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Amazon GuardDuty Adds EKS Runtime Monitoring and RDS Protection
Amazon GuardDuty added Amazon EKS Runtime Monitoring and RDS Protection for Amazon Aurora. EKS Runtime Monitoring can detect runtime threats from over 30 different security findings. RDS Protection adds support for profiling and monitoring access activity to Aurora databases.
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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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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Release Schedule, Payara Platform, JBang, JHipster, WildFly
This week's Java roundup for March 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.3, Spring point and milestone releases, Payara Platform, Quarkus 3.0.CR1, Micronaut 3.8.8, WildFly 28 Beta1, Hibernate ORM 6.2, Groovy 4.0.11, Camel 3.20.3, James 3.7.4, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.1, JHipster Quarkus Blueprint 2.0, JHipster Lite 0.30, JBang 0.106, Gradle 8.1-CR2 and new Foojay.io calendar.
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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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Strategies and Principles to Scale and Evolve MLOps - at QCon London
At the QCon London conference, Hien Luu, senior engineering manager for the Machine Learning Platform at DoorDash, discussed strategies and principles for scaling and evolving MLOps. With 85% of ML projects failing, understanding MLOps at an engineering level is crucial. Luu shared three core principles: "Dream Big, Start Small," "1% Better Every Day," and "Customer Obsession."
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AWS Data on EKS Provides Opinionated Data Workload Blueprints
AWS has released Data on EKS (DoEKS), an open-source project providing templates, guidance, and best practices for deploying data workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). While the main focus is on running Apache Spark on Amazon EKS, blueprints also exist for other data workloads such as Ray, Apache Airflow, Argo Workflows, and Kubeflow.
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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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GitLab Ultimate Adds Code Viewing Ability for Guest Roles
GitLab has added customizable roles to its Ultimate subscription, enabling customers to define their roles, based on the current Guest role. The minimal viable change allows Ultimate users to add one additional permission to the Guest role, which grants users the ability to view code, known as Guest+1.
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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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KubeEdge Achieves SLSA Level 3 Compliance
KubeEdge, a CNCF incubating project, recently met the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) 3 compliance. SLSA 3 certifies the end-to-end security of KubeEdge's software supply chain process, ensuring that binary and container image artifacts are protected from malicious tampering.
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BBC’s Enablement Team Principles Focus on Openness, Collaboration, and Respect
At QCon London BBC shared the five enablement principles paving the road for their teams towards improved development and release processes. Steph Egan shared techniques, challenges and learnings from her team’s journey, with the major takeaway being that the principles have almost nothing to do with the tools themselves.
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Celebrity Vulnerabilities: Effective Response to Critical Production Threats
Alyssa Miller, chief information security officer of EpiqGlobal, presented at QCon London about the lessons learned from three major open-source security events, the Equifax breach via Struts, the Log4j vulnerabilities, and the Spring4Shell exploit.
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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.
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Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks CTO: by 2025 We'll See Evolution in Architecture, But Not Revolution
On the second day of the QCon London conference, Rebecca Parsons, chief technical officer at Thoughtworks, revisited the idea of evolutionary architecture imaging how it might evolve until 2025. Starting from the definition, she visited each of the definitory attributes anticipating how they will evolve in the next period. Concluding that we will see evolution, but not a revolution.
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Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry
Daniel Gomez Blanco, principal engineer at Skyscanner, shared his experiences at QCon London on a large-scale observability initiative at his company, based on adopting OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services and the motivation and value gained from adopting open standards across the entire organization.