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Terraform Fork OpenTofu Adds Provider Iteration and Exclusions
Version 1.9.0 of OpenTofu - the infrastructure-as-code tool forked a year ago from Hashicorp's Terraform - has been released. This release brings several significant features, including provider iteration capabilities through `for_each`, to enable simplified multi-zone and multi-region deployments.
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HashiCorp Terraform 1.10 adds Ephemeral Values to Improve Secret Management
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.10, which introduces ephemeral values - a concept designed to protect sensitive information, such as passwords, which is often required to provision infrastructure with Terraform.
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Amazon Marks 10 Years of AWS Lambda by Releasing Initial Internal Document
Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, recently unveiled the internal design narrative that initiated the AWS Lambda project. The release of the PR/FAQ that sparked the development of one of Amazon’s most popular services offers a “peek behind the curtain” and highlights the initial vision for serverless computing at Amazon.
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How Recall.ai Saved $1M on AWS by Eliminating WebSockets
Recall.ai recently shared their experience running a platform for building and managing meeting bots on AWS, where they uncovered that using WebSockets was adding an extra 1M USD per year in costs. The team describes how they developed an alternative high-bandwidth, low-latency inter-process communication (IPC) solution to resolve the issue.
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No EC2 or Kubernetes Allowed: Insights from Building Serverless-Only Architecture at PostNL
PostNL shared insights and guidance from its transition from outsourced IT project delivery to an in-house product delivery capability. By embracing cloud-native technologies, with an emphasis on serverless services, the company achieved significant gains in productivity and market responsiveness while reducing operational costs.
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How AWS Well-Architected Framework Supports Frugal Architecture
AWS shared how to deliver frugal architecture using Well-Architectured Framework guidance. The authors outline areas of alignment between the WAF and the Frugal Architect laws Dr. Werner Vogels introduced in his re:Invent 2023 keynote. By implementing the frugal approach, organizations can achieve sustainability and cost optimization goals for their cloud architectures.
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Azure Advisor Well-Architected Assessment in Public Preview to Optimize Cloud Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure recently announced the public preview of the Advisor Well-Architected assessment. This self-guided questionnaire aims to provide tailored, actionable recommendations to optimize Azure resources while aligning with the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) principles.
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Inside Lyft’s Glow: How IoT Architecture Is Driving Smarter Ride Experiences
Lyft recently published how it built the Glow emblem, its newest Internet-of-Things (IoT) device. The Glow is actively rolling out in markets across the US, with over 30,000 live devices. Its architecture addresses many challenges in previous iterations, including a unified IoT middleware framework, robust provisioning and authentication mechanisms and advanced device control.
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AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog
AWS has recently announced updates to the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog. With a significant focus on security and observability, the new release has expanded guidance on architectural best practices to build and maintain optimized, secure, and resilient workloads in the cloud.
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People, Planet, Cloud and AI: Key Takeaways from QCon London
This year’s QCon London brought a wealth of talks directly or indirectly related to software architecture, ranging from the rise of AI to more established areas like anything cloud-related to the usual classics like architecture quality traits . The conference also featured many talks about sociotechnical aspects of software architecture and engineering and broadly considered sustainability.
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QCon London: Scaling Microservices Architecture and Technology Organization at Trainline
During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.
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Netflix Uses Metaflow to Manage Hundreds of AI/ML Applications at Scale
Netflix recently published how its Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team provides an ecosystem around Metaflow, an open-source machine learning infrastructure framework. By creating various integrations for Metaflow, Netflix already has hundreds of Metaflow projects maintained by multiple engineering teams.
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Uber's CacheFront: Powering 40M Reads per Second with Significantly Reduced Latency
Uber developed an innovative caching solution, CacheFront, for its in-house distributed database, Docstore. CacheFront enables over 40M reads per second from online storage and achieves substantial performance improvements, including a 75% reduction in P75 latency and over 67% reduction in P99.9 latency, demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing system efficiency and scalability.
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Slack Migrates to Cell-Based Architecture on AWS to Mitigate Gray Failures
Slack migrated most of the critical user-facing services from a monolithic to a cell-based architecture over the last 1.5 years. The move was triggered by the impact of networking outages affecting a single availability zone, causing user-impacting service degradation. The new architecture allows incrementally draining all the traffic away from the affected availability zone within 5 minutes.
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Amazon OpenSearch Zero ETL with S3 and New OR1 Instances
Amazon has announced the preview of the Amazon OpenSearch Service's zero-extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) integration with Amazon S3, offering a novel method to analyze operational logs in Amazon S3 and S3-based data lakes without the need to switch between services. Amazon also announced the new OR1 instances for Amazon OpenSearch Service.