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LambdaML: Pros and Cons of Serverless for Deep Network Training
A new study entitled "Towards Demystifying Serverless Machine Learning Training" aims to provide an experimental analysis of training deep networks by leveraging serverless platforms. FaaS for training has challenges due to its distributed nature and aggregation step in the learning algorithms. Results indicate FaaS can be a faster (for lightweight models) but not cheaper alternative than IaaS.
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MicroVM Virtualization Solution Firecracker Reaches 1.0
Originally developed at AWS to power AWS Lambda, Firecracker enables creating and managing secure microVMs for serverless computing.
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CNCF Publishes State of Cloud Native Development Report
CNCF has published the latest edition of the State of Cloud Native Development Report. An important finding from the report indicates that the cloud native developer population has grown by 0.3 million during the period from Q1 2020 to Q1 2021. Edge computing has the highest usage rates of containers and Kubernetes, with 63% of edge developers adopting Kubernetes and 76% adopting containers.
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Knative Announces v1.1 and Applies to Become a CNCF Incubating Project
The Knative community released version 1.1 of the Knative project across multiple components. The core components serving and eventing have notable changes and introduce experimental features, such as global min-scale configuration, capability to handle Retry-After headers in 429 / 503 responses.
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Cloudflare Introduces Support for Relational Database Connections Through Workers
Cloudflare recently announced they are introducing support for relational database connections through Workers, their serverless application platform. The initial support is for Postgres and MySQL. There are still a number of challenges that the Cloudflare team are working through and there are opportunities for community contributions.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021
After one year as a virtual-only event, re:invent was back last week to Las Vegas with fewer attendees for the 10th edition, and with multiple sessions and keynotes, including a first one for the new CEO Adam Selipsky. AWS announced new features and improvements, with a focus more on packaged solutions than new primitives.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Redshift Serverless
As part of a trend towards serverless analytics options, AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Redshift Serverless. The latest version of the managed data warehouse service targets deployments where it is difficult to manage capacity due to variable workloads or unpredictable spikes.
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AWS Step Functions Gains Integrations with over 200 Additional Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that AWS Step Functions supports over 200 AWS services via an AWS SDK integration, thereby expanding the number of supported API actions from 46 to over 9,000. The new integration type can support most existing and future services and API actions going forward.
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Airbnb Open Sources Ottr: a Serverless Public Key Infrastructure Framework
Airbnb announced that it has open-sourced Ottr, a serverless public key infrastructure framework developed in-house. Ottr handles end-to-end certificate rotations without the use of an agent. Ottr's primary design goal is to be a scalable and configurable serverless framework on AWS with little operational overhead or reliance on enrollment protocols.
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Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachDB Serverless
Cockroach Labs announced today the public beta of CockroachDB Serverless. CockroachDB Serverless delivers a fully elastic cloud data infrastructure that enables building applications with less planning for capacity, performance, or availability. It's based on CockroachDB, a NewSQL database that seeks to combine the scalability of NoSQL systems with ACID guarantees of a traditional database system.
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Fauna Introduces Fauna Labs to Help Developers Adopt Database Service
The company behind the Fauna transactional database has recently announced Fauna Labs, a collection of experimental tools to help developers integrate Fauna in their applications, including infrastructure as code and single sign-on application templates.
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AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS introduced a new Workflow Studio for its Step Functions offering. Through the AWS Management Console, developers can now access a visual builder to create Step Functions workflows.
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Lightbend Announces Akka Serverless Open Beta
Lightbend today announced the launch of Akka Serverless open beta, with general availability later this year. Akka Serverless is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that aims at cloud-native application development. It is built on Lightbend's Akka Platform technology and delivered via a model similar to existing serverless offerings.
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Amazon SNS Gains Message Archiving and Analytics via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that Amazon SNS supports Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose subscriptions to send messages to "data lakes, data stores, and analytics services [...] without writing custom code". The new event destination also simplifies the integration of third-party service providers.
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Bridgecrew's Yor Provides Automated Tagging for Infrastructure as Code
Bridgecrew recently released Yor, their open-source tool for automated infrastructure as code tagging. Yor automatically adds tags to infrastructure configurations which are then applied to the running cloud resources, simplifying connecting the active resources back to the code that created them. Yor currently supports Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless.