Software — General Information — April 28th, 2025
5 SaaS Fundamental Principles Every Entrepreneur Must Focus On
What separates a thriving SaaS business from one that fizzles out in obscurity? It's not just about having a new product or a sleek user interface. In fact, many promising SaaS ventures fail because they overlook the deeper principles that drive sustainable success. The truth is, building a SaaS company is as much about strategy as it is about software.
April 28, 2025 — Source
InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - 2025
Each year, InfoQ editors and industry experts meet to discuss the latest trends we're observing in software architecture and design. We categorize those trends using the Crossing the Chasm model created by Geoffrey A. Moore. Based on our collective opinion, the trends identified as innovator or early adopter are the primary focus for InfoQ editorial staff for the next year.
April 28, 2025 — Source
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Bolstered by Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
Oracle has stood up and optimized its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed and ready for customer use on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop and run next-generation reasoning models and AI agents. Oracle's state-of-the-art GB200 deployment includes high-speed NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking to enable scalable, low-latency performance, as well as a full stack of software and database integrations from NVIDIA and OCI.
April 28, 2025 — Source
What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack
When your customers work in super-sensitive situations, bad jokes make for bad business
April 28, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — April 25th, 2025
Distributed Cloud Computing: Enhancing Privacy with AI-Driven Solutions
As the world becomes increasingly digital, the need for secure and private data processing has never been more pressing. Distributed cloud computing offers a promising solution to this challenge by allowing data to be processed in a decentralized manner, reducing reliance on centralized servers and minimizing the risk of data breaches.
April 25, 2025 — Source
Scalability 101: How to Build, Measure, and Improve It
Scalability is probably one of the most crucial non-business features of every modern-day system and this post is a perfect intro to it.
April 25, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — April 17th, 2025
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
April 17, 2025 — Source
QCon London 2025: Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
In a pragmatic and insightful session at QCon London 2025, Louis Ryan, CTO of Solo.io—a company deeply involved in cloud-native networking—and a co-creator of the influential Istio service mesh, tackled the complex realities of building robust networking across hybrid cloud environments. Part of the highly relevant "Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures" track, Ryan's talk, "Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise -- Some Assembly Required," drew an audience of architects and platform engineers.
April 17, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — April 11th, 2025
7 Effective Conflict Resolution Strategies for Software Development Teams
In this post, we will look at 7 actionable strategies to encourage software development teams to look beyond conflicts and focus on delivering high-quality projects
April 11, 2025 — Source
Browser MCP and Cursor: Easily Automate Web Tasks and Online Data Collection
The Browser MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, when paired with Cursor, provides a comprehensive platform for automating browser tasks and testing web applications. By combining browser navigation, data extraction, and documentation collection, this tool significantly reduces the time and effort required for repetitive workflows. It is particularly useful for developers, researchers, and professionals seeking to enhance productivity.
April 11, 2025 — Source
Chaos Engineering for Microservices
Learn how to implement chaos engineering using Chaos Toolkit and Chaos Monkey for Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, Kubernetes, and Istio to enhance system resilience.
April 11, 2025 — Source
Google Cloud Next 2025 Opening Keynote
Google Cloud Next 2023 presented a comprehensive showcase of advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), cloud infrastructure, and enterprise tools. These innovations are designed to enhance performance, scalability, and accessibility for businesses across various industries. From innovative AI hardware to productivity-enhancing tools, the event highlighted Google's dedication to driving technological progress. Below is an in-depth exploration of the most notable announcements.
April 11, 2025 — Source
How Senior Software Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers
A rigid hierarchical dynamic between senior and junior software engineers can stifle innovation, discourage fresh perspectives, and create barriers to collaboration. According to Beth Anderson, senior engineers can actively learn from their junior counterparts. She suggests creating an environment of mutual growth, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
April 11, 2025 — Source
Meta goes to trial to avoid a breakup of Instagram and WhatsApp
Did Meta illegally monopolize the market for "personal social networking services?"
April 11, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — April 7th, 2025
The shift from on-call engineers to agentic incident management
Every engineering team I've been a part of has had a 10x engineer. They were active contributors to design reviews -- developing a deep, intuitive understanding of the product and every new feature. Beyond writing code, they reviewed every pull request, tracked every change across the product, and kept a mental map of how all the pieces fit together. They were in the right Slack channels, constantly evaluating process or infrastructure changes to understand how their team might be impacted.
April 7, 2025 — Source
Why companies may be overthinking their cloud transformation
Cloud migration is an essential step for companies looking to scale, optimize, and future-proof their operations, but many organizations find themselves overwhelmed by the complexity of migration, often overthinking the process and getting stuck in a paralysis of what if rather than keeping focused on the more important why.
April 7, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — April 4th, 2025
Achieving Zero Trust and Air-Gapped IaC in IBM Cloud With Schematics
IBM Cloud Schematics enables secure, automated, and policy-driven IaC deployments in air-gapped environments by enforcing zero-trust principles.
April 4, 2025 — Source
Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption
The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides
April 4, 2025 — Source
How to Launch Usage-Based Pricing for SaaS and AI
Usage-based pricing is reshaping how tech companies drive revenue and deliver value, allowing SaaS and AI producers to offset sky-high cloud costs while enabling greater flexibility.
April 4, 2025 — Source
Docker versus Kubernetes: Which to Use and When?
Docker is great for building containers; Kubernetes scales and manages them. Use Docker for small stuff, K8s for big, or both for max power!
April 4, 2025 — Source
How to Connect Slack to n8n
Integrating Slack with n8n offers a robust solution for automating workflows, enhancing communication, and managing data more effectively. By combining Slack's dynamic communication tools with n8n's powerful automation capabilities, you can create a seamless system that improves productivity and delivers better results. This guide by Alessandro Colford outlines the steps to set up a Slack workspace, build an AI-powered app, and integrate it with Airtable for efficient data management.
April 4, 2025 — Source
In their own words: Microsoft leaders, past and present, on the company's legacy and impact
What's the significance of Microsoft in modern business and tech history?
April 4, 2025 — Source
Why I've covered Microsoft for 25 years
My fascination with Microsoft products started with building PCs as a teenager.
April 4, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — April 2nd, 2025
7 Best Enterprise CRM Software for 2025
Explore the top enterprise CRM solutions by comparing key features, pros and cons, and pricing to help you choose the ideal solution for your business.
April 2, 2025 — Source
AWS CloudTrail Monitoring Using Event-Driven Ansible
Automate AWS CloudTrail event responses with Event-Driven Ansible. Learn how to monitor EC2 actions and trigger workflows for security, compliance, and efficiency.
April 2, 2025 — Source
Bridging OT and IT: IIoT Middleware for Edge and Cloud With Kafka and Flink
Explore how IIoT middleware and data streaming tools like Kafka and Flink bridge OT and IT, enabling real-time integration and smarter industrial operations.
April 2, 2025 — Source
Bringing a Product Mindset to an Infrastructure Platform Team
Stephane Di Cesare discusses DKB's experience introducing a product mindset within their platform team, explaining their definition of a platform team, the rationale behind the shift, and their journey including challenges, goals, and key learnings around user value, platform definition, maturity models, and effective communication strategies for senior software developers and engineering leaders.
April 2, 2025 — Source
Data doesn't lie, but Microsoft's new Power BI prices might make you cry
Hike is no joke and users are not laughing
April 2, 2025 — Source
Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence
Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue
April 2, 2025 — Source
Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options
£5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support
April 2, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 31st, 2025
AWS WAF Classic versus WAFV2: Features and Migration Considerations
AWS WAFV2 is a major upgrade over WAF Classic, offering better scalability, flexibility, and automation. We'll also look at key migration considerations.
March 31, 2025 — Source
CNCF Accepts Kubescape as an Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) recently announced that it has accepted Kubescape as an incubating project. Kubescape offers security coverage for the Kubernetes environment from development to deployment. It is available as a CLI tool and a Kubernetes operator.
March 31, 2025 — Source
Four men loom large in Microsoft history
Microsoft was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella over the course of the last half-century in the male-dominated tech world.
March 31, 2025 — Source
How to Compute without Looking: a Sneak Peek into Secure Multi-Party Computation
Secure Multi-party Computation (SMPC) is used in the industry to secure data owned by multiple parties that do not completely trust one another. It allows you to compute anything that can be calculated by a single computer in a distributed fashion, while also ensuring privacy of the data used for the computation and correctness of the results.
March 31, 2025 — Source
OpenSearch Cluster Topologies for Cost Saving Autoscaling
Amitai Stern discusses cost-saving autoscaling topologies for OpenSearch. He explains the inherent challenges in autoscaling unstructured data systems like OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, using analogies to illustrate the complexities beyond simply adding nodes. He shares architectural patterns (burst indexes, burst clusters) to optimize resource utilization and handle fluctuating loads effectively.
March 31, 2025 — Source
Product Design versus Platform Design for Software Development
Compare platform and product design approaches for business needs. Understand their differences and compare them to find the best fit for your use case.
March 31, 2025 — Source
Secret Sprawl in Public Repos is Worse Than Ever, Finds New Report
Security firm GitGuardian has announced a report showing that the unintended exposure of credentials such as API keys and passwords, known as "secrets sprawl," has worsened significantly during 2024. The report found an increase of 25% in secrets found in public GitHub code repositories compared to the previous year.
March 31, 2025 — Source
The Production-Ready Kubernetes Service Checklist
Prepare your Kubernetes cluster for production with high availability, private networking, robust security, monitoring, auto-scaling, backups, and fault tolerance.
March 31, 2025 — Source
The Role of DevSecOps in Securing Multi-Cloud Architectures
Discover how DevSecOps enhances security in multi-cloud ecosystems, enabling safe implementation and addressing key challenges with effective strategies.
March 31, 2025 — Source
UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago
FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live
March 31, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 28th, 2025
Confluent Cloud Streamlines Real-Time AI with New Flink Capabilities
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink has introduced Flink Native Inference, Flink search, and built-in ML functions, offering a unified Flink SQL solution. These new features aim to simplify real-time AI development by eliminating workflow fragmentation, reducing costs, and enhancing security.
March 28, 2025 — Source
DiRMA: Measuring How Your Organization Manages Chaos
In today's complex technological landscape, traditional error budgets are no longer sufficient to address modern challenges such as cloud outages, AI bias, data loss, and regulatory compliance. To build more resilient systems, companies like Google, Netflix, Slack, and CapitalOne have adopted structured methodologies such as CE and DiRT.
March 28, 2025 — Source
Docker Desktop 4.39 Brings Docker Smart AI Agent, CLI in GA, and Enhanced Multi-Platform Support
Docker has released Docker Desktop 4.39. This version brings Docker Smart AI Agent with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Kubernetes Integration, Docker Desktop CLI GA, and enhanced multi-platform support aiming to make it easier for users to manage multi-platform container images.
March 28, 2025 — Source
The hidden cost of legacy systems: How they hinder ROI and digital transformation
At this point in time, it is essential for one's company to transform digitally in order to stay competitive and work efficiently. Most organizations will pour money into new modern technologies to heavily improve ROI and operational performance while ensuring they stay relevant in the new digital world. However, there is a barrier that stands in the way of achieving the maximum benefits: legacy systems.
March 28, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 24th, 2025
Google Cloud Announces Kubernetes History Inspector to Visualise Cluster Logs
Google Cloud has released a new open-source tool that visualises cluster logs chronologically to simplify troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments.
March 24, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 17th, 2025
.NET Team Announces Release of HybridCache Library for .NET 9
Last week, the .NET Team announced the release of HybridCache, a new .NET 9 library, now available through Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Hybrid package. According to the source, the library is designed to enhance data storage and retrieval performance by combining both in-memory and distributed caches, such as Redis. This approach aims to ensure optimal performance and security for applications, regardless of their scale or complexity.
March 17, 2025 — Source
Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied
Maddening techno bass loop, Zoolander reference, and 14 minutes of time wasted
March 17, 2025 — Source
Rebalancing Agile: Bringing People Back into Focus
Agile has become delivery-focused, stifling growth and innovation. To fix this, prioritize people, foster autonomy, and shift focus to quality and continuous learning.
March 17, 2025 — Source
This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer
Well, maybe not richer, but we're about to find out
March 17, 2025 — Source
William Blair Notes That Palantir And Databricks "Rarely See Each Other In Bidding Situations" Due To The Industry's High TAM, Which Explains The Recent Partnership Between The 2 Rivals
Palantir - an AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that allows companies and government agencies to gather and analyze reams of data, enabling the detection of hidden patterns within complex datasets - seems to have delivered on elevated expectations in relation to the last week's AIPCon event, with the company announcing as many as ten commercial partnerships inked over the past few days alone, including a very unusual partnership with its chief rival Databricks.
March 17, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 13th, 2025
Microsoft Enhances Azure Elastic SAN with Auto Scale, Snapshot Support, and CRC Protection
Microsoft recently announced several new updates to its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering.
March 13, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 12th, 2025
From a Lambda-Lith to an Event Driven Architecture -- Lessons Learned
Leo Hanisch discusses the challenges of the "Lambda-Lith" approach and the benefits of embracing EDAs.
March 12, 2025 — Source
Grafana Loki Introduces v3.4 with Standardized Storage and Unified Telemetry
Grafana Loki recently introduced their version 3.4, which includes enhancements aimed at improving the efficiency and log management standardization. One of the key updates is the integration of the Thanos Object Storage Client, which aligns Loki's storage configuration with other Grafana databases, such as Mimir and Pyroscope.
March 12, 2025 — Source
Local Development with Workflow Studio for Step Functions
AWS recently announced that it enhanced its local IDE experience for Step Functions with Workflow Studio, now available in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) via the AWS Toolkit extension. This integration enables developers to create and edit state machines locally, using the same visual authoring tools as in the AWS Console.
March 12, 2025 — Source
Machine identities outnumber humans 40,000 to one
Are you ready to welcome our new machine overlords? Okay, that might be a bit drastic, but the latest report from Sysdig reveals that there are now 40,000x more machine identities than human identities.
March 12, 2025 — Source
Mobile Backend With Docker, Kubernetes, and Microservices
Docker and Kubernetes enable scalable, resilient mobile backends with auto-scaling and monitoring. CI/CD, caching, and Istio enhance performance and security.
March 12, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 11th, 2025
Apex Testing: Tips for Writing Robust Salesforce Test Methods
Improve your Apex testing skills with strategies for handling test data, managing governor limits, and manipulating time-based logic.
March 11, 2025 — Source
Borderless Cloud: Designing, Implementing, and Securing Apps across Multiple Clouds
Adora Nwodo explores the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into an application's architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines.
March 11, 2025 — Source
How GitLab Automated ECR Image Migration and Pull Delays
GitLab recently discussed a solution to automate the migration of container images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) to GitLab's Container Registry. The team created a CI/CD pipeline to automate the process of discovering, retagging, and transferring container images from Amazon ECR to GitLab's Container Registry.
March 11, 2025 — Source
How to Deploy Karpenter on AWS Kubernetes With kOps
Karpenter is no longer officially supported by kOps. This blog walks you through the step-by-step process of deploying Karpenter on a kOps-managed AWS Kubernetes cluster.
March 11, 2025 — Source
How to Use GPU Nodes in Amazon EKS
In this article, we'll run GPU nodes in AWS EKS in seven simple steps via nvidia-driver and will check basic methods to debug it after the deployment.
March 11, 2025 — Source
Keyword versus Vector Search: Why Hybrid Systems Are the Future for Search System Supremacy
When designing search systems, the decision to use keyword-based search, vector-based search, or a hybrid approach can significantly impact performance, relevance, and user satisfaction. Each method offers distinct advantages and challenges, making it essential to understand their capabilities and applications. This overview provides more insights into the strengths, limitations, and practical implementation of these approaches, particularly in systems like PostgreSQL.
March 11, 2025 — Source
Mistral OCR -- The World's Best Document Understanding Model
Mistral OCR represents a significant advancement in the field of optical character recognition (OCR), offering a robust solution for extracting text from diverse document types. Designed to handle a wide range of inputs—including PDFs, images, and handwritten documents—it combines speed, accuracy, and flexibility to meet the demands of modern workflows. Its ability to process complex, multilingual, and multimodal content makes it an indispensable tool for organizations aiming to streamline document digitization and analysis.
March 11, 2025 — Source
Oracle Plans to Use 30,000 AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs for AI Cloud
AMD's Instinct MI355X accelerators for AI workloads are gaining traction, and Oracle just became one of the bigger customers. According to Oracle's latest financial results, the company noted that it had acquired 30,000 AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators. "In Q3, we signed a multi billion dollar contract with AMD to build a cluster of 30,000 of their latest MI355X GPUs," noted Larry Ellison, adding that "And all four of the leading cloud security companies, CrowdStrike, Cyber Reason, Newfold Digital and Palo Alto, they all decided to move to the Oracle Cloud.
March 11, 2025 — Source
Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts
Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free.
March 11, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — March 10th, 2025
China Release Manis Fully Autonomous AI Agent : Open Source AI Redefining the Future
China has introduced "Manis," the first fully autonomous AI agent capable of operating without human intervention. This innovative development marks a significant milestone in artificial intelligence, blending open source accessibility with advanced task execution. Imagine a world where your to-do list completes itself while you're sipping coffee or catching up on your favorite show. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, that future might be closer than you think.
March 10, 2025 — Source
Have You Heard About Cloud Native Buildpacks?
Build OCI images without a Dockerfile using Cloud Native Buildpacks. Automate best practices, enhance security, and streamline deployment effortlessly.
March 10, 2025 — Source
The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline
The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline ensures strategic alignment, backlog health, and focus on outcomes, avoiding the feature factory trap and driving real product value.
March 10, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — February 28th, 2025
Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool
Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure have jointly announced a new open-source project called Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro, pronounced "crow"). The project is an attempt to standardise how Kubernetes resources are grouped together and deployed, and it aims to make it easier for platform teams to deploy workloads.
February 28, 2025 — Source
Google Cloud Introduces Quantum-Safe Digital Signatures in Cloud KMS to Future-Proof Data Security
Google recently unveiled quantum-safe digital signatures in its Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), aligning with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. This update, now available in preview, addresses the growing concern over the potential risks posed by future quantum computers, which could crack traditional encryption methods.
