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AWS Deadline Cloud: Q&A on the Cloud-Based Render Farm with Antony Passemard
AWS has recently introduced Deadline Cloud, a new service designed to help creative teams manage rendering tasks more efficiently. The service is particularly useful for customers in the media & entertainment (M&E) and architecture, engineering, & construction (AEC) industries who need to generate final frames for film, TV, games, industrial design visualizations, and other digital media.
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Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2: GitHub Copilot-Powered Pull Requests, SSDT Support for VS in ARM64
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2. This release contains features regarding GitHub Copilot-powered pull requests, support for SQL Server Developer Tools in VS on ARM64 and support for Garbage Collection Insights in Managed Memory Window.
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Enabling Software Platform Adoption with Self-Service and User Engagement
In order to scale a platform, it has to become a self-service product with software engineers and managers engaged, taking advantage of new technologies. A stakeholder engagement program was established with senior engineers and managers across the company, explaining how the new tools can increase developers' productivity and team velocity.
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Cloudflare D1, Workers Analytics Engine and Hyperdrive: Q&A with Rita Kozlov and Matt Silverlock
Cloudflare recently announced the “production ready” switch on three products: their serverless SQL database D1, time series Workers Analytics Engine, and Hyperdrive.
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Microsoft AI-Driven Security Tool Copilot for Security is Now GA
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Copilot for Security, a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) security product designed to help security and IT teams with the capabilities to protect their digital assets.
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Microsoft Azure Introduces Retina: a Cloud Native Container Networking Observability Platform
The Microsoft Azure Container Networking team recently announced an open-source project named Retina. This cloud-native container networking observability platform allows DevOps engineers and administrators to visualize, debug, and analyze workload traffic across diverse environments.
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KubeCon EU Keynotes: a Call to Action to Innovate Responsibly with Generative AI
The KubeCon EU morning keynotes were a veritable call to action encouraging the cloud-native community's involvement in building the scalable infrastructure needed by generative AI. This call was balanced with encouragement to make a cloud-native platform’s “golden path” green and sustainable, ensuring that any innovation is also responsible.
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Google Cloud Run Volume Mounts in Preview: Easier Access to Files in Containers
Google recently announced a new feature called volume mounts in preview. This feature aims to streamline the integration of cloud-native applications with shared data storage solutions, such as Cloud Storage buckets and NFS shares, directly within Cloud Run instances.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta Data and Jakarta NoSQL Milestones, Class-File API Targeted for JDK 23
This week's Java roundup for March 25th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 466, Class-File API (Second Preview), targeted for JDK 23; milestone releases of Jakarta Data and Jakarta NoSQL specifications; the second release candidate for JobRunr 7.0.0; and point releases for Spring projects, Quarkus, Helidon and LangChain4j.
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Kubecost Launches Version 2.0 with Network Monitoring
Kubecost, a Kubernetes cost monitoring and management solution, recently announced the launch of Kubecost 2.0, a major upgrade that brings many new features to help organizations better monitor, manage, and optimize their Kubernetes-related cloud expenses. Some of the new features include advanced network monitoring and improved cost forecasting powered by machine learning
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Netflix Launches bpftop Aimed at Enhancing eBPF Performance Efficiency
Netflix has recently announced bpftop, a command-line utility aimed at enhancing the optimization and monitoring of eBPF programs. bpftop provides a real-time snapshot of eBPF programs in operation. It shows metrics such as the average duration of program execution, the number of events processed every second, and an approximation of the total CPU usage percentage for each program.
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Improving GitHub Deployments with Merge Queue
Recently, Github talked about how they use merge queues for implementing code updates at GitHub. Merge queues have been developed and scaled to manage over 30,000 pull requests, alongside the corresponding 4.5 million CI executions, for GitHub.com.
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Elastic Enhances OpenTelemetry with Profiling Agent, Sharing System Health Insights to the Community
Elastic has recently declared its plan to donate its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry(OTel) project. This agent is an always-on, continuous profiling solution that eliminates the need for runtime or bytecode instrumentation, recompilation, on-host debug symbols or restarting services.
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KubeCon EU Highlights: CloudEvents & Falco Graduate, Beta Tetragon , Linkerd Meshes Legacy Systems
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon and CNCF EU conference, the count of CNCF graduated projects has reached twenty-six, as Cloud Events and Falco joined the “boring, but safe project list”. Linkerd added mesh extended capabilities for legacy systems; in this way, you can extend the governance and security policies of your mesh. The Beta version of Cilium Tetragon is deployed by early adopters.
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HashiCorp Released Version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes
Hashicorp recently released the version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes with a new feature: the ability to initiate workspace runs declaratively. The Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes was introduced in November 2023 with the goal to provide a Kubernetes-native experience while leveraging Terraform workflows