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Slack's Lessons Learned from Supporting Highly Regulated Workloads on AWS GovCloud
Archie Gunasekara, staff software engineer at Slack, and Andrew Martin, staff software engineer at Slack, recently shared their learnings in building GovSlack, an instance of Slack running on the AWS GovCloud region. They shared challenges in adapting to unsupported services, account creation, and account isolation.
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AWS Gives Developers More Control over Lambda Function Runtime with Runtime Management Controls
AWS recently introduced runtime management controls, which provide more visibility and control when Lambda applies runtime updates to functions.
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Google Boosts Sandboxed Container File System Performance by Improving gVisor
Google improved the file system implementation in gVisor, the open source isolation layer used in its commercial container-oriented offerings, such as App Engine, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions. According to Google engineers Ayush Ranjan and Fabricio Voznika, the new gVisor file system, dubbed VFS2, may improve performance of file-intensive workloads by 50%-75% approximately.
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Google Releases Kubernetes GitOps Observability Dashboard
Google Cloud introduced Config Management Dashboard that allows the Platform Administrator or Operator to have a real-time picture of configuration syncs and failures across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
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Docker BuildKit Adds Support for Supply Chain Security Practices and Cache Backends
Docker has released version 0.11 of BuildKit, the Docker backend for building images. The release adds a number of new features including attestation creation, reproducible build improvements, and cloud cache backend support.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 20 in Rampdown Phase 2, New JEP Drafts, JobRunr 6.0, GraalVM 22.3.1
This week's Java roundup for January 23rd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, JDK 21, GraalVM 22.3.1, TornadoVM 0.15, Spring Cloud Azure 5.0, Spring Shell 3.0.0 and 2.1.6, Spring Cloud 2022.0.1, Quarkus 2.16 and 3.0.Alpha3, Micronaut 3.8.3, JobRunr 6.0, MicroStream 8.0-EA2, Hibernate 6.2.CR2, Tomcat 10.1.5, Groovy 4.0.8 and 2.5.21, Camel Quarkus 2.16, JDKMon 17.0.45 and Foojay.io at FOSDEM.
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GCP Adds Simplified Operator for Connecting Google Kubernetes Engine to Cloud SQL
Google Cloud has released a public preview of Cloud SQL Proxy Operator. The operator simplifies the process of connecting an application running in Google Kubernetes Engine with a database deployed in Cloud SQL.
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HC-tree is a High-Concurrency Backend for SQLite Supporting Replication
HC-tree is a project aimed at building a new backend for SQLite specifically optimized for high-concurrency and lead-follower style replication. While still experimental, HC-tree can be used as an SQLite drop-in replacement, albeit with limitations.
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How Palo Alto Approaches Platform Engineering
Ramesh Nampelly, senior director of cloud infrastructure and platform engineering at Palo Alto, recently wrote about how Palo Alto approaches platform engineering. They built their own internal developer platform (IDP) based on the open-source tool Backstage. Their platform covers infrastructure provisioning, policy management, observability, and cost management.
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Google Delivers Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Reliability Guide
Google recently delivered a cloud infrastructure reliability guide combining best practices and expertise from its engineers for its customers.
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Log Analytics Feature in Cloud Logging Now Generally Available
Google recently made its Cloud Logging Log Analytics feature generally available (GA), allowing users to search, aggregate, and transform all log data types, including application, network, and audit logs.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform, Liberica JDK Updates, JobRunr 6.0 Milestones
This week's Java roundup for January 16th, 2023, features news from JDK 20, JDK 21, Spring Cloud Gateway 4.0, Spring Boot 3.0.2 and 2.7.8, Spring Modulith 0.3, Liberica JDK versions 19.0.2, 17.0.6, 11.0.18 and 8u362, Payara Platform, Micronaut 3.8.2, WildFly 26.1.3, TomEE 8.0.14, first three milestone releases of Job Runr 6.0 and Gradle 8.0-RC2.
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Kubernetes Report Finds Increase in Poorly Configured Workloads
Fairwinds, a provider of Kubernetes software, has released their Kubernetes Benchmark Report 2023. The report shows an overall trend of worsening configuration issues across the surveyed organizations. This includes increases in organizations running workloads allowing root access, workloads without memory limits set, and workloads impacted by image vulnerabilities.
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State of DevOps Report Finds Platform Teams Lacking Product Management Support
Puppet released the 2023 State of DevOps Report with a focus on Platform Engineering. The report found that organizations with platform engineering teams report increased developer velocity, improvements in system reliability, greater productivity, and better workflow standards. Organizations still need to work on adopting a product mindset with the platform teams.
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Git 2.39.1 Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities affecting Git's commit log formatting and .gitattributes parsing in Git versions up to and including Git 2.39 have been recently patched. Both may lead to remote code execution, so users are required to upgrade immediately to Git 2.39.1.