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Runtime Security Project Falco Adds Extensible Plugin Framework
Falco, a cloud-native runtime security project, has released version 0.31.0. This release introduces a new plugin system for defining additional event sources and event extractors to Falco. The plugin system includes SDKs to simplify development and this release ships with a new AWS CloudTrail plugin.
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LambdaML: Pros and Cons of Serverless for Deep Network Training
A new study entitled "Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training" aims to provide an experimental analysis of training deep networks by leveraging serverless platforms. FaaS for training has challenges due to its distributed nature and aggregation step in the learning algorithms. Results indicate FaaS can be a faster (for lightweight models) but not cheaper alternative than IaaS.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Payment HSM in Public Preview for the Payment Card Industry
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview of a bare-metal infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Azure Payment HSM that provides cryptographic key operations for real-time payment transactions in Azure. It uses the Thales payShield 10K payment HSMs, which delivers a suite of payment security functionality proven in critical environments.
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Microsoft Adds New Services for Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms
Azure Maps Weather Services is a part of the Microsoft Azure Maps Service. It offers a set of RESTful APIs, allowing developers to integrate highly dynamic historical, real-time, forecasted weather data and visualizations into their solutions. Recently, they announced three new services with historical weather, air quality, and tropical storms.
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Google's Managed Continuous Delivery Service for Kubernetes Moves to GA
Google has announced the GA release of Google Cloud Deploy, their managed continuous delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine. The service provides declarative builds that persist with a given release, support for connecting external workflows, and detailed security and auditing controls
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Ephemeral Containers Ease Debuggability in Kubernetes 1.23
Ephemeral containers in Kubernetes 1.23 provide a way to attach temporary containers to a running pod’s process namespace and run debugging utilities.
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MicroVM Virtualization Solution Firecracker Reaches 1.0
Originally developed at AWS to power AWS Lambda, Firecracker enables creating and managing secure microVMs for serverless computing.
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Amazon Announces Elastic File System Replication for Multi-Region Deployments
Amazon recently announced Elastic File System Replication to keep an up-to-date copy of a network file system in a second AWS region or within the same region.
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Docker Desktop Best Practices for Code Sharing
In a recent article, Docker engineer Stephen Turner shared a few best practices to help developers understand file sharing between a Docker container and its local host and how its performance varies across OSes.
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CNCF Publishes State of Cloud Native Development Report
CNCF has published the latest edition of the State of Cloud Native Development Report. An important finding from the report indicates that the cloud native developer population has grown by 0.3 million during the period from Q1 2020 to Q1 2021. Edge computing has the highest usage rates of containers and Kubernetes, with 63% of edge developers adopting Kubernetes and 76% adopting containers.
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Q&A with Matthew Farina of SUSE Regarding Kubernetes Rancher Desktop
InfoQ caught up with Matthew Farina, software architect at SUSE, regarding Rancher Desktop 1.0.0, talking about the challenges of Kubernetes and container management on the desktop and how it influenced the design and evolution of the Rancher Desktop.
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Google Introduces Autoscaling for Cloud Bigtable for Optimizing Costs
Cloud Bigtable is a fully-managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large operational and analytical workloads on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). And recently, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of Bigtable Autoscaling, which automatically adds or removes capacity in response to the changing demand for applications allowing cost optimizations.
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Amazon OpenSearch Adds Anomaly Detection for Historical Data
Amazon OpenSearch recently introduced the support of anomaly detection for historical data. The machine learning based feature helps identifying trends, patterns, and seasonality in OpenSearch data.
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Austrian DPA Ruling against Google Analytics Paves the Way to EU-based Cloud Services
In a recent ruling, the Austrian data regulator declared the use of Google Analytics unlawful based on EU GDPR regulation. While the ruling is very specifically argued and worded, its implications go well beyond this particular case.
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How AI Supports IT Operators to Resolve Issues Faster and Keep Systems Running
AIOps is all about equipping IT teams with algorithms that can help in quicker evaluation, remediation or actionable insights based on their historical data without the need to solicit feedback from users directly. AI can help IT operators to work smart, resolve issues faster and keep the systems up and running to deliver great end-user experience.