February 28, 2025 — Source
Grafana Loki Fundamentals and Architecture
Grafana Loki is a scalable, cost-efficient log system for cloud-native environments. It uses minimal indexing, compressed storage, and LogQL for fast queries.
February 28, 2025 — Source
Key Use Cases of the Event-Driven Ansible Webhook Module
The ansible.eda.webhook plugin automates workflows via webhooks, aiding CI/CD, incident response, config management, compliance, and cloud infrastructure.
February 28, 2025 — Source
UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?
Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements
February 28, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — February 17th, 2025
Build a Data Analytics Platform With Flask, SQL, and Redis
Building a Flask-based web app that has dynamic querying for population thresholds, Redis caching for faster queries, and secure, scalable architecture.
February 17, 2025 — Source
Creating a Web Project: Key Steps to Identify Issues
Learn how to identify web project issues through performance analysis, effective debugging, and product metrics tracking.
February 17, 2025 — Source
Page Transactions and Page Object Model
A structured comparison of Page Transactions and the Page Object Model, with the pros and cons of each pattern and tips for migrating from one to the other.
February 17, 2025 — Source
The Slides of Hands-On Agile 2025
The virtual Hands-on Agile 2025 conference held last month discussed embracing the shift to context-based agility, from leadership to strategy to AI.
February 17, 2025 — Source
Understanding Infrastructure as Code at Scale
A detailed analysis of how large enterprises adopt Infrastructure as Code and the challenges they face when scaling during cloud migration.
February 17, 2025 — Source
Why Cloud Matters: Building Global, Scalable Microservices
A hands-on experience: Learn how to build a Book Management Catalog Microservice using Java, Helidon, Jakarta NoSQL, and Oracle Cloud.
February 17, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — February 14th, 2025
AWS vacates its board seat at European cloud crew CISPE
... weeks after US titan was outvoted by other members to let Microsoft join the Euro cloud trade association
February 14, 2025 — Source
Contextual analysis for recommending code reviewers
Code review is essential in software development, playing a vital role in enhancing product quality by catching mistakes early on. An integral part of this procedure is choosing the right reviewers to examine modifications to the code. Yet, in expansive open-source projects, pinpointing the ideal reviewers for certain changes can be quite complex.
February 14, 2025 — Source
Duolingo's Duo the Owl and other characters are being taken out, one by one
The situation seems to be escalating.
February 14, 2025 — Source
Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot
Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say
February 14, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — February 10th, 2025
10 Microsoft Project & Planner Features You Should Be Using
The productivity app formerly known as Microsoft Project is now part of Microsoft Planner, an app recently redesigned to help anyone who is looking to organize their day, tasks, and projects. It offers solutions for your own task management as well as professional project management. While you won't find it in your app store anymore, Microsoft Project's features remain available in their new home, joined by several new Microsoft Planner features and the new Planner app for Microsoft Teams and the upgraded version of Teams Premium --- all enhanced with AI through Microsoft 365 Copilot.
February 10, 2025 — Source
Enhancing API Integration Efficiency With a Mock Client
Learn how to use a mock client connector for your integration, enabling you to develop and test your application without needing access to a live API.
February 10, 2025 — Source
Improving Cloud Infrastructure for Achieving AGI
Achieving AGI requires improved cloud infrastructure, including more computational power, better algorithms, real-time data handling, and energy efficiency.
February 10, 2025 — Source
Slack Enhances Accessibility Testing through Automation
Slack recently integrated automated accessibility testing into its software development lifecycle to improve user experience for individuals with disabilities.
February 7, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — February 7th, 2025
Unlock the Secrets of Task Automation with Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate is a versatile tool designed to automate repetitive tasks and streamline workflows across Microsoft applications and third-party platforms. If you ever found yourself bogged down by those repetitive tasks that eat away at your time and energy. Whether it's sorting through endless emails, managing file organization, or sending out recurring reminders. These small but time-consuming chores can leave you feeling overwhelmed and distracted from what truly matters.
February 7, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — February 5th, 2025
Detecting Patterns in Event Streams With FlinkCEP
Patterns play a big role in ESP as they help to spot important sequences or behaviors in data that keep flowing nonstop.
February 5th, 2025 — Source
DOGE latest: Citrix supremo has 'read-only' access to US Treasury payment system
CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing for Team Elon
February 5th, 2025 — Source
Dynatrace strengthens cloud security posture management
Dynatrace announced the expansion of its security portfolio with a new Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution.
February 5th, 2025 — Source
How Spring Boot Starters Integrate With Your Project
The article provides an overview of Spring Boot starters, which are pre-packaged sets of dependencies that simplify adding functionality to Spring Boot applications.
February 5th, 2025 — Source
InfoQ's New Certification Focuses on Practical Skills for Senior Developers and Architects
InfoQ is introducing its first hands-on software architecture certification at QCon London 2025 (April 7-10), the international software development conference. The certification will combine practitioner-led conference sessions with a hands-on workshop focused on real-world architectural challenges.
February 5th, 2025 — Source
Master Your Productivity: Building the Ultimate Notion Task Manager
Are you ready to take control of your tasks and streamline your workflow? Notion provides a highly customizable platform that allows you to design a task management system tailored to your specific needs. This guide will walk you through the process of creating a robust task manager, complete with features such as recurring tasks, subtasks, progress tracking, and automation. By the end, you'll have a personalized system that enhances your productivity and adapts seamlessly to your unique workflow.
February 5th, 2025 — Source or Watch Video
Mastering the Transition: From Amazon EMR to EMR on EKS
Optimize your data processing by seamlessly transitioning from Amazon EMR to EMR on EKS. Discover best practices and tips for a smooth migration.
February 5th, 2025 — Source
Microsoft Build 2025 Developer Conference Set for May 19-22 in Seattle
This year's event will be longer, lasting four days instead of three in past years.
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Most UK Software Buyers Regret Their Purchases Because of Hidden Costs, Research Finds
Most UK Software Buyers Regret Their Purchases Because of Hidden Costs, Research Finds
February 5th, 2025 — Source
Optimizing Front-End Performance
Learn how lazy loading, image optimization, and code minification improve front-end performance, boosting load times and user experience.
February 5th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — February 3rd, 2025
Best Practices for API Rate Limits and Quotas
Rate limits protect your infrastructure, and quotas help you monetize your APIs. Both are key parts of a healthy API strategy.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 24th, 2025
2025 Roles Based Copilot, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Roadmap Announced
Release wave 1, which will occur between April and September 2025, will primarily focus on automation and AI capabilities across those Microsoft products and services. The upcoming slate of releases will also focus on the overall user experience by providing new collaboration and workflow tools and resources.
January 24th, 2025 — Source
Accelerating HCM Cloud Implementation With RPA
Streamline HCM cloud implementation with RPA: automate data migration, MFA handling, role management, and UAT for faster, accurate, and secure deployments.
January 24th, 2025 — Source
Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss*
January 24th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 22nd, 2025
A Practical Guide to Creating a Spring Modulith Project
Spring Modulith simplifies modular app development in Spring Boot and enables well-structured, domain-driven design with seamless Spring ecosystem integration.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source
Adobe Institutes New Features for Creative Cloud on the Eve of Sundance
As the annual Sundance Utah Film Festival approaches, Adobe has announced its winter updates to Creative Cloud.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source
Automate Serverless Deployments With Ansible and OCI
In this article, learn to automate serverless deployments with Ansible and OCI Functions to simplify workflows, scale apps, and reduce operational complexities.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source
Caching Strategies for Resilient Distributed Systems
Caching boosts performance in distributed systems but can fail. Mitigate risks with intermediate caches and smart caching strategies. Always design for cache failure.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source
Streamline npm Packages: Optimize and Boost Performance
Bloated node_modules folders and slow build times stem from unmanaged npm dependencies, leading to inefficiencies and potential risks.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source
The Truth About Cheap Software Keys and Where to Buy
Everyone loves a great deal, and software is no exception. Sure, there are plenty of excellent free and open-source options out there, but they don't always cover every need—especially when it comes to must-haves like Microsoft products or the latest games. That's when you start hunting for bargains. Enter cheap software keys: they're everywhere, promising premium tools like Windows, Office, and Adobe at a fraction of the price. But are they the real deal, or is there a catch? Let's break it down MajorGeeks style—straightforward, no fluff, and everything you need to know.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 20th, 2025
AWS Adds Container Insights with Enhanced Observability to Elastic Container Service
AWS recently announced the launch of Container Insights with Enhanced Observability for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). This is along the lines of a similar feature previously introduced for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This new capability aims to improve monitoring and troubleshooting for container workloads.
January 20th, 2025 — Source
AWS CloudTrail Insights for AWS Glue
AWS CloudTrail Insights can detect unusual API activity in your AWS environment. This feature helps spot anomalies and fix potential issues more easily.
January 20th, 2025 — Source
Building a Reactive Event-Driven App With Dead Letter Queue
Learn how to build fault-tolerant, reactive event-driven applications using Spring WebFlux, Apache Kafka, and Dead Letter Queue to handle data loss efficiently.
January 20th, 2025 — Source
Private Internet Access VPN Review: How Good Is PIA VPN?
When it comes to privacy and security, PIA VPN is among the best. Discover its features, performance, pricing, and more with this in-depth review.
