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KubeCon EU: Mercedes-Benz’s Migration from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies
During KubeCon EU the Mercedes Benz team presented their migration journey from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies to secure their 1000+ Kubernetes clusters. The solution was chosen in favour of Kyverno due to its improved performance.
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Shadow API Detection for Google Cloud Environments in Preview
During Google Cloud Next, Google announced the preview release of shadow API detection in Advanced API Security, part of the Apigee API Management solution. This managed API Broker service in the Google Cloud allows users to design, secure, deploy, monitor, and analyze APIs.
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters
Earlier this year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CloudEvents had graduated. CloudEvents is a specification designed to expose event metadata in a standardized manner, which helps to ensure interoperability across platforms, services, and systems.
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QCon London: Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform
At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.
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Optimizing Adidas' Container Platform Using GitOps
Adidas recently discussed how they evolved their platform configuration towards a GitOps-based setup. In a series of blog posts, Adidas elaborated on the utilization of GitOps in their container platform and how they plan to introduce improvements in the management of their platform.
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AWS Batch Introduces Multi-Container Jobs for Large-Scale Simulations
Recently, AWS announced the support of multi-container jobs in AWS Batch through the management console. This new feature simplifies the process of running simulations, particularly for testing complex systems such as those used in autonomous vehicles and robotics.
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Borderless Cloud at QCon London: Q&A with Adora Nwodo
At QCon London, Adora Nkowno, senior software engineer at NexaScale, discussed the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into application architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines. Her session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference, and InfoQ did an interview.
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Azure API Management Basic V2 and Standard V2 GA: Enhancing Scalability, Security, and Networking
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of new pricing tiers for Azure API Management, Basic v2, and Standard v2. It offers scalability and flexibility to support various development projects, from small to enterprise-level applications.
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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break
As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.
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QCon London: Efficient Serverless Development
At QCon London, Yan Cui, a serverless advocate at Lumigo, shared patterns for effective local development with AWS serverless technologies. The focus areas were testing approaches, deployment practices, and application environments.
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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.
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Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI: Q&A with Michael Friedrich
At QCon London, Michael Friedrich, senior developer advocate at GitLab, discussed how AI can help in DevSecOps workflows. His session was part of the Cloud-Native Engineering track on the first day of the conference. InfoQ interviewed Friedrich after the session.
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Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks and Techniques by Meryem Arik at QCon London
At QCon London, Meryem Arik discussed deploying Large Language Models (LLMs). While initial proofs of concept benefit from hosted solutions, scaling demands self-hosting to cut costs, enhance performance with tailored models, and meet privacy and security requirements. She emphasized understanding deployment limits, quantization for efficiency, and optimizing inference to fully use GPU resources.
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AWS Deadline Cloud: Q&A on the Cloud-Based Render Farm with Antony Passemard
AWS has recently introduced Deadline Cloud, a new service designed to help creative teams manage rendering tasks more efficiently. The service is particularly useful for customers in the media & entertainment (M&E) and architecture, engineering, & construction (AEC) industries who need to generate final frames for film, TV, games, industrial design visualizations, and other digital media.
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Cloudflare D1, Workers Analytics Engine and Hyperdrive: Q&A with Rita Kozlov and Matt Silverlock
Cloudflare recently announced the “production ready” switch on three products: their serverless SQL database D1, time series Workers Analytics Engine, and Hyperdrive.