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Slack Conquers Deployment Fears with Z-score Monitoring
An engineer at team communication platform Slack has written about confronting their fear of deployments and successfully implementing a bot to monitor them instead. Describing a seemingly scary delegation of responsibility, Sean McIlroy explains the reasoning and logic behind giving a pivotal role to their ReleaseBot in a detailed blog post.
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Amazon Announces One Billion Parameter Speech Model BASE TTS
Amazon Science recently published their work on Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities (BASE TTS). BASE TTS supports voice-cloning and outperforms baseline TTS models when evaluated by human judges. Further, Amazon's experiments show that scaling model and data size improves the subjective quality of the model's output.
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Mistral AI Models Are Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI has made its Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models available on Amazon Bedrock. These models, now accessible via Amazon Bedrock's single API, aim to offer users a broader selection of high-performing models for building generative AI applications.
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CNCF Survey: Half of Organizations Spend More with Kubernetes, Mostly Due to Overprovisioning
CNCF published the results of its latest microsurvey report on cloud-native FinOps and cloud financial management (CFM). Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents, while 28% stated their costs remain unchanged and 24% saved after migrating to Kubernetes. Respondents listed overprovisioning, lack of awareness and responsibility, and sprawl as the main factors for overspending.
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AWS CodePipeline Embraces Monorepos, GitFlow and Branches
AWS has announced new features in CodePipeline, their managed continuous delivery service facilitating automated release pipelines for application and infrastructure updates. These additions aim to support teams employing various delivery strategies, providing customers with more flexibility in their pipeline designs.
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Data Solutions Framework: an Open Source Project for Building Data Solutions on AWS
AWS recently released the Data Solutions Framework (DSF), an opinionated open-source framework designed to accelerate the creation of data solutions on AWS. Built using the AWS CDK, the framework exposes abstractions and patterns as building blocks for constructing data solutions and is available in TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPi).
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The Guardian Creates a Newsroom Collaboration Tool Using Serverless, React and GraphQL
The Guardian created Pinboard, a discussion and asset-sharing tool integrated into a variety of content management platforms used by the company. The solution uses a range of technologies, including Typescript for coding the business logic, different serverless services for code execution, API endpoints, and GraphQL server, as well as AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for storage.
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Azure Elastic Storage Area Network Solution Generally Available in the Cloud
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully-managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering.
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Docker Desktop 4.27 Brings Docker Init GA with Java Support, Synchronized File Shares, and More
Docker has released Docker Desktop 4.27. This version brings Docker Init GA with Java support, synchronized File Shares, support for Test Containers with Enhanced Container Isolation, Docker build cloud, Docker Debug and more.
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Booking.com Doubles Delivery Performance Using DORA Metrics and Micro Frontends
The team in Booking.com’s fintech business unit implemented a series of improvements across the backend and the frontend of its platform and was able to double the delivery performance, as measured by DORA metrics. Additionally, the Micro Frontends (MFE) pattern was used to break up the monolithic FE application into multiple decomposed apps that could be deployed separately.
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Amazon Q Data Integration in AWS Glue Simplifies Data Transformation on AWS
Recently, AWS announced the preview of a new feature for AWS Glue, enabling customers to use natural language for authoring and troubleshooting data integration jobs. With Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue, developers can provide a description of their data integration workload, and the service will generate an ETL script.
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Grab Improves Kafka on Kubernetes Fault Tolerance with Strimzi, AWS AddOns and EBS
Grab updated its Kafka on Kubernetes setup to improve fault tolerance and completely eliminate human intervention in case of unexpected Kafka broker terminations. To address the shortcomings of the initial design, the team integrated with AWS Node Termination Handler (NTH), used the Load Balancer Controller for target group mapping, and switched to ELB volumes for storage.
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Oracle Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1 Brings Java 21 Support, New Cloud Integrations, and More
Oracle has released the Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1, its own build of the open source Micronaut framework. This version brings support for Java 21 including Graal Native Image, cloud integration with Google Cloud Platform, new guides for Google Cloud, launcher and client updates, and more.
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AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps
AWS recently open-sourced its JavaScript runtime, called LLRT (Low Latency Runtime), an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
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Docker Build Cloud: Using Cloud Compute and Cache to Decrease Image Build Times
Docker recently announced the general availability of their cloud-based Container Image builder, Docker Build Cloud. Docker Build Cloud offers a remote shared-cache and native builders for AMD64 and ARM64 CPU architectures.