January 20th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 17th, 2025
5 High-Demand Data Roles in 2025 That Will Shape the Future Workforce -- Are You Ready?
The data industry is evolving rapidly, and by 2026, certain roles will be critical for driving innovation, efficiency, and strategic decision-making across industries. As organizations increasingly rely on data to gain a competitive edge, professionals with the right skills and expertise will be in high demand. If you're considering a career in data, understanding these roles and the skills they require is essential.
January 17th, 2025 — Source
Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration
Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory
January 17th, 2025 — Source
What is Whitelisting an Application and When to Use It?
Has your antivirus software ever flagged a perfectly safe application as a threat, prompting a WTH moment? It's called a false positive, and it can be pretty frustrating not only because you know the file is good, but now you can't get the program to run or download due to the flag.
January 17th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 13th, 2025
Custom SCD2 Implementation Using PySpark
Learn to implement Slowly Changing Dimension Type 2 (SCD2) in a data warehouse for tracking historical data, ensuring data integrity, and enabling scalability.
January 13th, 2025 — Source
OpenTelemetry versus Dynatrace: Key Differences Explained
OpenTelemetry is free and flexible for those wanting control, while Dynatrace is paid and automated, ideal for easy setup and AI-driven insights.
January 13th, 2025 — Source
Process Mining Key Elements
This article introduces process mining, explaining its key elements and practical applications for discovering and analyzing workflows using event data.
January 13th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 10th, 2025
5 Signs You Need a Virtual Firewall to Secure Your Cloud
Discover when a virtual firewall excels plus its advantages over traditional options so you can determine if it's right for you.
January 10th, 2025 — Source
Agile Alliance Joins the Project Management Institute
The Agile Alliance has officially joined the Project Management Institute (PMI), forming the PMI Agile Alliance as of December 31, 2024. The partnership aims to enhance global project management by integrating Agile principles with PMI's resources and reach. While many celebrate the expanded opportunities for collaboration, professional development, and innovation, critics express concerns about the potential dilution of Agile values and the loss of independence for Agile Alliance.
January 10th, 2025 — Source
Building a Sample Kubernetes Operator on Minikube: A Step-by-Step Guide
Build a Kubernetes Operator on Minikube to manage custom resources, automate tasks, and extend functionality using the Operator SDK.
January 10th, 2025 — Source
Low-Maintenance Backend Architectures for Scalable Applications
The art of building low-maintenance back-end systems with modularity, scalability, and simplicity, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and future-proof designs.
January 10th, 2025 — Source
Netflix Enhances Metaflow with New Configuration Capabilities
Netflix has introduced a significant enhancement to its Metaflow machine learning infrastructure: a new Config object that brings powerful configuration management to ML workflows. This addition addresses a common challenge faced by Netflix's teams, which manage thousands of unique Metaflow flows across diverse ML and AI use cases.
January 10th, 2025 — Source
Proton worldwide outage caused by Kubernetes migration, software change
Swiss tech company Proton, which provides privacy-focused online services, says that a Thursday worldwide outage was caused by an ongoing infrastructure migration to Kubernetes and a software change that triggered an initial load spike.
January 10th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 9th, 2025
A Hands-On Guide to Enable Amazon GuardDuty on AWS Account
This hands-on guide will help you enable Amazon GuardDuty via the AWS Console in order to monitor and detect security threats in your AWS environment.
January 9th, 2025 — Source
Amazon Launches High Memory U7inh EC2 Instance for Enhanced SAP HANA Workloads
AWS has recently announced the general availability (GA) of its new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) High Memory U7inh instance, developed in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). This instance is designed to support large, mission-critical in-memory database workloads, such as SAP HANA.
January 9th, 2025 — Source
Are Outdated Software Installers Putting Your Business at Risk?
When an installer fails, it’s easy to dismiss it as a minor inconvenience—simply retry the process. However, this seemingly small issue can signal more significant problems. Without a reliable, up-to-date software installer, you may struggle to deploy the latest versions of your software, leaving end-users and enterprises stuck with outdated tools.
January 9th, 2025 — Source
Learnings from Internal Tool Migrations to Support Software Engineering Efficiency
In her presentation at QCon San Francisco, Ying Dai shared two critical software engineering migration stories - one focused on production monitoring and the other on production deployments with automated validations. Both migrations were driven by the goal of enhancing engineering efficiency, but each came with its own challenges and lessons.
January 9th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 8th, 2025
Automating AWS Infrastructure Testing With Terratest
Terratest validates Terraform-based AWS resources, running checks and tearing them down afterward to catch issues early and prevent production misconfigurations.
January 8th, 2025 — Source
AWS Cloud Security: Key Components, Common Vulnerabilities, and Best Practices
Organizations can achieve a robust security posture in AWS by understanding key AWS security components, mitigating vulnerabilities, and adhering to best practices.
January 8th, 2025 — Source
Dev Home and Dev Boxes: Revolutionizing Developer Environments
Learn the concepts of Dev Home and Dev Boxes, the steps to install them, their benefits, and the potential of how they transform the way developers work.
January 8th, 2025 — Source
Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK
Maureen Costello hopes to 'empower' businesses with AI
January 8th, 2025 — Source
Top 5 Key Features of Apache Iceberg for Modern Data Lakes
Gain insight into key Iceberg features such as time travel, schema evolution, partition evolution, and ACID transactions with clear SQL examples and diagrams.
January 8th, 2025 — Source
When (Tech Service) Relationships Don’t Work Out
When an existing implementation no longer aligns with business objectives, existing cloud resources can be exposed via the concept of VPC Peering.
January 8th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 7th, 2025
A Deep Dive on Read Your Own Writes Consistency
This article is intended for distributed systems practitioners looking to understand and implement Read Your Own Writes consistency in production environments.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
Automating Twilio Recording Exports for Quality Purposes: Python Implementation Guidelines
Discover how to use Python to download recordings from Twilio and transcribe them for sentimental analysis, quality, and audit purposes.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
Enhancing Cloud Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Protection
Cloud computing enhances infrastructure but raises security risks. Developers must secure systems with zero trust, automation, and collaboration.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
Essential GitHub Enterprise Admin Commands
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) administrators can ensure their environments remain robust, secure, and responsive to organizational needs.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
Pathway to Legacy Application Retirement
This article looks at application retirement from a data perspective, best practices, challenges, and how to manage and leverage data during this process.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
O11y Guide: Finding Observability and DevEx Tranquility With Platform Engineering
This guide explores how to avoid drowning in the sea of monitoring data to instead understand how to provide insights while using only what is needed.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
On SBOMs, BitBucket, and OWASP Dependency Track
Learn how to send your system's SBOM from BitBucket to Dependency Track for dashboarding of vulnerabilities and onerous license conditions.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
Scaling CI/CD: Standardizing Pipelines in Large-Scale Organizations
Standardize CI/CD pipelines in large organizations for improved scalability and governance while overcoming technical diversity and resistance to change.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
Usage of GenAI for Personalized Customer Experience in Mobile Apps
Generative AI enhances mobile apps with personalized, engaging user experiences, delighting users through smart data use and continuous improvement.
January 7th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 6th, 2025
Automating Kubernetes Workload Rightsizing With StormForge
StormForge automates Kubernetes workload rightsizing using machine learning to optimize resource utilization and performance.
January 6th, 2025 — Source
Version Control in Agile: Best Practices for Teams
Some version control practices for Agile teams to improve collaboration, streamline workflows, and prevent conflicts, ensuring efficient software delivery.
January 6th, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 3rd, 2025
Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code!
Services operated and managed by cloud providers - known as fully managed services - are not new. For example, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) are fully managed services from AWS and are nearly two decades old.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source
Kubernetes in the Cloud: A Guide to Observability
Kubernetes Observability: Use metrics, logs, and traces to understand your system, solve problems faster, and improve performance.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 2nd, 2025
How to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps
InnerSource helped reduce the amount of development work involved when introducing GitOps by sharing company-specific logic, Jemma Hussein Allen said at QCon London. In her talk, she showed how they went from copy and paste deployments to full GitOps. She mentioned that a psychologically safe environment is really important for open and honest discussions that can help resolve pain points and drive innovation.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source
Kubernetes Deployments With DMZ Clusters: An Essential Guide
A DMZ cluster in Kubernetes secures public services from internal workloads, enhancing scalability, reducing attack surface, and ensuring controlled access.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source
Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d'refresh
40% of world's servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE
January 2nd, 2025 — Source
Troubleshooting Kubernetes Pod Crashes: Common Causes and Effective Solutions
Let's face it: Kubernetes pod crashes can be confusing. This article explores the common causes and effective solutions to debug Kubernetes pod crashes.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — January 1st, 2025
CI/CD Pipelines for Kubernetes Using GitLab CI
Modern software development demands rapid deployment cycles, scalability, and resilience. Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to orchestration platform, enabling scalable containerized application management. When combined with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments become automated, repeatable, and reliable.
January 1st, 2025 — Source
Software — General Information — December 31st, 2024
Agile Failure Has Strengthened, Not Weakened, Software
2024 is promised to be the year of generative AI. Instead, it has been the year of catastrophic software outages. Earlier this year, we saw outages affecting high-street shops, banks, and cloud vendors, whilst those of us in the UK saw the Post Office Horizon IT scandal reach new levels of public outrage.
