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Pulumi Adds Native Support for Terraform and HCL
Pulumi now natively supports Terraform and HCL, enabling direct HCL execution and state management within Pulumi Cloud. Currently in private beta with a Q1 2026 release, the update aids migration from legacy tools. A new financial "escape hatch" offers credits for existing HashiCorp contracts, targeting teams affected by recent licensing shifts.
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350PB, Millions of Events, One System: Inside Uber’s Cross-Region Data Lake and Disaster Recovery
Uber’s HiveSync is a sharded, cross-region batch replication system keeping Hive/HDFS data consistent across multiple regions. Handling 5M daily Hive events and 8PB of data replication, it uses event-driven jobs, hybrid RPC and DistCp strategies, DAG-based orchestration, and dynamic sharding, enabling disaster recovery, horizontal scaling, and 99.99% cross-region data accuracy.
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AWS Hikes EC2 Capacity Block Rates by 15% in Uniform ML Pricing Adjustment
AWS has raised EC2 Capacity Block prices for ML by 15% across all regions, impacting GPU-based workloads. The uniform price hikes affect top-tier instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs, underscoring supply chain pressures and inflation. With limited alternatives, organizations face higher costs, emphasizing the need for effective workload optimization and cost management strategies.
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How Agoda Unified Multiple Data Pipelines into a Single Source of Truth
Agoda recently described how it consolidated multiple independent data pipelines into a centralized Apache Spark-based platform to eliminate inconsistencies in financial data. The company implemented a multi-layered quality framework that combines automated validations, machine-learning-based anomaly detection, and data contracts, while processing millions of daily booking transactions.
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Solving Fragmented Mobile Analytics: Uber’s Platform-Led Approach
Uber Engineering outlines its platform-led mobile analytics redesign, standardizing event instrumentation across iOS and Android to improve cross-platform consistency, reduce engineering effort, and provide reliable insights for product and data teams.
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AWS CloudWatch Evolves into Unified Observability Platform with Apache Iceberg Support
AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache Iceberg-compatible storage via S3 Tables, the update aims to eliminate data silos and enable Zero-ETL analytics across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
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Java News Roundup: Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Gatherers4j, Keycloak, Grails, Java Operator SDK
This week's Java roundup for January 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: point releases of Gatherers4j and Keycloak; and maintenance releases of Spring gRPC, Quarkus, Grails and Java Operator SDK.
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AWS Introduces VPC Encryption Controls to Enforce Encryption in Transit
AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. The feature provides visibility into unencrypted traffic, supports enforcement using compatible Nitro-based infrastructure, and allows exclusions for resources that cannot encrypt traffic.
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AWS Previews Route 53 Global Resolver to Decouple DNS from Regional Failures
AWS previews Route 53 Global Resolver, using Anycast to decouple DNS from regional failures. It simplifies hybrid setups with unified public/private resolution, DoH/DoT, and Zero-Trust security.
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Meta Applies Mutation Testing with LLM to Improve Compliance Coverage
Meta applies large language models to mutation testing through its Automated Compliance Hardening system, generating targeted mutants and tests to improve compliance coverage, reduce overhead, and detect privacy and safety risks. The approach supports scalable, LLM-driven test generation and continuous compliance across Meta’s platforms.
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Docker Kanvas Challenges Helm and Kustomize for Kubernetes Dominance
Docker has launched Kanvas, a new platform designed to bridge the gap between local development and cloud production. By automating the conversion of Docker Compose files into Kubernetes artefacts, the tool challenges established solutions like Helm and Kustomize. Developed with Layer5, it marks a shift toward Infrastructure as Code, offering visualisations to simplify cloud-native deployments.
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AWS Adds Intelligent-Tiering and Replication for S3 Tables
AWS has introduced Intelligent-Tiering and cross-region replication for S3 Tables to automate cost optimization and data availability for Apache Iceberg workloads. These features allow data to transition to lower-cost storage tiers based on access patterns while maintaining consistent, read-only table replicas across regions and accounts without manual synchronization.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Shell, JReleaser, TornadoInsight, Apache Camel
This week's relatively quiet Java roundup for December 29th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Spring Shell 4.0; point releases of JReleaser 1.22.0 and Apache Camel 4.14.3; and TornadoInsight now compatible with the recent release of TornadoVM 2.0.
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Swiggy Rolls out Hermes V3: from Text-to-SQL to Conversational AI
Swiggy has released Hermes V3, a GenAI-powered text-to-SQL assistant that enables employees to query data in plain English. The Slack-native system combines vector retrieval, conversational memory, agentic orchestration, and explainability to improve SQL accuracy and support multi-turn analytical queries.
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Amazon S3 Vectors Reaches GA, Introducing "Storage-First" Architecture for RAG
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, increasing per-index capacity forty-fold to 2 billion vectors. By natively integrating vector search into the S3 storage engine, the service introduces a "Storage-First" architecture that decouples compute from storage, reducing total cost of ownership by up to 90% for large-scale RAG workloads.