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Hubber Codespace Improves Inner-Loop Testing at GitHub
GitHub's Developer Experience (DX) team has recently unveiled a new tool aimed at streamlining the inner-loop development process within its distributed service ecosystem. Named "Hubber Codespace" (HCS), the solution addresses some challenges posed by integration testing in a modular team structure where different services are developed and operated independently.
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AWS Makes CloudFormation Stack Creation up to 40% Faster
AWS optimized the stack creation process to make it faster and achieved significant improvements. The company split the resource creation process into two phases (creation and stabilization), which allows for creating other resources in the stack earlier. The change is available in all regions and doesn’t require any user action.
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Microsoft Introduces Static Web Apps' New Feature: Distributed Functions for Enhanced Performance
Microsoft has announced a new Azure Static Web Apps feature called distributed functions. It automatically distributes managed functions to high-demand regions of Static Web Apps.
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AWS Waives Egress Fees for Customers Exiting the Cloud
AWS has recently announced free egress traffic for customers leaving the cloud and withdrawing their data from the AWS infrastructure. This initiative follows the guidelines of the European Data Act and is designed to help customers switch to alternative cloud providers or on-premises data centers.
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Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis
Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.
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Azure OpenAI's “Use Your Data” Feature Now Generally Available
Microsoft has officially made On Your Data generally available in Azure OpenAI Service. This feature enables users to harness the full power of OpenAI models, including GPT-4, and seamlessly integrate the advanced features of the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) model with their data. According to the company, all this is backed by enterprise-grade security on Azure.
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CloudFormation IaC Generator Scans and Imports Existing AWS Resources
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new tools to simplify infrastructure management for its customers, announcing the "IaC Generator" and "CDK Migrate" tools. "CDK Migrate" has been recently covered at InfoQ, whilst the IaC Generator allows enineers to create CloudFormation templates based on pre-existing resources and their relationships.
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Finch 1.1.1: AWS Enhances Windows Compatibility for Open Source Container Development Tool
AWS recently announced the general availability of Windows support for Finch, an open-source CLI tool. Finch enables developers to create, execute, and distribute Linux containers on both Windows and macOS. It streamlines container development by combining a minimalistic native client with select open-source components.
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Falco, Cloud-Native Security Tool for Kubernetes, Graduates from CNCF
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
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Enhanced Protection for Large Language Models (LLMs) against Cyber Threats with Cloudflare for AI
Cloudflare recently announced a new capability called Firewall for AI in its Web Application Firewall (WAF) offering. The capability adds a new layer of protection that will identify abuse and attacks before they reach and tamper with Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 Models, Highlighting Opus and Its Near-Human Capabilities
Anthropic has introduced the Claude 3 family models, surpassing other industry models such as GPT-4. The Claude 3 family consists of three distinct models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, arranged in ascending order of capability, each designed to cater to diverse user needs in terms of intelligence, speed, and cost.
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Glasskube an Emerging Kubernetes Package Management System
The cloud-native landscape is thriving, but a crucial aspect remains missing: a robust package management system. Glasskube, an open-source emerging project in this domain, with its first release (v0.0.1) wants to close this gap.
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Slack Conquers Deployment Fears with Z-score Monitoring
An engineer at team communication platform Slack has written about confronting their fear of deployments and successfully implementing a bot to monitor them instead. Describing a seemingly scary delegation of responsibility, Sean McIlroy explains the reasoning and logic behind giving a pivotal role to their ReleaseBot in a detailed blog post.
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Amazon Announces One Billion Parameter Speech Model BASE TTS
Amazon Science recently published their work on Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities (BASE TTS). BASE TTS supports voice-cloning and outperforms baseline TTS models when evaluated by human judges. Further, Amazon's experiments show that scaling model and data size improves the subjective quality of the model's output.
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Mistral AI Models Are Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI has made its Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models available on Amazon Bedrock. These models, now accessible via Amazon Bedrock's single API, aim to offer users a broader selection of high-performing models for building generative AI applications.