December 31st, 2024 — Source
AWS Adds News Amazon Q Developer Agent Capabilities: Doc Generation, Code Reviews, and Unit Tests
AWS has enhanced its generative AI-powered Amazon Q Developer, streamlining software development with new agent capabilities. Key features include automated documentation, code reviews, and unit test generation, allowing developers to focus on coding. Available in all AWS Regions, Amazon Q Developer simplifies processes in IDEs like Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA.
December 31st, 2024 — Source
Enhancing DevOps in the Cloud With AI Innovation
Learn how AI-driven tools are transforming DevOps practices in cloud environments, improving automation, efficiency, and scalability by leveraging AI.
December 31st, 2024 — Source
KubeVirt Implementation: Who Needs It and Why?
KubeVirt lets Kubernetes manage VMs with containers, streamlining infrastructure. It supports legacy apps, cuts costs, enhances flexibility, and is easy to deploy.
December 31st, 2024 — Source
Navigating challenges and opportunities of cloud migrations in 2025
As 2025 approaches, the role of cloud migrations in organizational strategy continues to intensify. In our current era of accelerated digital transformation, businesses face the dual challenge of optimizing their operations and navigating complex compliance requirements. Cloud technologies stand at the forefront of this transformation, offering scalability, operational flexibility, and data management capabilities that are essential for success in today's digital economy.
December 31st, 2024 — Source
The Importance of Kubernetes in MLOps and Its Influence on Modern Businesses
MLOps, or Machine Learning Operations, is a set of practices that combine machine learning (ML), data engineering, and DevOps to streamline and automate the end-to-end ML model lifecycle. MLOps is an essential aspect of the current data science workflows. It is a foundational component of the contemporary information technology landscape, and its influence is expected to increase significantly in the coming years. It encompasses everything from data processing and model development to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, making it a crucial discipline in integrating machine learning into production environments.
December 31st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — December 30th, 2024
Automated Kubernetes Testing With Terratest: A Step-by-Step Guide
Ensuring the stability and correctness of Kubernetes infrastructure and application deployments can be challenging due to the dynamic and complex nature of containerized environments. Traditional manual testing methods are time-consuming, error-prone, and insufficient for validating the integration and behavior of resources like pods, services, and deployments.
December 30th, 2024 — Source
Kubernetes Ephemeral Containers: Enhancing Security and Streamlining Troubleshooting in Production Clusters
Ephemeral containers in Kubernetes offer secure, short-lived debugging without disturbing primary workloads, then vanish — reducing risk and overhead.
December 30th, 2024 — Source
Load Testing Essentials for High-Traffic Applications
Load testing ensures apps handle peak traffic, prevent bottlenecks, and remain scalable, reliable, and optimized for real-world performance under heavy loads.
December 30th, 2024 — Source
UK antitrust watchdog launches review of IBM's HashiCorp takeover
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the U.K.'s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM's planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp would affect competition. The CMA said Monday it was inviting comment on the merger from interested parties by January 16.
December 30th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — December 26th, 2024
Seamless CI/CD Integration: Playwright and GitHub Actions
Integrate Playwright with GitHub Actions to automate testing and deployment workflows, ensuring seamless CI/CD, rapid feedback, and reliable web apps.
December 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — December 25th, 2024
Addressing the Problem of Drift Detection and Drift Cause Analysis
This article discusses a scenario where runtime environments deviate from their IaC-defined states, and drifts can have long-term implications.
December 25th, 2024 — Source
Strengthening Cloud Security: Privacy-Preserving Techniques for Compliance With Regulations and the NIST Framework
As cloud adoption increases, it becomes essential to secure data while adhering to GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA regulations through the use of privacy-preserving techniques.
December 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — December 16th, 2024
Enhancing Security in Kubernetes: A Comparative Analysis of Cosign and Connaisseur
Boost Kubernetes security with Cosign's image signing and Connaisseur's strict verification. Learn how these tools protect your containers from unauthorized access.
December 16th, 2024 — Source
Get Started with Asana Today: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Effective project management is crucial for success. Asana, a cloud-based project management tool, offers a user-friendly solution for individuals and teams looking to streamline their workflows, improve collaboration, and boost productivity. With its intuitive interface and robust features, Asana empowers users to organize tasks, track progress, and communicate seamlessly, making it an ideal choice for beginners and experienced project managers alike.
December 16th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video
Launching Pega Web Mashup Forms on a Secure Static Website With AWS S3
Learn how to configure and deploy Pega Web Mashup forms on a static website hosted in an AWS S3 bucket for seamless user access and simplified infrastructure.
December 16th, 2024 — Source
LogRhythm vs. SolarWinds (2024): SIEM Tool Comparison
This is an in-depth LogRhythm vs. SolarWinds SIEM tool comparison, covering their key features, pricing, and more. Use this guide to find your best fit.
December 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — December 10th, 2024
Demystifying Kubernetes in 5 Minutes
Take a few minutes to learn about Kubernetes: a powerful container orchestration platform that simplifies the management of applications.
December 10th, 2024 — Source
Streamline Your Workflows with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard designed to enable secure, two-way communication between tools and data sources. Its flexibility and efficiency make it a valuable resource for simplifying workflows, automating tasks, and integrating diverse technologies into a cohesive system. This overview provides a detailed walkthrough of the setup process, explores its core functionalities, and highlights its practical applications for developers and users.
December 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — December 6th, 2024
9 Best Construction Project Management Software for 2025
Find the best construction project management software. Compare the features, pricing, and benefits of top solutions to streamline your construction projects.
December 6th, 2024 — Source
Ask the Expert: What are my career options at a slow-growing software-as-a-service company?
Hello, GeekWire readers. I'm excited to announce that we're launching a new business advice column, featuring different experts from the Pacific Northwest tech community, answering questions about an array of topics. It's inspired by common questions from tech workers and entrepreneurs.
December 6th, 2024 — Source
Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate
Schools taken out of scope, but £108M plan still dwarfs initial £20M
December 6th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft faces massive class action payouts in cloud computing pricing case
Microsoft could be hit with over £1 billion ($1.27 billion) in charges if a huge class action case brought against the firm by UK businesses succeeds.
December 6th, 2024 — Source
Optimizing Amazon ECS with Predictive Scaling
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released Predictive Scaling for Amazon ECS, an advanced scaling policy that employs machine learning (ML) algorithms to anticipate demand surges, ensuring applications remain highly available and responsive while minimizing resource overprovisioning.
December 6th, 2024 — Source
SaaS Migration Plan: Moving On-Prem Software to SaaS
As reported in the 2025 Monetization Monitor, it typically takes software producers between one and three years to fully execute a SaaS migration plan, with 43% confirming this as their timeline.
December 6th, 2024 — Source
Singapore's Data Maturity Crisis: Are Data Pros Ready to Tackle the Challenge?
Explore the pressing data maturity problem in Singapore and what data professionals must do to adapt to the evolving landscape.
December 6th, 2024 — Source
Veteran Microsoft engineer shares some enterprise support tips
How to tell a customer they're an idiot without telling them they're an idiot
December 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — December 1st, 2024
Aurora Serverless v2 Adds Zero-Capacity Scaling for True Serverless
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 has recently announced that it now supports scaling to zero capacity, enabling the database to automatically pause after a period of inactivity based on database connections. The lack of the ability to scale to zero capacity for Aurora's on-demand automatic scaling configuration has been a contentious topic for many years.
December 1st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 29th, 2024
Designing Cloud Applications for Elasticity and Resilience
The panelists explore elasticity and resilience, discussing how architects can design systems that withstand workload variations, user traffic fluctuations, and infrastructure failures.
November 29th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 27th, 2024
Anna Berenberg Talks at QCon San Francisco on Google's One Network
At QCon, Anna Berenberg, an engineering fellow at Google Cloud, discussed One Network, a cloud-agnostic networking architecture designed to unify and simplify the increasingly complex world of interconnected systems.
November 27th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 25th, 2024
32-Bit versus 64-Bit Computing and Why it Matters
Hey there, Geeks! Have you ever been browsing through the MajorGeeks files database and saw both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same program listed? Wondered about the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit computing / and software? You've come to the right place. Let's dive into the fascinating world of bits and bytes and clear this up for you.
November 25th, 2024 — Source
Master Digital Note-Taking: 10 Lessons You Need to Know
If you are searching for ways to improve your digital note-taking these 10 lessons will help to stop yourself drowning in a sea of digital notes. In our quest to capture every fleeting thought, insightful quote, or useful fact, it’s easy to mistake quantity for progress. More notes don’t necessarily mean more clarity. In fact, they can often lead to overwhelm, leaving you with a bloated system that feels more like a burden than a tool.
November 25th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft shuttering dedicated licensing education, certification site
Spreading the content around other places – and may also sprinkle some AI in because why not
November 25th, 2024 — Source
Scaling OpenSearch Clusters for Cost Efficiency Talk by Amitai Stern at QCon San Francisco
At a recent QCon San Francisco talk, Amitai Stern, engineering manager at Logz.io and a member of the OpenSearch Leadership Committee, shared practical insights on managing OpenSearch clusters efficiently in environments with fluctuating workloads. His "OpenSearch Cluster Topologies for Cost-Saving Autoscaling" session explored strategies to scale OpenSearch effectively while minimizing costs.
