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Microsoft Dev Box Now in Public Preview
Azure recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Dev Box, a workstation in the cloud targeted to developers. Integrated with Windows 365, the new service supports any developer IDE, SDK, or tool that runs on Windows and simplifies onboarding of new developers.
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Slack Implements Circuit Breakers to Improve CI/CD Pipeline Availability
Slack recently published how it implemented the Circuit Breaker pattern to improve its CI/CD pipeline availability. Before this project, engineers at Slack saw challenges as peak request volumes in internal tooling caused cascade failures in dependent systems. Since completion, engineers saw increased service availability and fewer bad developer experiences like flakiness from failing services.
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AWSGoat Open-Source Project for Pen Testing AWS Cloud Solutions
AWSGoat is a vulnerable-by-design infrastructure on AWS, featuring the latest released OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and other misconfiguration based on services such as IAM, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, and ECS. It mimics real-world infrastructure with additional flaws and uses a black-box approach, including multiple escalation paths.
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Programming Observability: Measuring the Maturity of Observability as Code
Observability can be programmed and automated with observability as code. A maturity model can be used to measure and improve the adoption of observability as code implementation. Yury Niño Roa, cloud infrastructure engineer at Google, spoke about programming observability at InfoQ live August 2022.
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Google Cloud Blocks Largest Layer 7 DDoS Attack
Google claims to have recently fended off the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed denial of service attack, which peaked at 46 million requests per second. According to the cloud provider, the DDoS attack was quickly detected and stopped at the edge of Google’s network, and the customer was not impacted.
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Amazon Announces New Capabilities on Local Environments for SageMaker Canvas and Pipelines
Amazon is announcing multiple capabilities for SageMaker, including expanded capabilities to better prepare and analyze data for machine learning, faster onboarding with automatic data import from local disk in SageMaker Canvas, and the testing of machine learning workflows in local environments for SageMaker Pipelines.
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Discover, Copy, and Share Common Code with the New AWS Serverless Snippets Collection
Recently, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team released the Serverless Snippets Collection. This new Serverless Land page makes it easier to find, copy, and share common code that can enhance productivity in serverless application development.
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AWS Brings Support for GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio Events to Amazon EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that allows AWS services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events. The service now supports integrations with GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio via webhooks using Quicks Starts.
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AWS Private 5G Mobile Network Generally Available But without 5G Support
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Private 5G, a managed service to set up and deploy private mobile networks. The current lack of 5G support, the minimum price of a radio unit and the availability only in the United States raised some concerns in the community.
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Amazon's AlexaTM 20B Model Outperforms GPT-3 on NLP Benchmarks
Researchers at Amazon Alexa AI have announced Alexa Teacher Models (AlexaTM 20B), a 20-billion-parameter sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) language model that exhibits state-of-the-art performance on 1-shot and few-shot NLP tasks. AlexaTM 20B outperforms GPT-3 on SuperGLUE and SQuADv2 benchmarks while having fewer than 1/8 the number of parameters.
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Azure Optimized Stack with DeepSpeed for Hyperscale Model Training
Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) now provides an optimized stack that uses the latest NVIDIA GPU technology with Quantum InfiniBand to efficiently train and fine-tune large models like Megatron-Turing and GPT-3.
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Google Announces Three New Regions in Asia Pacific
Google has a global network of 34 regions and 103 availability zones, bringing its Cloud services to customers in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Recently, the company announced that it would expand its presence to three new cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand.
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Dealing with Cognitive Load Using Observability
We can make good decisions with speed when we limit the cognitive load on any one person or team. Observability can help to increase delivery speed, by providing information to developers that helps them to make decisions quickly.
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New Microsoft Defender Products: Threat Intelligence and External Attack Surface Management
Microsoft recently announced two security products: Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management. These new products are driven by their acquisition of RiskIQ just over a year ago.
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AWS Adds Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer to Lambda Console
AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer in the AWS Lambda console. Available as a native code suggestion feature in the code editor, the new functionality of the coding assistant can make code recommendations during Lambda function definition.