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Cloudflare Introduces Short-Lived SSH Access, Eliminating the Need for SSH Credentials
Cloudflare recently announced Access for Infrastructure SSH, a feature that replaces traditional SSH keys with short-lived certificates. The new option leverages BastionZero’s integration into Cloudflare One and reduces the complexity of managing SSH keys while enhancing security by substituting long-term SSH keys with temporary, ephemeral certificates.
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Software Architecture Tracks at QCon San Francisco 2024 – Navigating Current Challenges and Trends
At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons for architects seeking to tackle issues at a massive scale.
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Cloudflare Introduces Workflows for Building Scalable Resilient Multi-Step Applications
Cloudflare's "Workflows" is a revolutionary execution engine in open beta, enabling developers to build scalable, multi-step applications that autonomously manage errors and state across failures. With seamless retries and modular components, it streamlines development and enhances resource efficiency. Harness the power of Cloudflare's ecosystem for robust app performance.
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PostgreSQL 17 Released with Improved Vacuum Process and Performance Gains
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group recently announced the general availability of PostgreSQL 17, the latest version of the popular open-source database. This release focuses on performance improvements, including a new memory management implementation for vacuum, storage access optimizations, and enhancements for high-concurrency workloads.
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Staying Innovative on a Journey from Start-Up to Scale-Up
As ClearBank grew, it faced the challenge of maintaining its innovative culture while integrating more structured processes to manage its expanding operations and ensure regulatory compliance. Within boundaries of accountability and responsibility, teams were given space to evolve their own areas, innovate a little, experiment, and continuously improve, to remain innovative.
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Meta Spirit LM Integrates Speech and Text in New Multimodal GenAI Model
Presented in a recent paper, Spirit LM enables the creation of pipelines that mixes spoken and written text to integrate speech and text in the same multimodal model. According to Meta, their novel approach, based on interleaving text and speech tokens, makes it possible to circumvent the inherent limitations of prior solutions that use distinct pipelines for speech and text.
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Slack Evolves Chef Architecture for Safety and Stability
In a recent blog post, Slack Engineering has detailed significant improvements to its Chef infrastructure. This manages tens of thousands of EC2 instances running its services, databases, and applications, and it recently moved from a single Chef stack to a more resilient, sharded infrastructure.
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.NET Aspire 9.0 RC1: Simplified Setup, Azure Functions Support Added, and Other Improvements
.NET Aspire has released version 9.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), a major update to the platform. This version supports both .NET 8 Long Term Support (LTS) and .NET 9 Standard Term Support (STS), incorporating many features and fixes requested by developers across the different components.
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AWS Lambda Introduces a Visual Studio Code-Based Editor with Advanced Features and AI Integration
AWS Lambda's new console features a VS Code OSS-integrated editor, enhancing code editing with customizable settings and support for larger function packages. It includes a split-screen layout for simultaneous viewing of code and outputs, real-time log tracking, and AI-driven suggestions via Amazon Q Developer.
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Central Package Management Now Available in .NET Upgrade Assistant
The .NET Upgrade Assistant team has recently introduced a significant upgrade: the Central Package Management (CPM) feature. This new capability enables .NET developers to manage dependencies more effectively, streamlining the upgrade process and maintaining consistency across various projects within a solution.
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PyTorch 2.5 Release Includes Support for Intel GPUs
The PyTorch Foundation recently released PyTorch version 2.5, which contains support for Intel GPUs. The release also includes several performance enhancements, such as the FlexAttention API, TorchInductor CPU backend optimizations, and a regional compilation feature which reduces compilation time. Overall, the release contains 4095 commits since PyTorch 2.4.
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RAG-Powered Copilot Saves Uber 13,000 Engineering Hours
Uber recently detailed how it built Genie, an AI-powered on-call copilot designed to improve the efficiency of on-call support engineers. Genie leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to provide accurate real-time responses and significantly enhance the speed and effectiveness of incident response. Since its launch, Genie has answered over 70,000 questions, saving 13,000 engineering hours.
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Cloudflare Overhauls Logging Pipeline with OpenTelemetry
Internet infrastructure and security company Cloudflare has documented how it significantly upgraded its logging pipeline by moving from syslog-ng to OpenTelemetry Collector.
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Java News Roundup: Apache Pulsar 4.0, Jakarta EE 11, Open Liberty, Helidon, JHipster, Apache Camel
This week's Java roundup for October 21st, 2024 features news highlighting: the release of Apache Pulsar 4.0; Open Liberty 24.0.0.11-beta as the first compatible implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile; and point releases of Helidon 4.1.3, JHipster 1.21.0, and Apache Camel 4.8.1 and 4.4.4.
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Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution to Enhance Cloud Cost Visibility
Google Cloud's new Cost Attribution Solution revolutionizes cloud cost management with enhanced metadata and labeling tools. Tailored for both newcomers and veterans, it enables organizations to track expenses by team, project, and service, fostering informed financial decisions. With automated labeling and detailed reports, businesses can optimize resource allocation and cost visibility.