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Amazon Releases AWS Lake Formation to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lake Formation, a fully managed service that makes it much easier for customers to build, secure, and manage data lakes.
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Rook v1.0 Adds Support for Ceph Nautilus, EdgeFS, and NFS Operator
Rook, a storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, has released version 1.0 for production-ready workloads that use file, block, and object storage in containers. Highlights of Rook 1.0 include support for storage providers through operators like Ceph Nautilus, EdgeFS, and NFS. For instance, when a pod requests an NFS file system, Rook can provision it without any manual intervention.
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Data Engineering in Badoo: Handling 20 Billion Events Per Day
Badoo is a dating social network that currently handles billions of events per day, explains Vladimir Kazanov, data platform engineering lead. At Skills Matter, he talked through some of the challenges of operating at this scale, and what tooling Badoo uses in order to process and report on this data.
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Enabling Single Tenant Workloads in the Cloud, Microsoft Introduces Azure Dedicated Host
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Dedicated Hosts, a service that allows organizations to run Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers. This service was introduced to address customer compliance and regulatory requirements. Organizations can also take advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefits which allows them to leverage existing software investments.
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Cloudflare Releases Free Time Service That Supports NTP and NTS
Cloudflare released time.cloudflare.com, their free time service that supports both NTP (Network Time Protocol) and the emerging NTS (Network Time Security). NTP is an Internet protocol for synchronizing time between remote computer systems. Cloudflare’s new service provides NTP services over their anycast network of over 180 locations worldwide.
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The First AI to Beat Pros in 6-Player Poker, Developed by Facebook and Carnegie Mellon
Facebook AI Research’s Noam Brown and Carnegie Mellon’s professor Tuomas Sandholm recently announced Pluribus, the first Artificial Intelligence program able to beat humans in 6 player hold-em poker. In the past years, computers have progressively improved, beating humans in checkers, chess, Go, and the Jeopardy TV show. Poker poses more challenges around information asymmetry and bluffing.
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Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Data Share
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Data Share, which provides capabilities to share data with users in the own organization, as well as with other organizations. Essentially, Microsoft positions the recently announced service as a big data tool, though it’s also possible to share individual files.
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Benefits of Microsoft’s New Versions of Azure Application Gateway and the Web Application Firewall
In a recent blog post, Microsoft discusses the benefits of the generally available releases of Azure Application Gateway V2 Standard SKU and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2 SKU's. Microsoft fully supports them with a 99.95% SLA, significant improvements and capabilities.
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Amazon Personalize Is Now Generally Available, Bringing ML to Customers
After the first announcement of Amazon Personalize during AWS re:Invent last November, the service is now generally available for all AWS customers. With this service, developers can add custom machine learning models to their application, including ones for personalized product recommendations, search results and direct marketing, even if they don’t have much machine learning experience.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Bastion, Eliminating the Jumpbox Virtual Machine
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview of a secure remote desktop solution, called Azure Bastion, which does not require organizations to expose virtual machines using public IP Addresses. The platform as a service (PaaS) extends virtual machine connectivity using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH) inside a modern web browser.
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Los Angeles CTO Roundtable about AI and Data
The recent "Leaders in Data CTO Roundtable" in Los Angeles included discussions about an artificial intelligence (AI) framework/platform for business, data in the next five years, data software stacks, and acquiring data talent.
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Sign In with Apple Touts Single Sign-On without Sharing Your Data
At the recent WWDC 2019, Apple announced its own Single Sign-On (SS) service, dubbed Sign in with Apple. Deemed "Apple's most significant new innovation" by Time, Sign in with Apple promises not to share any personal user data, including email addresses.
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Cloudflare Adopts Official CLI, Announces 3rd-Level Custom Domain Names, and Introduces a Free Tier
Cloudflare announces Wrangler as the official CLI for Cloudflare Workers, the ability to deploy without bringing your own domain, and a free tier that allows anyone to deploy globally on Cloudflare’s infrastructure.
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Bringing VMware Environments to Azure, Microsoft and VMWare Establish Partnership
At the recent Dell Technologies World conference, Microsoft and VMware announced an expanded partnership that enables certified VMware cloud infrastructure to run in Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft first party capability is made possible through a solution provided by CloudSimple, a VMware certified partner, and officially is called Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple.
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Cloudflare Releases Workers KV, a Serverless Key-Value Store at the Edge
What sits between your application and the client's browser? When the answer is "the internet", Cloudflare wants their Workers platform to play a part. They recently expanded that platform with Workers KV, a distributed, eventually-consistent key-value store available in 180+ edge locations.
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