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Amazon CloudFront Supports Configurable CORS and Custom HTTP Response Headers
Amazon CloudFront recently added support for response headers policies, removing the need of custom Lambda@Edge and CloudFront functions to insert response headers. The new feature allows developers to add cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), security, and custom headers to HTTP responses.
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PlanetScale Introduces Managed Cloud to Scale MySQL Databases
The company behind the open-source Vitess database clustering system recently announced PlanetScale Managed Cloud, an option to run PlanetScale’s databases and management functionalities from existing public cloud accounts.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Chaos Studio in Public Preview
At the recent Ignite, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Chaos Studio, a fully-managed experimentation service to help customers track, measure, and mitigate faults with controlled chaos engineering to improve the resilience of their cloud applications.
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Apache Spark Brings Pandas API with Version 3.2
The Apache Spark team has integrated the Pandas API in the product's latest 3.2 release. With this change, dataframe processing can be scaled to multiple clusters or multiple processors in a single machine using the PySpark execution engine.
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AWS Announces the Public Preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
Recently AWS announced the public preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift. This new feature enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange to query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse.
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How Pinterest Scaled up Its Ad-Serving Architecture
On the Pinterest Engineering Blog, Nishant Roy wrote about their strategy to overcome a scaling problem with their ad corpus. Their existing solution had hit its scaling limit, but further growth was necessary. Its redesign offloaded the ad index to a key-value store and optimised garbage collection in their Go applications to increase their ad corpus size by a factor of 60.
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Google Announces Distributed Cloud
At the recent Next ’21 conference, Google announced Google Distributed Cloud, a set of hardware and software solutions to extend Google infrastructure to the edge and into customer data centers.
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Cloudflare Challenges AWS with R2 Storage and No Egress Fees
Cloudflare has recently announced R2 storage, a S3-compatible service to store large amounts of data with no egress bandwidth fees associated. An automatic migration of objects from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 will be offered to facilitate the transition or integration for existing AWS deployments.
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AWS Introduces Static IP Addresses for Application Load Balancer
Amazon recently announced that the Application Load Balancer supports AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with the Network Load Balancer.
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AWS Announces the General Availability and Open Sourcing of the Amazon Genomics CLI
Amazon Genomics CLI is a tool that makes it easier to process genomics data at a petabyte-scale on AWS. Earlier this year, the public cloud vendor shared a preview of the tool, and it is now open source and generally available.
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Facebook Mariana Trench Helps Developers to Find Vulnerabilities in Android and Java Apps
Recently open-sourced by Facebook, Mariana Trench (MT) aims to help developers identify and prevent security and privacy bugs in Android and Java applications.
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The Future of Agile in Africa: Challenges and Progress
The African continent is trailing behind in the adoption of agile compared to other continents as it faces wicked challenges and setbacks. However, the next two decades seem to be promising to the young continent, as tech startups, SMEs and large corporations are recognizing that a collaborative approach to product development leads to more productive and value-driven results.
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Data Collection, Standardization and Usage at Scale in the Uber Rider App
Uber Engineering recently published how it collects, standardises and uses data from the Uber Rider app. Rider data comprises all the rider's interactions with the Uber app. This data accounts for billions of events from Uber's online systems every day. Uber uses this data to deal with top problem areas such as increasing funnel conversion, user engagement, etc.
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Karmada 0.7: Next-Gen Multi-Cloud and Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
Karmada (Kubernetes Armada) 0.7, featuring a promising Kubernetes management system in the hybrid cloud era, became available on July 12, 2021. It brought multi-cluster service discovery, precise cluster status management, replica scheduling based on cluster resources, and more convenient APIs to divide replicas by weight list.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database. The new database service is intended for applications that require microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write performance with data durability and high availability.
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