November 25th, 2024 — Source
Simplifying SBOM Imports for Software Providers
Software providers face increasing demands for transparency, security, and regulatory compliance. Managing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) is key to meeting these requirements, but it’s no small feat when SBOM parts come from multiple sources, including internal teams, upstream partners, and external vendors.
November 25th, 2024 — Source
Unlock Your Productivity: 8 Notion Tips for Getting Organized Fast
Staying organized and productive is essential for success. Notion, a powerful productivity tool, offers a wide range of features to help you streamline your workflow and boost efficiency. By implementing these eight tips, you can unlock your productivity and take your organization to the next level. The video below from Jeef Su shows us a range of tips to help you get organized.
November 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 23rd, 2024
The role of data recovery in cyber resilience
Data Recovery is the key to achieving an effective cyber resilience strategy in the event of a cyber-attack to resume business operational resiliency. It empowers businesses to quickly recover their critical data, minimize downtime, and prevent against potential threats. Data recovery planning is crucial for business continuity, allowing organizations to seamlessly recover data and minimize the impact of an incident.
November 23rd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 21st, 2024
Proxmox VE 8.3 -- Enhanced Features for Enterprise Virtualization
Proxmox Server Solutions released Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) version 8.3, the latest iteration of its open-source enterprise virtualization platform. Designed to provide comprehensive virtualization capabilities, Proxmox VE combines essential management tools with a streamlined web interface, making it suitable for organizations across industries to deploy high-availability, clustered virtual environments. Users can leverage the platform globally to build and manage expansive infrastructure deployments that span geographic regions while integrating multiple applications efficiently.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
WordPress.com owner Automattic snaps up grammar checker Harper
WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another company to its portfolio of online content creation tools and services with its acquisition of Grammarly competitor, Harper. Although it's competing in the same space as the popular grammar checker used by many online writers, Harper's tool is aimed at developers, open source, and works to maintain privacy by processing its checks locally on your device, the company says.
November 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 18th, 2024
Amazon hires former Microsoft and SAP exec Julia White as new AWS marketing chief
Julia White, a longtime Microsoft executive who spent the past four years at SAP, has been named the chief marketing officer and vice president at Amazon Web Services.
November 18th, 2024 — Source
The future of facilities management software [Q&A]
The facilities management sector is in the midst of a digital evolution, driven by trends such as sustainability and smart buildings, and there are also increased regulatory demands in the mix.
November 18th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 17th, 2024
Apple Acknowledges iCloud Notes Disappearing Issue, Offers Fix
Apple provided a fix for an issue where iPhone users temporarily lost access to their iCloud notes after accepting updated terms and conditions.
November 17th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 16th, 2024
GitHub projects targeted with malicious commits to frame researcher
GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects.
November 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 15th, 2024
From NASA to AWS to Momento: Seattle startup's journey to reinvent cloud caching
We are in a world where we are consuming interactive applications and content from our mobile devices. But we rarely think about the technologies that make this happen.
November 15th, 2024 — Source
FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft's cloud business
Microsoft is accused of using punitive licensing terms for Azure.
November 15th, 2024 — Source
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly expected to launch an investigation into Microsoft's cloud computing business for potential anti-competitive behavior.
Launching a product doesn't have to feel like blindly solving a Rubik's cube — the right product launch template will help you map out your strategy, high-level goals, in-the-weeds details, and all the work it'll take to get there.
November 15th, 2024 — Source
US FTC Reportedly Plans Investigation into Microsoft's Cloud Practices
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly expected to launch an investigation into Microsoft's cloud computing business for potential anti-competitive behavior.
November 15th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 12th, 2024
Akamai App Platform reduces the complexity associated with managing Kubernetes clusters
Akamai announced the Akamai App Platform, a ready-to-run solution that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale highly distributed applications.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
Best Cloud Storage Software Options
With hacking and data theft becoming common, it's important to keep all your most precious documents, photos and videos safe in one of the best cloud storage services available.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
LocalStack raises $25M to help developers emulate and test cloud apps locally
Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the environment in which it will be deployed, be that AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or wherever. But this can be a resource-intensive endeavor, particularly with issues relating to latency (the time it takes to constantly send data) and the costs associated with this.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
PointFive snaps up $20M for breakthrough tech to track usage across multiple clouds
Enterprise spending on cloud services continues to go up, up, up — to the tune of $675 billion this year — thanks to organizations' firm embrace of software-as-a-service, the popularity of distributed working, and the arrival of compute-intensive tech like AI.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
Preventing side-channels in the cloud
Cloud computing delivers scalable and cost-effective compute resources to a wide range of customers. The ability for cloud providers to share components of the hardware stack across customers, or tenants, is essential for running efficient cloud systems. For example, modern central processing units (CPUs) pack hundreds of physical hardware threads sharing terabytes of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), which can be flexibly assigned to many independent virtual machines (VMs).
November 12th, 2024 — Source
ScaleOps aims to take the frustration out of cloud management
Thanks to AI, the appetite for cloud services is growing. Cloud expenditures more than doubled between 2019 and 2023, and are expected to eclipse $2 trillion by 2030, according to Goldman Sachs Research.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
SUSE launches a cloud observability service
Luxembourg-based SUSE has long offered various services around its various Linux- and cloud-centric infrastructure and security tools. Yet what the company didn't really offer before was a more traditional SaaS product. That's changing now with the early access launch of SUSE Cloud Observability, a fully managed observability platform designed for Rancher-managed multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
Wall Street analysts claim Microsoft's $13 billion OpenAI investment is "some of the best money ever spent" despite bankruptcy reports — Here's why
Microsoft's strategic partnership with OpenAI leaves it with the longer end of the stick, according to market analysts.
November 12th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 10th, 2024
Google Cloud upgrades AI infrastructure with Trillium TPU and Nvidia-powered VMs
New Trillium TPU promises fourfold increase in training speed and threefold in inference
November 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 8th, 2024
CISPE framework aids EU Data Act compliance, cloud switching
'It helps Euro organizations to avoid lock-in and design the cloud strategy they want'
November 8th, 2024 — Source
Optimizing Uber's Search Infrastructure: Upgrading to Apache Lucene 9.5
Uber Engineering recently announced an upgrade to their search infrastructure, transitioning from Apache Lucene 8.0 to version 9.5. This upgrade improves Uber's search capabilities, performance and efficiency across their various services.
November 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 5th, 2024
Don't have MFA on a Google Cloud account? You'll have to from Jan
Lock it up. Lock it up
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Google Cloud to make multi-factor authentication mandatory in 2025
Google has confirmed plans to require all Google Cloud customers to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), a process that kicks off this month with prompts and "helpful reminders" embedded inside the Google Cloud console, before a gradual enforcement period starting in the new year.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Organizing Logging Between the Three IBM App Connect Form Factors
Learn how to coordinate your logging strategy across ACE, ACEcc, and ACEaaS, and how to access the more common form of logging across all the form factors.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Optimizing Your Data Pipeline: Choosing the Right Approach for Efficient Data Handling and Transformation Through ETL and ELT
ETL and ELT are vital for data integration and accessibility. Learn how to select the right approach based on your infrastructure, data volume, data complexity, and more.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Seattle breaks into top 3 in new ecosystem ranking for early stage software startup funding
A new ranking of top U.S. ecosystems based on early stage funding data reflects Seattle's continued strength in software-related innovation.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Symbiotic Security helps developers find bugs as they code
Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down
Mint has been shut down for the past seven months; if you haven't already switched, we rounded up the best Mint alternatives.
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud
From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna -- same ingredients, different structure, says analyst
November 5th, 2024 — Source
VMware by Broadcom finds friends to advance its private cloud and AI visions
User group members offered more generous discounts and licenses we're sure nobody would abuse
November 5th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — November 1st, 2024
Addressing data governance in a hybrid cloud world
As more organizations look to deploy AI and LLMs across their operations to drive a competitive edge, ensuring the data being used to power these innovations is of high enough quality is becoming business critical. To give these AI and LLM innovations the best chance of success, many organizations are turning to hybrid cloud infrastructures, making use of both on-premises and cloud to ensure they can tap into valuable data.
November 1st, 2024 — Source
Data Governance Essentials: Glossaries, Catalogs, and Lineage (Part 5)
Discover how business glossaries, data catalogs, and data lineage work together to enhance data quality, compliance, transparency, and operational efficiency.
November 1st, 2024 — Source
Cloudflare Introduces Workflows for Building Scalable Resilient Multi-Step Applications
Cloudflare has launched "Workflows," a durable execution engine on its Cloudflare Workers platform, which is now in open beta. Workflows enable developers to create scalable, multi-step applications that can persist through failures like network instability, server downtimes, or code errors, offering automated retries and state management without manual infrastructure handling.
November 1st, 2024 — Source
Monitoring Kubernetes Service Topology Changes in Real-Time
Stateful, distributed, containerized applications require real-time monitoring of cluster changes. Learn how EndpointSlices API provides a scalable solution.
November 1st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 30th, 2024
Compliance Automated Standard Solution (COMPASS), Part 7: Compliance-to-Policy for IT Operation Policies Using Auditree
Implement the functionality of a CPAC for IT operations compliance that requires imperative policies with an example C2P plugin implementation for Auditree.
