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Microsoft Announces General Availability for Its Telco Offering Azure Operator Nexus
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Operator Nexus, a carrier-grade and hybrid platform built to allow telecom operators to modernize and transform their networks. It is designed to bring the performance and resiliency of carrier-grade network functions to traditional cloud infrastructures.
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Cadence 1.0: Uber Releases Its Scalable Workflow Orchestration Platform
Uber released a major version of its workflow orchestration platform named Cadence after six years in development. Uber and other companies use Cadence to build stateful services at scale using native programming languages.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Deployment Stacks in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of deployment stacks in Azure, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit for faster update and delete (cleanup). In addition, it brings more granular capabilities for preventing unwanted changes to resources.
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Building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile: Learnings from QCon New York
In her QCon New York 2023 talk Success Patterns for building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile, Robin Yeman explored how we can use agile practices at scale for large initiatives with multiple teams, building cyber-physical safety-critical systems with a scope that includes software, firmware, and hardware development.
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Google Introduces a Standalone Integration Platform as a Service on Their Cloud Platform
Google recently announced the general availability of Google Cloud’s Application Integration – a standalone Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) designed to help customers connect their applications visually, without code.
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LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers for Microservices Integration and Reduces Latency by up to 60%
LinkedIn adopted Protocol Buffers for exchanging data between microservices more efficiently across its platform and integrated it with Rest.li, their open-source REST framework. After the company-wide rollout, they reduced the latency by up to 60% and improved resource utilization at the same time.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Recently, AWS announced the availability of versions and aliases in Step Functions to improve resiliency for deployments of serverless workflows.
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Microsoft Previews .NET Framework Custom Code for Azure Logic Apps Standard
Microsoft recently introduced .NET Framework Custom Code for Logic Apps Standard in public preview, allowing developers to call compiled .NET Framework code from a built-in action in their workflow.
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Azure API Center for Centralized API Discovery and Governance in Preview
At the recent annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced the preview of Microsoft Azure API Center – a new Azure service and a part of the Azure API Management platform that enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance.
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What Carbon Neutral Really Means and How Net-Zero Is Different
Carbon neutrality means that the total amount of emissions is either eliminated, neutralized, or compensated. Net-zero is a target that doesn’t include compensation and puts more emphasis on avoiding carbon emissions. Many products, data centers, or companies are already carbon neutral, but few have reached net-zero. The problem with offsetting approaches is that you continue to emit carbon.
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Apache Pulsar 3.0 Delivers a New LTS Version and Efficiency Improvements
The Apache Software Foundation has released version 3.0 of Apache Pulsar, the distributed messaging and streaming platform. Pulsar 3.0 introduces the Long-Term Support release and many performance and scalability improvements.
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GCC 13 Supports New C2x Features, Including nullptr, Enhanced Enumerations, and More
At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.
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Momento Topics: A Serverless Event Messaging System for Pub-Sub
Momento now offers Momento Topics, a serverless event messaging system that supports publish-subscribe communication patterns. This service is designed to provide a messaging pipeline for event architectures, and subsequent feature releases will allow direct AWS Lambda invocations and change data capture events triggered from Momento Cache.
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New Visual Studio Code Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new data mapper for Azure Logic Apps available as a Visual Studio Code extension. The mapper capability is currently in public preview.