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Cloudflare Grows Its Serverless Ecosystem with New Observability Integrations
Cloudflare recently announced several new observability integrations for Workers, its serverless product. In a blog post, the company described integrations with six vendors: Sentry, New Relic, Datadog, Splunk, Sumologic, and Honeycomb. The new capabilities are a boost to the Workers ecosystem, and will appeal to enterprises that already use these observability vendors.
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AWS Launches EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools
AWS recently released Warm Pools for EC2 Auto Scaling, which reduces the time and cost to scale out (aka horizontal scaling) applications by maintaining a pool of pre-initialized instances.
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Confluent Announces Confluent for Kubernetes into General Availability
Recently, Confluent announced the general availability (GA) of Confluent for Kubernetes, a complete, declarative API-driven experience for deploying and self-managing Confluent Platform as a cloud-native system. With Confluent for Kubernetes, the company packages its event-streaming platform into Kubernetes and provides a Cloud-Native offering.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of May 17th, 2021
.NET News Roundup: Giraffe 5.0, Azure SDK, updates to the .NET Framework, Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, Uno Platform, and AvaloniaUI.
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Growing Concerns among Developers about the AWS Free Tier
In recent weeks many experts in the AWS community have been advocating for sandbox accounts on AWS and hard billing limits that cannot be exceeded to let engineers experiment with new services without jeopardizing their personal well-being.
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Amazon Introduces Incident Manager for Automated Response Plans
AWS recently introduced Incident Manager, a new capability of AWS Systems Manager that helps customers prepare and respond to application and infrastructure incidents.
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Ambassador Developer Control Plane Integrates Common Kubernetes Full Lifecycle Tooling
Ambassador Labs announced the release of their Developer Control Plane (DCP). The DCP brings together tooling to support the full development and operations of Kubernetes based services. This includes popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools such as Argo, Telepresence, and Envoy Proxy.
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Amazon Open Sources DeepRacer Device Software
Amazon has recently open-sourced the DeepRacer device software, the software used to run AWS DeepRacer. The 1/18th scale autonomous vehicle and the DeepRacer events allow developers to create machine learning models and race them in a cloud based 3D racing simulator.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Static Web Apps into General Availability
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Static Web Apps, a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps. The service provides developers with one package that works for static web apps – which Azure manages for them.
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Aqua Security's Latest Report Highlights Increase in Cloud Attacks
Aqua Security published a report outlining their analysis of a year's worth of security remediation data. This report found that nearly no organization addressed all identified issues with enterprise organizations taking on average 88 days to resolve the issues they do address. Their analysis found a large increase in attacks against container-based and cloud-native infrastructure.
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AWS Announces a Data Management and Analytics Solution Called Amazon FinSpace
Recently, AWS announced a data management and analytics solution purpose-built for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) called Amazon FinSpace. The service aims to reduce the time it takes for financial analysts to find and access all types of financial data for analysis.
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Airbnb Builds Himeji - a Scalable Centralized Authorization System
Airbnb recently described how it built Himeji, a scalable centralized authorization system. Himeji stores permissions data and performs permission checks as a central source of truth. It uses a sharded and replicated in-memory cache to improve performance and lower latencies and has served checks in production for about a year.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of CloudFront Functions
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of CloudFront Functions, a new edge computing capability. With this new CloudFront feature, customers can run JavaScript functions across the Cloud Front edge locations worldwide.
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New Exploit Breaks Current Spectre Defenses; Fixes Hard without Performance Impact
Researchers from the University of Virginia School of Engineering recently disclosed a new Spectre hardware exploit that can steal secrets via Intel/AMD micro-op caches and circumvents current Spectre defenses. Intel and AMD say no new guidance is needed. Researchers say suggested fixes are inconvenient to deploy or have performance drawbacks.
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How GitHub Leverages Feature Flags to Ship Quickly and Safely
In a recent blog post, Alberto Gimeno, GitHub actions engineer, shared how GitHub makes use of feature flags to enable frequent, safe deployments. GitHub leverages feature flags for all potentially risky changes, allowing them to quickly disable the change if needed.