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AWS Lambda Introduces Response Payload Streaming
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda functions can progressively stream response payloads back to the client. The new feature improves performance for web and mobile applications and is currently available for Node.js 14.x and newer runtimes, as well as custom ones.
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Amazon VPC Lattice Now GA with New Capabilities for Service-to-Service Connectivity
Announced in preview at the latest re:Invent conference, Amazon VPC Lattice is now generally available, with new capabilities for service-to-service connectivity, security, and monitoring. The pricing model raised some concerns in the community.
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AWS Supply Chain Now Generally Available with New Features
AWS’s Supply Chain cloud application has recently been made generally available, offering unified data, actionable insights powered by machine learning, and contextual collaboration features to reduce costs and mitigate risk.
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LocalStack 2.0: Open-Source Tool for Local Cloud Development Gets Significant Updates
The company LocalStack recently announced the general availability of LocalStack 2.0, an open-source tool for the local development and testing of cloud applications.
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From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native: Rosemary Wang at QCon London
Rosemary Wang, developer advocate at HashiCorp, delivered a presentation at QCon London that focused on five key considerations for technology practitioners looking to optimize the advantages of running platforms and applications in the cloud: adaptability, observability, immutability, elasticity, and changeability.
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Startup Fermyon Releases Spin 1.0 for WebAssembly Serverless Applications
Fermyon recently announced Spin 1.0, an open-source developer tool and framework for developing serverless applications with WebAssembly (Wasm).
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Microsoft Enhances Azure Learning with Learn Rooms
Microsoft recently announced a new offering for learning Azure with Learn Rooms, a part of the Microsoft Learn community designed to allow learners to connect with other learners and technical experts with similar interests in Azure.
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Azure Previews ND H100 V5 Virtual Machines to Accelerate Generative AI
Azure recently announced the preview of the ND H100 v5, virtual machines that integrate the latest Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and support Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. According to Microsoft, the new option will offer AI developers improved performance and scaling across thousands of GPUs.
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Google Announces Preview of AlloyDB Omni: Run a PostgreSQL-Compatible Database Anywhere
Google recently announced the preview of AlloyDB Omni, a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run on-premises, at the edge, across clouds, or even on developer laptops.
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Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Andrea Medda and Matt Boyle at QCon London
At QCon London, Andrea Medda, senior systems engineer at Cloudflare, and Matt Boyle, engineering manager at Cloudflare, shared the lessons their platform services team learned from enabling the use of Apache Kafka at the scale of 1 trillion messages.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service Introduces Security Analytics
Amazon recently announced the general availability of security analytics for OpenSearch Service. The new capability of the successor of ElasticSearch Service provides threat monitoring, detection, and alerting features to help manage security threats.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore Service
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, a fully-managed MongoDB-compatible database service that provides developers with a familiar architecture for building modern applications with native Azure integrations and a low total cost of ownership.
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Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
At QCon London, Holly Cummins, Quarkus senior principal software engineer at RedHat, talked about how utilization and elasticity relate to sustainability. In addition, she introduced a range of practical zombie-hunting techniques, including absurdly simple automation, LightSwitchOps, and FinOps.
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Cloud Provider Sustainability: the Need for a Workload Carbon Footprint Standard
Adrian Cockcroft, tech advisor and former VP for sustainability architecture at Amazon, shared his vision at QCon London on sustainability commitments for cloud providers and the current challenges in determining their supply chain carbon footprint. Cockcroft advocated for a new real-time carbon footprint standard.
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Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing
Erica Pisani, senior software engineer at Netlify, presented at QCon London on what edge is, how running code and serving data on the edge can improve site performance, and how to leverage these options effectively in a site to maximize site performance with minimal architectural changes.