordable price. The company offers the Basic SKU as it sees SMBs as particularly vulnerable to budget constraints and gaps in specialized security skills.
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Grab Shared Its Experience in Designing Distributed Data Platform
GrabApp is an application that customers select and buy their daily needs from merchants. To be scalable and manageable the data platform and ingestion should be designed as a distributed, fault-tolerant. To design this data platform two classes of data stores are considered: OLTP and OLAP.
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Cloudflare Previews Globally Distributed Queues without Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the private beta of Cloudflare Queues, a message queuing service that allows applications to send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers. The new service provides at-least once message delivery, supports batching of messages, and does not charge bandwidth egress fees.
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Google Distroless Images Achieve SLSA Level 2
Google announced that their distroless builds meet level 2 of the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA). Level 2 requires that the build process for these images is tamper resistant. This improves on their previous release which saw all images being signed with cosign.
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Amazon File Cache Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of File Cache, a managed high-speed cache for processing file data stored in disparate locations. The new service can be linked to multiple sources including on premises network file systems and managed AWS services like Amazon FSx or S3.
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MIT Technology Review Insights Survey on Zero Trust in Cybersecurity
MIT Technology Review released their findings from the Zero trust closes the end-user gap in cybersecurity on Sep 19, 2022. This report focused on the approach to cybersecurity and mainly demonstrates how organizations go beyond passwords to embrace a new approach to defending against cyberattacks.
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Reliable Continuous Testing Requires Automation
Automation makes it possible to build a reliable continuous testing process that covers the functional and non-functional requirements of the software. Preferably this automation should be done from the beginning of product development to enable quick release and delivery of software and early feedback from the users.