October 30th, 2024 — Source
Identity system modernization held back by 'technical debt'
Modernizing identity systems is proving difficult for organizations due to two key challenges, decades of accumulated identity and access management (IAM) technical debt and the complexity of managing access across multiple identity providers (IDPs).
October 30th, 2024 — Source
Judges are using algorithms to justify doing what they already want
Algorithmic risk scores might be obscuring a broader issue with how the judicial system works.
October 30th, 2024 — Source
Navigating API Challenges in Kubernetes
Traditional API management solutions struggle to keep pace with the distributed nature of Kubernetes. Dive into some solutions for efficient Kubernetes-native API management.
October 30th, 2024 — Source
Navigating Software Due Diligence
In today's tech-driven world, checking out software before buying or integrating it into your business is a must. This process, known as software due diligence, involves a deep dive into the software's nuts and bolts to spot any potential issues. While it's crucial for avoiding nasty surprises later on, it can also be quite a bumpy ride.
October 30th, 2024 — Source
Passbolt versus Bitwarden (2024): Which Is Better?
There are many open-source password managers out there. Bitwarden and Passbolt are two of the better ones. How do they compare?
October 30th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 28th, 2024
The Power of Market Disruption: How to Detect Fraud With Graph Data
Market disruptors pave the way for innovation and break barriers once considered bulletproof. PuppyGraph uses market disruption and graph data to detect fraud.
October 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 25th, 2024
Apple Offers $1M to Anyone Who Can Hack Its Private Cloud Compute
Apple is offering up to $1 million to researchers who uncover vulnerabilities in its Private Cloud Compute (PCC), which will launch next week.
October 25th, 2024 — Source
Employee Monitoring Around the World: The Definitive Guide
Employee monitoring is a great way to ensure your team is on-task so you can catch mistakes early and gain valuable insight into how your employees work. However, if you and your company go about it the wrong way, you could find yourself in serious trouble.
October 25th, 2024 — Source
Logic App Standard Hybrid Deployment Model Public Preview: More Flexibility and Control On-Premise
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model, which allows organizations to have additional flexibility and control over running their Logic Apps on-premises.
October 25th, 2024 — Source
Reactive Kafka With Spring Boot
Learn how to build generic, easily configurable, testable reactive consumers, producers, and DLT with Kotlin, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Testcontainers.
October 25th, 2024 — Source
Right-Sizing GPU and CPU Resources for Training and Inferencing Using Kubernetes
Learn how to harness advances in Kubernetes to optimize resource allocation by prioritizing workloads dynamically and efficiently based on need.
October 25th, 2024 — Source
The UK’s antitrust regulator will formally investigate Alphabet’s $2.3 billion Anthropic investment
Anthropic makes the Claude chatbot and AI models that compete with Google’s Gemini AI.
October 25th, 2024 — Source
UK Probes Alphabet’s Partnership With Anthropic Over Competition Concerns
Google’s parent company has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the AI startup and owns a 10% stake. Meanwhile, the Claude models are hosted with Google Cloud services.
October 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 22nd, 2024
AI/ML Innovation in the Kubernetes Ecosystem
Recent innovations like the Model Registry, ModelCars feature, and TrustyAI are delivering manageability, speed, and accountability for AI/ML workloads
October 23rd, 2024 — Source
Cloud attacks grow in cost and scale
A new report from Sysdig highlights the growing cost and scale of cloud attacks and the evolution of tactics being used by attackers.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source
Good observability drives productivity for developer and ops teams
Based on a survey of 1,850 ITOps and developer professionals, it finds enterprises with good observability resolve issues faster, boost developer productivity, control costs and improve customer satisfaction. Due to such benefits, 86 percent of all respondents plan to increase their observability investments.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source
Old credentials never die they just present a cloud security risk
Long-lived cloud credentials never expire and frequently get leaked in source code, container images, build logs and application artifacts, making them a major security risk. The report finds that 46 percent of organizations are still using unmanaged users with long-lived credentials.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source
Platform Engineering: A Strategic Response to the Growing Complexity of Modern Software Architectures
Learn how platform engineering streamlines complex software architectures, empowering development teams with scalability and agility.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 20th, 2024
Microsoft 365 Roadmap Weekly: Outlook will get better mail merge features and more
Welcome again to our weekly look back at the Microsoft 365 Roadmap website as we check out some new entries. This week there are some new features on the site that it says will be added to the Outlook email client. We have already reported on some upcoming features this past week like Outlook themes generated by AI via Copilot, and that a previously announced offline email sync feature would become available by the end of December in preview.
October 20th, 2024 — Source
Severe flaws in E2EE cloud storage platforms used by millions
Several end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage platforms are vulnerable to a set of security issues that could expose user data to malicious actors.
October 20th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 16th, 2024
An Interview About Navigating the Cloud-Native Ecosystem
This interview centers around Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry, and how the future of cloud native will involve hybrid approaches that leverage both platforms.
October 16th, 2024 — Source
Critical default credential in Kubernetes Image Builder allows SSH root access
It's called leaving the door wide open – especially in Proxmox
October 16th, 2024 — Source
Critical Kubernetes Image Builder flaw gives SSH root access to VMs
A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes could allow unauthorized SSH access to a virtual machine running an image created with the Kubernetes Image Builder project.
October 16th, 2024 — Source
Google Shows Production NVIDIA "Blackwell" GB200 NVL System for Cloud
Last week, we got a preview of Microsoft's Azure production-ready NVIDIA "Blackwell" GB200 system, showing that only a third of the rack that goes in the data center is actually holding the compute elements, with the other two-thirds holding the cooling compartment to cool down the immense heat output from tens of GB200 GPUs.
October 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 12th, 2024
Scaling Uber's Batch Data Platform: a Journey to the Cloud with Data Mesh Principles
Some months ago, Uber started a migration of its batch data analytics and machine learning platform to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In a recent post on its engineering blog, Uber provided additional information regarding its batch data cloud migration, which incorporated crucial data mesh principles.
October 12th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 10th, 2024
6 Years of Data Analysis Lessons in 10 Minutes
Over the past six years, the financial services industry has witnessed a significant shift towards data-driven decision-making. In this rapidly evolving landscape, data analysis has emerged as a critical skill for professionals seeking to excel in their careers. To succeed in this field, one must possess a unique blend of technical expertise, industry-specific knowledge, and a well-defined career strategy.
October 10th, 2024 — Source
Exploring the hidden costs of free apps
Procrastination, sleep deprivation and reduced focus are part of the price we pay for free mobile apps. This is according to researchers at Linköping University and RISE, who have investigated the costs hidden behind the free apps. Based on their results, they also have some advice for decision-makers.
October 10th, 2024 — Source
JFrog Integrates Runtime Security for Enhanced DevSecOps Platform
JFrog has introduced JFrog Runtime to its suite of security capabilities, adding real-time vulnerability detection to its software supply chain platform. This update is aimed at developers and DevSecOps teams working with Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native applications.
October 10th, 2024 — Source
Qualys launches cloud-based risk operations center
Organizations are facing an ever-growing volume of risk alerts spread across multiple, disconnected top-10 dashboards. This fragmented view can result in conflicting analyses, duplicate work, missed threats, and strategies that fail to fully protect the organization.
October 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 8th, 2024
Jenkins in the Age of Kubernetes: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Its Future in CI/CD
Learn why despite the rise of modern, cloud-native CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and CircleCI, Jenkins remains a heavyweight in the CI and delivery space.
October 8th, 2024 — Source
The Shift Left Architecture: From Batch and Lakehouse to Data Streaming
Explore the Shift Left Architecture using data streaming (Kafka/Flink) that enables data products for DWH, data lake, and lakehouses like Snowflake/Databricks.
October 8th, 2024 — Source
What Is a Performance Engineer and How to Become One: Part 1
Considering the current expectations and requirements of many companies and stakeholders, learn some of the skills required for performance engineers.
October 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — Office — October 8th, 2024
Google Docs adds tabs to help you stay organized
You can now create multiple tabs and subtabs in one Google Doc file.
October 8th, 2024 — Source
Google Docs Rolls Out Tabs to Boost Your Efficiency: How to Use Them
Tabs are rolling out in Google Docs over the following weeks to make longer documents more manageable.
October 8th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Word bug: The word processor will delete your files if you do this
Don't worry, there are workarounds.
October 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 7th, 2024
Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about how it uses custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure.
October 7th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — October 6th, 2024
AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, open source, and closing services
It was quite a surprise when Adam Selipsky stepped down as the CEO of Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit. What was maybe just as much of a surprise was that Matt Garman succeeded him. Garman joined Amazon as an intern in 2005 and became a full-time employee in 2006, working on the early AWS products.
October 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 25th, 2024
AWS Launches Graviton4-Powered Memory-Optimized EC2 X8g Instances for High-Memory Workloads
AWS has launched Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances designed for high-memory workloads. Available in ten virtual sizes and two bare metal configurations, these instances offer up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and 192 vCPUs, with significant performance enhancements over previous models.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Mistral Pixtral 12B Open Source Vision Model Performance Tested
Mistral AI has released Pixtral 12B, an open-source vision model designed for multimodal tasks. This model, which is Apache 2.0 licensed, excels in both image and text data processing. It demonstrates strong performance in instruction following and text-only benchmarks, making it a versatile tool for various applications.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Optimizing External Secrets Operator Traffic
Learn how to efficiently implement External Secrets Operator in your Kubernetes cluster to reap the benefits of External Secrets Management systems.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Unforgiving consumers says poor software is as bad as contaminated food
A new survey from software delivery platform Harness finds that 66 percent of UK consumers think software companies releasing 'bad' code that causes mass outages is on par with, or worse than, supermarkets selling contaminated products that break laws on food safety.
