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Amazon Q Data Integration in AWS Glue Simplifies Data Transformation on AWS
Recently, AWS announced the preview of a new feature for AWS Glue, enabling customers to use natural language for authoring and troubleshooting data integration jobs. With Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue, developers can provide a description of their data integration workload, and the service will generate an ETL script.
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Google Introduces Firestore Multiple Databases
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Firestore Multiple Databases. The new feature is designed to isolate customer data and facilitate the management of microservices, as well as development, test, and staging environments.
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Oracle Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1 Brings Java 21 Support, New Cloud Integrations, and More
Oracle has released the Graal Cloud Native 4.2.1, its own build of the open source Micronaut framework. This version brings support for Java 21 including Graal Native Image, cloud integration with Google Cloud Platform, new guides for Google Cloud, launcher and client updates, and more.
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AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps
AWS recently open-sourced its JavaScript runtime, called LLRT (Low Latency Runtime), an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
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.NET Aspire Preview 3: Expanded Component Support with Azure OpenAI, MySQL, CosmosDB, Kafka and More
Last week, Microsoft revealed the availability of the .NET Aspire - third preview. Preview 3 brings changes including UI improvements to the dashboard, and new component support for Azure OpenAI, Kafka, Oracle, MySQL, CosmosDB & Orleans, and many more.
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AI and FinOps Predicted to Lead Observability Innovation in 2024
In recently published articles, three large observability companies have made predictions for the trends we will see in the observability area in 2024 and beyond. These contributions suggest that the fields of AI Integration, FinOps, OpenTelemetry and Security and Governance will impact observability significantly in the year ahead.
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Docker Build Cloud: Using Cloud Compute and Cache to Decrease Image Build Times
Docker recently announced the general availability of their cloud-based Container Image builder, Docker Build Cloud. Docker Build Cloud offers a remote shared-cache and native builders for AMD64 and ARM64 CPU architectures.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Modifies Pricing Model for Cloud Deployments
Red Hat has recently announced a revised pricing tied to vCPU count for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployments across major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The updated pricing will be effective on April 1st and has sparked concerns among certain users.
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TLS 1.3 Preview Now Available in Azure API Management
Azure API Management is set to introduce TLS 1.3 support in its V1 and V2 tiers starting in the initial week of February 2024. According to Microsoft, the rollout will occur progressively across regions. Inbound traffic for both V1 and V2 tiers will inherently support TLS 1.3 for incoming requests from API clients.
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Enhancing Observability: Amazon CloudWatch Logs Introduces Account-Level Subscription Filter
The recent update to Amazon CloudWatch Logs introduces support for account-level subscription filtering. With this enhancement, developers can now access a real-time feed of CloudWatch Logs from all logs groups and have it delivered to a single destination for further processing.
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InfoQ & QCon Events: Level up on Generative AI, Security, Platform Engineering, and More Upcoming
As we navigate through these transformative times, the upcoming InfoQ events stand as a platform to help you stay ahead, learn valuable insights, and find practical solutions to your development challenges in 2024 and beyond. The events are carefully curated for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders, offering practitioner insights into emerging trends, patterns, and practices.
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Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API for Enhanced Resource Insight Gathering
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API, which makes resource insight gathering more efficient by providing developers with the capability to retrieve the metric data for up to 50 resource IDs in the same subscription and region in a single batch API call, thus improving query throughput and reducing the risk of throttling.
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AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption
AWS announced the general availability (GA) of CDK Migrate, a component of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK – an open source project), which enables developers to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates, previously deployed CloudFormation stacks or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into a CDK application.
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ScaleOps Automates Rightsizing to Reduce Kubernetes Costs
ScaleOps, a startup working in the cloud resource management sector, has unveiled a fully-automated cloud-native cost saving platform. ScaleOps claims to slash cloud costs by up to 80%, with a fully-automated platform that continuously optimizes and manages cloud-native resources during runtime.
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Public Preview of the Arc Visual Studio Code Extension
Microsoft recently introduced the Arc Visual Studio Code Extension in public review. This extension improves the developer experience for both workloads that are running on the Edge and services that are built to be published on the Azure Marketplace.