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Networking Cost Estimations and Analysis with Open-Source AWS Networking Cost Calculator
AWS has launched the Networking Costs Calculator, an open-source tool enabling users to estimate and visualize AWS networking charges effortlessly. With a serverless backend and a user-friendly ReactJS interface, it simplifies complex cost assessments. Ideal for optimizing networking budgets, this innovative calculator enhances cost transparency in cloud services.
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Grafana K6 Releases: Enhancements in TypeScript, ECMAScript, Browser Testing, and More
The Grafana k6 team releases a new version of its open-source load testing tool approximately every two months, bringing new features and improving user experience. Several recent updates have introduced key improvements, notably related to TypeScript support, ECMAScript compatibility, and enhancements to browser testing, gRPC, memory management, cryptography, and test result storage.
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Spotify's Dashboard Portal: Empowering Data-Driven Decision-Making through Quality and Accessibility
Spotify recently explained their Dashboard Quality Framework, a standardized practice to ensure the accuracy and consistency of dashboards across the organization. The internal Dashboard Portal powered by the Dashboard Quality Framework enables the users to easily search for existing dashboards across the organization.
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Google Proposes Adding Pipe Syntax to SQL
In a recent paper titled "SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them", a research team at Google proposed the introduction of a new Pipe Syntax in SQL. Google's solution to address perceived limitations in SQL is currently available in the GoogleSQL and ZetaSQL dialects, but it has received mixed feedback from the community.
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QCon London: Learnings from Automating Deployments
Copying and pasting code from one Windows folder to another as a deployment method can cause downtime. Jemma Hussein Allen presented how they automated their deployments and the benefits that they got from it at QCon London.
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Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview
Microsoft’s new customer-managed planned failover for Azure Storage enhances disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundancy without data loss or reconfiguration. This proactive solution supports business continuity during outages and large-scale disasters, aligning with competitive offerings from AWS and Google Cloud.
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.NET 9 Release Candidate 1: Approaching Final Release with Updates across the Framework
Last week, Microsoft released the first release candidate for the upcoming .NET 9 framework, which includes a range of updates across its core components, such as the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, and frameworks like ASP.NET Core and .NET MAUI.
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New Platform sbomify Streamlines Making Software Inventories for SBOMs
A new platform named sbomify has been announced to address the growing challenges businesses face in managing and sharing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). The platform aims to automate and simplify SBOM processes as regulatory requirements increase across industries.
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Stability AI Announces Integration of Top Text-to-Image Models with Amazon Bedrock
Stability AI has introduced three new text-to-image models to Amazon Bedrock: Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, and Stable Image Core. These models focus on improving performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and typography. They are designed to generate high-quality visuals for various use cases in marketing, advertising, media, entertainment, retail, and more.
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Kubernetes v1.31 Released: Enhanced Security, Stability, and AI/ML Support
The Kubernetes project has recently announced the release of version 1.31, codenamed "Elli". This version incorporates 45 enhancements, with 11 features reaching Stable status, 22 moving to Beta, and 12 new Alpha features introduced.
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AWS Announces General Availability of EC2 P5e Instances, Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched EC2 P5e instances featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, substantially boosting AI and HPC performance. With enhanced memory bandwidth, these instances reduce latency for real-time applications. Ideal for tasks like LLM training and simulations, they offer improved scalability and cost-efficiency, making them pivotal for modern cloud computing.
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Leveraging eBPF for Improved Infrastructure Observability
To efficiently and effectively investigate multi-tenant system performance, Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect "noisy neighbors".
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Java 23 Delivers Markdown Documentation, ZGC Generational Mode, Deprecate sun.misc.Unsafe
Oracle has released version 23 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 12 JEPs. Three of these - Markdown Documentation Comments, ZGC: Generational Mode by Default and Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal - are final features without having gone through the preview process.
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Apple Open-Sources Multimodal AI Model 4M-21
Researchers at Apple and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have open-sourced 4M-21, a single any-to-any AI model that can handle 21 input and output modalities. 4M-21 performs well "out of the box" on several vision benchmarks and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.
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ASP.NET Core 9 RC 1: Keep-Alive Timeouts for Websockets, Improved SignalR Tracing, and More
Last week, Microsoft released the first Release Candidate of .NET 9. This is the first Go-live version of the new framework, expected to be released later this year, and it consolidates significant updates to ASP.NET Core. Among the new features are: Keep-alive timeout for WebSockets, support for Keyed DI services in middleware, and improvements to SignalR distributed tracing.