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AWS Releases First Graviton3 Instances
AWS has recently announced the general availability of the C7g instances, the first EC2 instances running Graviton3 processors. Designed for compute-intensive workloads, they provide always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication.
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Amazon EKS Blueprints Streamline Bootstrapping Kubernetes Clusters
AWS has released EKS Blueprints, a collection of infrastructure as code (IaC) modules to simplify configuring and deploying EKS clusters. EKS Blueprints are currently implemented in both HashiCorp Terraform and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The blueprints have support for a number of open-source add-ons including Prometheus, Nginx, and Argo CD.
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Amazon Rekognition Introduces Streaming Video Events
AWS recently announced the general availability of Streaming Video Events, a new feature of Amazon Rekognition to provide real-time alerts on live video streams.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Container Apps at Build 2022
Last year at Ignite, Microsoft announced a cloud-native offering with Azure Container Apps, allowing developers to build microservice architectures using containers in preview. The company now announced the general availability of the service at the yearly Build conference.
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HashiCorp Vault Improves Eventual Consistency with Server-Side Consistent Tokens
HashiCorp has released Vault 1.10, introducing a number of new features to their secrets and identity management platform. Server-side consistent tokens provide greater control over the eventual consistency model when using performance standby nodes. Authentication can now be performed using the new open source login multi-factor authentication integration.
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Microsoft Releases Azure DNS Private Resolver in Public Preview
Azure DNS Private Resolver is a new service that enables customers to query Azure DNS private zones from an on-premises environment and vice versa without deploying VM-based DNS servers. This new service is fully-managed in Azure and in public preview.
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Amazon EC2 Supports NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot
AWS recently announced the general availability of the UEFI Secure Boot and of NitroTPM, a virtual TPM module for EC2 instances based on the AWS Nitro System. The new features are designed for boot-process validation, key protection and digital rights management.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 16 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 16 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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Effectively Monitoring Your Monitoring - Miedwar Meshbesher on Using Vigilance Controls
With many open-source and paid tools available to do the job, it can be relatively straightforward to make sure that your systems are monitored properly. But, how does a team make sure that these systems are working as described, and alert the team effectively that there’s a problem with the system that is supposed to be keeping an eye on things?
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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How to Prepare for the Unexpected: an InfluxData Outage Story Told at KubeCon EU 22
Cloud applications promise high availability and accessibility to its users, but for that to be achieved a disaster recovery plan is essential. The team behind InfluxDB shared at KubeConEU22 their lessons learned from battle testing their disaster recovery strategy on the day when they deleted the production.
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The Future of Java as Seen by Mark Little at Devoxx UK 22: Native Java, Adoptium and Faster Pace
Java is seeing a Renaissance period after it seemed to lose the cloud native stage to younger platforms. The Java ecosystem seems to be an express lane towards innovation, with many ongoing projects aiming to make it cloud friendlier, provide support at the language level and improve its runtime. Mark Little, VP of engineering at RedHat, zoomed in on these efforts in his Devoxx UK talk.
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AWS Introduces Storage-Optimized I4i Instances for IO-Heavy Workloads
AWS recently introduced the EC2 I4i instance type for data-intensive storage and IO-heavy workloads requiring fast access to medium-sized datasets. The new instances can benefit high-performance real-time relational databases, distributed file systems, data warehouses and key-value stores.
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Wave: a Case Study for Low Architectural Complexity
Dan Luu published an article presenting Wave as a case study for a business model where a simple and boring architecture fits best. Instead of a state-of-the-art service-based asynchronous architecture, they employ a synchronous monolith backed by a database and serving a unified API.
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Docker Launches Docker Extensions and Docker Desktop for Linux
At DockerCon 2022, Docker announced a way for developers to tap into Docker Desktop and extend its functionality using a new Extension SDK. Additionally, Docker Desktop is finally landing on Linux, providing the same experience available on macOS and Windows.