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Networking Cost Estimations and Analysis with Open-Source AWS Networking Cost Calculator
AWS has launched the Networking Costs Calculator, an open-source tool enabling users to estimate and visualize AWS networking charges effortlessly. With a serverless backend and a user-friendly ReactJS interface, it simplifies complex cost assessments. Ideal for optimizing networking budgets, this innovative calculator enhances cost transparency in cloud services.
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Grafana K6 Releases: Enhancements in TypeScript, ECMAScript, Browser Testing, and More
The Grafana k6 team releases a new version of its open-source load testing tool approximately every two months, bringing new features and improving user experience. Several recent updates have introduced key improvements, notably related to TypeScript support, ECMAScript compatibility, and enhancements to browser testing, gRPC, memory management, cryptography, and test result storage.
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Spotify's Dashboard Portal: Empowering Data-Driven Decision-Making through Quality and Accessibility
Spotify recently explained their Dashboard Quality Framework, a standardized practice to ensure the accuracy and consistency of dashboards across the organization. The internal Dashboard Portal powered by the Dashboard Quality Framework enables the users to easily search for existing dashboards across the organization.
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Microsoft's Customer Managed Planned Failover Type for Azure Storage Available in Public Preview
Microsoft’s new customer-managed planned failover for Azure Storage enhances disaster recovery by enabling geo-redundancy without data loss or reconfiguration. This proactive solution supports business continuity during outages and large-scale disasters, aligning with competitive offerings from AWS and Google Cloud.
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New Platform sbomify Streamlines Making Software Inventories for SBOMs
A new platform named sbomify has been announced to address the growing challenges businesses face in managing and sharing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). The platform aims to automate and simplify SBOM processes as regulatory requirements increase across industries.
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Kubernetes v1.31 Released: Enhanced Security, Stability, and AI/ML Support
The Kubernetes project has recently announced the release of version 1.31, codenamed "Elli". This version incorporates 45 enhancements, with 11 features reaching Stable status, 22 moving to Beta, and 12 new Alpha features introduced.
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Leveraging eBPF for Improved Infrastructure Observability
To efficiently and effectively investigate multi-tenant system performance, Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect "noisy neighbors".
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AWS Unveils Parallel Computing Service to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
AWS has unveiled its Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a fully-managed solution designed to streamline high-performance computing (HPC) for scientists and engineers. With capabilities like easy cluster setup via EC2 and support for Slurm, PCS accelerates complex simulations, empowering users to tackle challenging workloads effortlessly across multiple global regions.
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Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool. This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features. Karpenter, initially launched in November 2021, has evolved into a comprehensive Kubernetes-native node lifecycle manager.
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AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Mac Builds
Amazon has recently announced that AWS CodeBuild, its managed build service, now supports building applications on macOS. However, due to Apple's licensing requirements, developers must still reserve a dedicated macOS fleet to utilize this new option.
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Optimizing Continuous Deployment at Uber: Automating Microservices in Large Monorepos
Uber's microservices architecture, consisting of thousands of services, requires a reliable and efficient system for deploying updates, security patches, and new features. To ensure this process is safe and timely, Uber embraced continuous deployment (CD), automating deployments to production. This has been essential for maintaining code quality and minimizing delays in delivering changes.
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TikTok Releases Tool to Improve Monorepo Performance
Engineers from TikTok have announced a new tool - Sparo - to help deal with the problems associated with using monorepos, solving many of the performance issues that come with larger repos.
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Workspaces in Azure API Management GA: Runtime Isolation and Federated Model of Managing APIs
Microsoft has launched Workspaces in Azure API Management, enabling developers to manage multiple API services from a single platform. This feature enhances API oversight, supports centralized and federated management models, and ensures runtime isolation. Ideal for enhanced organization, this premium-tier tool simplifies API development while maintaining robust security and control.
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Figma Moves from ECS to Kubernetes to Benefit from the CNCF Ecosystem and Reduce Costs
Figma migrated its compute platform from AWS ECS to Kubernetes (EKS) in less than 12 months with minimal customer impact. The company decided to adopt Kubernetes to run its containerized workloads primarily to take advantage of the large ecosystem supported by the CNCF. Additionally, the move was dictated by pursuing cost savings, improved developer experience, and increased resiliency.
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Java News Roundup: Class-File API, GlassFish, JHipster, JReleaser, Hibernate Search, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for August 26th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 484, Class-File API, promoted to Candidate status, GlassFish 7.0.17, JHipster 8.7.0, JReleaser 1.14.0, Hibernate Search 7.1.2 and 7.2.1, and Micronaut Framework 4.6.0.