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AWS Introduces Amazon Linux 2023 Runtime for Lambda
AWS recently introduced Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) as a managed runtime and container base image for its Lambda service. The runtime provides an OS-only environment for developers to run Lambda functions.
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KubeCon NA 2023: Kubernetes Storage Platform to Run Real-Time Analytic Databases
Kubernetes storage platform provides a portable and flexible foundation for data management to help developers build their own data solutions. Robert Hodges spoke last week at KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2023 Conference on different techniques his teams developed to build their own data platform.
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Microsoft Refreshes its Well-Architected Framework
Microsoft recently announced a comprehensive refresh of the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) for designing and running optimized workloads on Azure.
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New Amazon SQS Bindings Added to CoreWCF
Amazon delivered a new binding for CoreWCF, the open-source replacement for Windows Communication Foundation. The new binding supports the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in both server and client code. The new binding allows simple migration of legacy Microsoft MSMQ binding to an AWS cloud-based implementation.
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xAI Introduces Large Language Model Grok
xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk, recently announced Grok, a large language model. Grok can access current knowledge of the world via the X platform and outperforms other LLMs of comparable size, including GPT-3.5, on several benchmarks.
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Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL: Microsoft Entra ID, Secure Connectivity and Scalability Updates
Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview faces a refresh, introducing customer-requested features and additions including Microsoft Entra ID support, Service-managed Private Link for secure connections, Azure Alerts integration for job status monitoring, and enhanced scalability of Job Agent's tier.
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AppDeveloperCon Offers Deep Dives into Developer-Focused CNCF Projects
Monday the 6th of November in Chicago Illinois, Application Developer Con was held during the co-located events at KubeCon North America 2023. The full day event focused on cloud native developers and featured talks on CNCF projects (such as OpenFGA, Dapr, TestContainers, and OpenFeature), eventing, patterns like choreography/orchestration, and ways of working in today’s cloud native environments.
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Android Telecom Library Aims to Simplify the Creation of Voice and Video Apps
Available in Alpha, the new Telecom jetpack library simplifies the process of creating voice and/or video calling applications for Android developers by providing several APIs to support common functionality like answering/declining, audio routing, and so on.
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Grafana Cloud Kubernetes Monitoring with Machine Learning Predictions
Managing cloud costs can be challenging as Kubernetes fleets scale. To address this issue, Grafana Cloud has introduced a cost-monitoring feature within Kubernetes Monitoring. In particular, Grafana Cloud’s Kubernetes Monitoring now offers ML predictions for CPU and memory usage.
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Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 22, Spring Shell, Quarkus, Apache Camel, JDKMon, J-Fall 2023
This week's Java roundup for November 6th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Spring Shell 3.2.0-M3, 3.1.5, 3.0.9 and 2.1.14, Quarkus 3.5.1 and 3.2.8, Apache Camel 3.14.10, Apache Camel Quarkus 3.2.2, JDKMon 17.0.81, Arquillian 1.7.2.Final, Gradle 8.5.0-RC1 and J-Fall 2023.
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AWS Announces European Sovereign Cloud for Government Agencies and Regulated Industries
AWS has recently announced that it is working on a European Sovereign Cloud, a new European region that will be operationally independent of all existing AWS regions. No availability date has been provided for the new option that targets government agencies and regulated industries that store sensitive data and run critical workloads in the European Union (EU).
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MySQL 8.2 Introduces Transparent Read/Write Splitting
Oracle has recently announced the general availability of MySQL 8.2, which includes support for Read/Write Splitting. This long-awaited feature has been introduced in the latest innovation release and helps optimize database performance and scalability.
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Fermyon Spin 2.0 Adds Support for WebAssembly Components and WASI Preview 2
Spin 2.0, an open-source tool to build and run serverless WebAssembly apps, gets support for WebAssembly components, improves performance and developer experience, and lays the foundation for Wasm portability across runtimes and implementations.
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AWS Unveils Gemini, a Distributed Training System for Swift Failure Recovery in Large Model Training
AWS and Rice University have introduced Gemini, a new distributed training system to redefine failure recovery in large-scale deep learning models. According to the research paper, Gemini adopts a daring strategy by utilizing CPU memory to ensure previously unheard-of speeds in failure recovery, overcoming obstacles related to high recovery costs and constrained checkpoint storage capacity.
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Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: New Analytics Capabilities
In recent news from the Azure team, Azure Synapse Link introduces a set of new capabilities, including its compatibility with existing MongoDB collections, integration with continuous backup, and custom partitioning, empowering users to leverage analytics workloads with ease and efficiency on top of Azure Cosmos DB data.