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AWS Introduces AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension to Improve Performances and Security
AWS recently announced the Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a new way for developers to retrieve parameters from Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from Secrets Manager. The Lambda extension caches parameters and secrets, reducing latency and costs.
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Amazon File Cache Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of File Cache, a managed high-speed cache for processing file data stored in disparate locations. The new service can be linked to multiple sources including on premises network file systems and managed AWS services like Amazon FSx or S3.
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Owl: Meta's New Hot-Content Distribution System
Meta recently revealed Owl, their new hot-content distribution system that provides high-fanout distribution of large data objects to hosts in Meta's private cloud. Owl consists of a decentralized data plane based on peer-to-peer distribution trees with a centralized control plane - tracker services that keep metadata about the peers, their cache state, and ongoing downloads.
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NGINX Controller Application Delivery Modules Improve Health Checks and Caching Configurations
NGINX has released new versions of their NGINX Controller Application Delivery Module, a control plane solution for NGINX Plus load balancers. The new features include enhanced workload health-checks, improvements to caching configuration, and instance groups.
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XCRemoteCache Aims to Speed up iOS App Build Times
Spotify created XCRemoteCache to reduce Xcode compile times. Recently open-sourced, XCRemoteCache can decrease clean build times by 70%, says Spotify.
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PlanetScale Introduces Managed Cloud to Scale MySQL Databases
The company behind the open-source Vitess database clustering system recently announced PlanetScale Managed Cloud, an option to run PlanetScale’s databases and management functionalities from existing public cloud accounts.
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How Pinterest Scaled up Its Ad-Serving Architecture
On the Pinterest Engineering Blog, Nishant Roy wrote about their strategy to overcome a scaling problem with their ad corpus. Their existing solution had hit its scaling limit, but further growth was necessary. Its redesign offloaded the ad index to a key-value store and optimised garbage collection in their Go applications to increase their ad corpus size by a factor of 60.
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Karmada 0.7: Next-Gen Multi-Cloud and Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
Karmada (Kubernetes Armada) 0.7, featuring a promising Kubernetes management system in the hybrid cloud era, became available on July 12, 2021. It brought multi-cluster service discovery, precise cluster status management, replica scheduling based on cluster resources, and more convenient APIs to divide replicas by weight list.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database. The new database service is intended for applications that require microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write performance with data durability and high availability.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new capability in Amazon ECS that enables customers to quickly run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs), bare-metal servers, and other customer-managed infrastructure.
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GitHub Scales Its Rate Limiter Using Redis
Yesterday GitHub engineer Robert Mosolgo posted a detailed account of how GitHub scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis. GitHub migrated from an older Memcached-based rate limiter to a Redis-based one. According to Mosolgo, the new implementation has improved reliability, fixed issues for clients, and reduced GitHub's support load.
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Google Releases Memorystore for Memcached into General Availability
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of Memorystore for Memcached, a fully-managed service compatible with open-source Memcached protocol. With the GA release of Memorystore for Memcached, the company now has two generally available managed caching service options for customers looking for a caching capability in the Google Cloud.
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Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance.
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UX Patterns: Stale-While-Revalidate
Stale-while-revalidate (SWR) caching strategies provide faster feedback to the user of web applications, while still allowing eventual consistency. Faster feedback reduces the necessity to show spinners and may result in better-perceived user experience.
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AWS Announces Redis 6 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features such as Managed Role-Based Access Control, Client-Side caching and some significant operational improvements.