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Confluent Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft
Confluent, the company of the founders of Apache Kafka, recently announced a new strategic alliance between them and Microsoft to enable a more integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform.
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BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast
In a series of blog posts published recently, BBC Online's lead technical architect explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast. When a breaking news story erupts, traffic can increase 3x in a single minute and then keep rising after that.
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Google Updates Its Cloud Run Service Support for WebSockets, HTTP/2, and gRPC Bidirectional Streams
Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables developers to run stateless containers invocable via web requests or Pub/Sub events. It is serverless, meaning all infrastructure management is abstract away, and developers can focus more on building applications.
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driftctl : a Tool to Detect Infrastructure Drifts
The CloudSkiff team released an open source tool called driftctl which can detect drift in Terraform managed infrastructure.
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Grails Foundation Established to Advance Adoption of Grails Framework
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) has announced the creation of the Grails Foundation, a not-for-profit company established to advance innovation and adoption of the Grails framework. The foundation will receive initial funding of $200,000 from OCI for development and evangelism. Jeff Scott Brown and Puneet Behl spoke to InfoQ about the formation of the foundation.
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Microsoft Research Develops a New Vision-Language System: VinVL
Microsoft Research recently developed a new object-attribute detection model for image encoding, which they named VinVL - Visual features in Vision-Language.
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Elastic Changes Licences for Elasticsearch and Kibana: AWS Forks Both
Elastic recently announced licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana, with the company moving away from Apache 2.0 and adopting the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. Amazon reacted with a plan to maintain a fork of both Elasticsearch and Kibana under the previous license.
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Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: GCP Outpaces Azure and AWS
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report identifying Google Cloud Platform as the best overall provider. The 2021 Cloud Report compares AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
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The "Wasmer" WebAssembly Runtime is Generally Available
Wasmer recently released version 1.0 of its server-side WebAssembly runtime, and it is now generally available. Wasmer enables super lightweight containers based on WebAssembly. Version 1.0 marks a significant milestone on a journey, which started more than two years ago with version 0.1.0. It is an indicator of the growing interest in WebAssembly on the server-side.
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HashiCorp Announces Public Beta of HCP Vault
In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the public beta of HashiCorp Vault on its Cloud Platform (HCP). With Vault, customers can leverage a managed cloud service to provide them with secret management and encryption capabilities.
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Cloudflare’s Origin CA Issuer: an Extension to the K8s cert-manager
Cloudflare has released Origin CA Issuer, an extension to cert-manager, a native Kubernetes certificate management controller. Integrating with Cloudflare Origin CA, the extension makes it easier to create and renew Cloudflare Origin Certificates.
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Grafana Labs Announces Updates to Its Grafana Cloud with a Free Tier, New Pricing and Features
Grafana Cloud is a fully-managed observability platform from Grafana Labs for applications and infrastructure. The company recently announced a new version for Grafana Cloud, including a free tier version, a different pricing structure, and several significant new features such as enhanced alerting and synthetic monitoring.
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AWS Launches Amazon DevOps Guru
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced Amazon DevOps Guru, one of several new machine learning-driven services. DevOps Guru detects operational issues, generates reports and notifications, and offers insights and recommendations on how to take action.
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AWS Transfer Family Introduces Support for EFS
AWS has recently introduced support for Amazon EFS as a data store in the AWS Transfer Family, the managed service that handles SFTP, FTP and FTPS requests. The new option is intended to simplify the migration to the cloud of file transfer workloads.
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Sysdig: Container Security Shifting Left, Docker Usage Shrinking
Sysdig 2021 container security and usage report highlights a trend for container security to shift left. Yet, many of the analyzed images are still lacking in basic security provisions.