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Faster Standard Retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Batch Operations
Recently AWS announced the general availability of faster standard retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. According to the company, the retrieval can be up to 85% faster and applies to the Standard retrieval tier when using S3 Batch Operations.
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New Google Cloud H3 Virtual Machine Series for High-Performance Computing Workloads in Preview
Recently Google launched a new H3 Virtual Machine (VM) Series designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. The series of VMs are available in public preview for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) users and offers 88 cores (Simultaneous multi-threading disabled) and 352 GB of memory.
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AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Boost to Improve Remote Storage Throughput and IOPS Performance
During the recent Inspire 2023 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Boost to improve remote storage throughput and IOPS performance. Separating the hypervisor and host OS functions from the host infrastructure, the new option allows up to 10 Gbps throughput and 400K IOPS.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Route 53 Resolver on AWS Outposts Rack
AWS recently announced that Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now available on AWS Outposts rack providing on-premises services and applications with local Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution directly from Outposts. In addition, local Route 53 Resolver endpoints also enable DNS resolution between Outposts and on-premises DNS servers.
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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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Distributed PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Azure Cosmos DB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB
Microsoft recently discussed the results of distributed PostgreSQL benchmarks, comparing transaction processing and price performance for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and Yugabyte. With different implementation trade-offs, the results show a higher throughput for Azure Cosmos DB but highlight the challenges of benchmarking distributed databases.
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Cloudflare Introduces Smart Hints to Automate Web Performance Optimisation
Cloudflare has introduced Smart Hints to eliminate the need for manual configuration of Early Hints and Fetch Priorities, By leveraging Cloudflare's network, Smart Hints streamline the optimization process and aim to provide performance improvements without requiring manual configuration.
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New Azure Cosmos DB Features to Boost Performance and Optimize Cost
Microsoft has recently unveiled several new features for Azure Cosmos DB to enhance cost efficiency, boost performance, and increase elasticity. These features are burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, serverless container storage of 1 TB, and priority-based execution.
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Discord Migrates Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB
Discord has migrated trillions of message records from Apache Cassandra to ScyllaDB, reducing the size of the largest cluster from 177 Cassandra nodes to 72 ScyllaDB nodes and reducing tail latencies for reads and writes. The move has unlocked new product use cases because of the improved database stability and performance.
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Airbnb Improves Web Performance with HTTP Streaming
Airbnb introduced HTTP streaming to improve the page-loading performance of their website. They reduced the First Contentful Paint (FCP) metric by around 100 milliseconds on every page tested, including the homepage. They also minimized the impact of slow backend queries on the loading times.
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Vercel Announces New Storage and Security Offerings for the Edge
Vercel recently announced a suite of serverless storage offerings for their cloud platform with Vercel KV, Postgres, and Blob, powered by the company’s infrastructure partners, Neon and Upstash. In addition, the company also launched Vercel Secure Compute, Visual Editing, and Spaces.
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From Extinct Computers to Statistical Nightmares: Adventures in Performance
Thomas Dullien, distinguished software engineer at Elastic, shared at QCon London some lessons learned from analyzing the performance of large-scale compute systems.
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Boosting Quarkus Native Performance: Should You Stick with Space/Time or Switch to Adaptive GC?
Quarkus, the Kubernetes Native Java Framework, has switched its default garbage collection policy from space/time to adaptive GC for native runtime in version 2.13.6.Final. Adaptive GC is designed to trigger GCs aggressively in order to keep memory consumption low. This makes it effective in situations where a low memory footprint is essential, and it appears to perform better under heavy stress.
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Microsoft Offers More App Service Plans Choices
Microsoft recently announced two new offerings in the Premium v3 (Pv3) service tier and expansion in the Isolated v2 tier of Azure App Service.