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AWS Releases New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) EC2 Instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the release of new Graviton3-based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 instances, providing customers with enhanced performance and cost savings.
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Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Load Testing, a fully-managed load-testing service allowing customers to test the resiliency of their applications regardless of where they are hosted.
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Google Boosts Sandboxed Container File System Performance by Improving gVisor
Google improved the file system implementation in gVisor, the open source isolation layer used in its commercial container-oriented offerings, such as App Engine, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions. According to Google engineers Ayush Ranjan and Fabricio Voznika, the new gVisor file system, dubbed VFS2, may improve performance of file-intensive workloads by 50%-75% approximately.
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Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes Improve Amazon RDS Performances for MySQL Compatible Engines
AWS recently introduced RDS Optimized Reads and RDS Optimized Writes, which are designed to enhance the performance of MySQL and MariaDB workloads running on RDS. These new functionalities can improve query performances and provide higher write throughput but are available on a limited subset of instances and have multiple prerequisites.
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Microsoft’s New Memory Optimized Ebsv5 VM Sizes in Preview Offer More Performance
Microsoft recently announced two additional Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VM) sizes, E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5, to the Ebsv5 VM family developed with the NVMe protocol providing performance up to 260,000 IOPS and 8,000 MBps remote disk storage throughput.
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AWS Lambda SnapStart Accelerates Java Functions
At the recent re:Invent, AWS announced an update to its FaaS offering Lambda with SnapStart feature that reduces the cold start for Java Functions.
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Microsoft Introduces New Azure HX and HBv4 Virtual Machines for High-Performance Computing
Microsoft recently announced new HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines (VMs) in preview suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis, frontend and backend electronic design automation (EDA), rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, AI inference, and financial risk analysis.
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Docker Desktop 4.14 Adds Resource Usage Monitor and Vulnerability Discovery
The latest version of Docker Desktop introduces a number of new features, including resource usage monitor and vulnerability discovery. Additionally, Docker Desktop 4.14 adopts the latest Docker Engine, Docker Compose, and Containerd releases.
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AWS Adds Container Lens to Well-Architected Framework
AWS has added a new container lens to its Well-Architected Framework. This new technical paper outlines best practices sourced from the community, AWS partners, and AWS's internal container technology specialists. These best practices provide guidance for running high-performance, reliable, and secure container workloads. The paper also includes reference architectures for a few common use cases.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale
Mei-Chin Sei and Vinod Sridharan spoke at QCon San Francisco on Azure Cosmos DB: Low Latency and High Availability at Planet Scale. The talk was part of the "Architectures You've Always Wondered About" track.
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Building High-Trust and High-Performing Teams at Shopify in a Remote World
Jesse McGinnis spoke at QCon San Francisco on building high-trust and high-performing teams at Shopify in a remote world. He started by pointing out his talk on high-trust teams in a remote world.
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Google Announces New Infrastructure Offerings with C3 Virtual Machines and Hyperdisk
At the latest Cloud Next’22 conference, Google announced two new infrastructure platform offerings with the Compute Engine C3 machine series optimized for high-performance computing and next-generation block storage called Hyperdisk optimized for data-intensive workloads such as Hadoop and DBMS.
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Performance Testing Should Focus on Trends
Performance testing starts by setting a baseline and defining the metrics to track together with the development team. Nikolay Avramov advises executing performance tests and comparing the results frequently during development to spot degrading performance as soon as possible.
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Google Cloud Introduces Startup CPU Boost for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions 2nd Gen
Google Cloud recently introduced startup CPU boost for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions 2nd gen, a new feature that allows developers to significantly reduce the cold start time of Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. The new capability is currently in preview.
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Amazon Switched Compression from Gzip to Zstd for Own Service Data
A tweet from Adrian Cockcroft, former VP at Amazon, recently highlighted the benefits of switching from gzip to Zstandard compression at Amazon and triggered discussions in the community about the compression algorithm. Other large corporations, including Twitter and Honeycomb, shared interesting gains using zstd.