September 25th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 23rd, 2024
Blue-Green Deployment: Update Your Software Risk Free
Unpack fundamentals of blue-green deployment, explore benefits, dive into practical applications within AWS, and compare with alternative deployment methods.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source
ServiceNow root certificate blunder leaves users high and dry
More like ServiceNo, or maybe ServiceNotforawhile
September 23rd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 21st, 2024
The Arc browser that lets you customize websites had a serious vulnerability
It would've allowed bad actors to easily compromise their target's computer.
September 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 19th, 2024
Battle of the RabbitMQ Queues: Performance Insights on Classic and Quorum
When deciding between RabbitMQ's Classic and Quorum queues, it's important to recognize that both have their strengths and weaknesses.
September 19th, 2024 — Source
Edera raises $5 million to improve Kubernetes security
Edera announced it has raised $5 million in a seed round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures with participation from FPV Ventures, Generationship, Precursor Ventures and Rosecliff Ventures. Angel investors include Joe Beda, Filippo Valsorda, Mandy Andress, Jeff Behl and Kleiner Perkins scout Nikitha Suryadevara, among others.
September 19th, 2024 — Source
New Platform sbomify Streamlines Making Software Inventories for SBOMs
A new platform named sbomify has been unveiled to tackle the difficulties encountered by businesses when handling and distributing Software Bills of Materials (SBOM). Its goal is to streamline and automate SBOM procedures as regulatory demands continue to rise in the industry.
September 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 16th, 2024
Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool. This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features.
September 16th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft sends "Final Notice" before you lose Outlook access on third-party apps today
Microsoft has been sending out a "Final Notice" email to several users recently. The mail in question, with the subject "Final notice - you may lose access to some of your third-party mail and calendar apps" is meant to serve as a warning to such users who are using third-party mail and calendar apps to access Outlook email.
September 16th, 2024 — Source
What is Cloud Computing and Edge AI and how are they reshaping the way data is processed
Cloud computing and Edge AI are two transformative technologies reshaping the way data is processed, stored, and analyzed in today's digital landscape. Cloud computing enables organizations to store and access vast amounts of data over the internet, eliminating the need for local servers and providing on-demand computational resources.
September 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 15th, 2024
DryMerge promises to connect apps that normally don’t talk to each other — and when it works, it’s great
Platforms to connect apps that wouldn’t normally talk to each other have been around for a minute. But they have not gotten dramatically simpler to use if you’re nontechnical. Generative AI has lowered the barrier to entry somewhat. However, getting the most out of these platforms — and fixing things when they break — still requires a bit of programming know-how.
September 15th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 13th, 2024
As Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate, questions remain over licensing
Some users will see the appeal of Big Red stacking its hardware in Amazon's datacenters
September 13th, 2024 — Source
Master Project Management with Airtable
Airtable is a cloud-based collaboration platform that combines elements of a database with the usability of a spreadsheet. It allows users to organize data in a flexible, visual format that resembles a spreadsheet but with enhanced database functionalities like linking records, creating relations, and automating workflows.
September 13th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 9th, 2024
TP-Link launches Omada Cloud Essentials for cloud-based network management
TP-Link has introduced Omada Cloud Essentials, a cloud management platform designed for surveillance networks, large homes, and businesses. Omada's architecture includes multiple controllers: on-premises hardware, software, and cloud-based options.
September 9th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 7th, 2024
AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Mac Builds
Amazon has recently announced that AWS CodeBuild, its managed build service, now supports building applications on macOS. However, due to Apple's licensing requirements, developers must still reserve a dedicated macOS fleet to utilize this new option.
September 7th, 2024 — Source
Best Cloud Web Hosting for 2024
We researched dozens of cloud web hosting companies and selected the top five to help you find the right host for your site.
September 7th, 2024 — Source
Optimizing Continuous Deployment at Uber: Automating Microservices in Large Monorepos
In a recent post
Software — General Information — September 6th, 2024
Product Vision vs. Technical Strategy: Bridging the Product-Engineering Gap
Understanding and bridging the gap between product vision and engineering strategy is increasingly becoming a crucial step for product success.
September 6th, 2024 — Source
Principles of Modern Data Infrastructure
Explore principles of modern data infrastructure such as scalability, high availability, speed, security, maintainability, efficiency, and developer experience.
September 6th, 2024 — Source
What's needed for SBOM success? [Q&A]
Enterprises are increasingly looking to software bills of materials (SBOM) to understand the components inside the tech products they use in order to secure their software supply chain.
September 6th, 2024 — Source
Why I'm waging a personal war against bloatware
And it's not why you might think!
September 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 3rd, 2024
.NET Aspire 8.2: Components Renamed to Integrations, Enhanced Testing, and More Improvements
.NET Aspire 8.2 has been officially released, bringing enhancements focused on onboarding, testing, and overall quality-of-life improvements. A significant change in this version is the renaming of Components to Integrations.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source
Cloud computing hits the nuclear button amid energy crisis
Other options considered too as the power draw on electricity grids continues unabated
September 3rd, 2024 — Source
Maximize your cloud storage with these 5 tools and tricks
Online storage such as OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive save and synchronize files automatically. However, as storage space is limited, you should use convenient tools to clear out superfluous files.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source
Open Standards for Data Lineage: OpenLineage for Batch and Streaming
Explores trends and efforts to provide an open standard with OpenLineage, and how data governance solutions help fulfill enterprise-wide data governance needs.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — September 2nd, 2024
Going on a Threat Hunt: Advanced Strategies for Defending the Digital Frontier
By seeking out and identifying hidden threats, security teams can neutralize advanced attacks that might evade automated systems.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source
New Arduino Cloud Image widget now available to enhance your IoT dashboards
Arduino has introduced a new feature to its Arduino Cloud platform: the Image widget. This addition aims to improve the user experience by allowing for greater customization and visual appeal in IoT dashboards. The Image widget supports various image formats and offers multiple display options, making it a versatile tool for enhancing dashboard aesthetics and functionality.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source
The future of data analytics in business intelligence [Q&A]
In a little more than a decade, data analytics has been through several big transformations. First, it became digitized. Second, we witnessed the emergence of 'big data' analytics, driven partly by digitization and partly by massively improved storage and processing capabilities.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 27th, 2024
Google Cloud Launches C4 Machine Series: High-Performance Computing and Data Analytics
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of its new C4 machine series, powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). The series offers a range of configurations tailored to meet the needs of demanding applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), large-scale simulations, and data analytics.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft Sway abused in massive QR code phishing campaign
A massive QR code phishing campaign abused Microsoft Sway, a cloud-based tool for creating online presentations, to host landing pages to trick Microsoft 365 users into handing over their credentials.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
nOps lands $30M to optimize AWS customers' cloud spend
Companies don't necessarily have to produce breakthrough technology to gain market traction. Undercutting rivals on price can be enough to make a dent in a competitive sector. So can leaning on connections to land customers in need of a timely solution to a problem.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
Telemetry Pipelines Workshop: Integrating Fluent Bit With OpenTelemetry, Part 1
Take a look at integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry for use cases where this connectivity in your telemetry data infrastructure is essential.
August 27th, 2024 — Source
VMware reveals how it will deliver Broadcom's unified hybrid cloud ... sometime soon
Claims just two management consoles will emerge
August 27th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 26th, 2024
Multi-Agent System’s Architecture
Multi-agent systems distribute decision-making across multiple agents, improving output through diverse perspectives and reducing bias.
August 26th, 2024 — Source
SharePoint Framework 1.20 Improves Viva Connections Components
Microsoft recently released a preview version 1.20 of SharePoint Framework with several updates for Viva Connections cards, four months after the last minor version 1.19. The public release is expected for September 2024.
August 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 22nd, 2024
Multicluster Gateways With Kubernetes Gateway API
In this article, discover how to use the Gateway API spec to configure gateways for multicluster setup.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 21st, 2024
AWS Introduces Logically Air-Gapped Vault for Enhanced Data Security
AWS recently announced the public preview of SourceAWS Backup logically air-gapped vault, a new type of vault that can be shared for recovery with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM).
August 21st, 2024 — Source
Google Cloud Unveils New Security Services and Capabilities
Several security-related enhancements have been announced at the 2024 Google Cloud Security Summit.
August 21st, 2024 — Source
Intricacies of Zero-to-One Software Projects
Explore risks for greenfield or zero-to-one projects and discover the main reasons why many such projects fail.
August 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 16th, 2024
The challenges of securing Active Directory [Q&A]
Microsoft Active Directory is used by a majority of the world's organizations. But Cyberattacks and misconfigurations targeting AD have surged in recent years, leading to critical outages and data loss.
August 16th, 2024 — Source
The Relationship Between Performance and Security
Performance and security are closely related and can affect each other. Explore why and how software engineers need to consider the implications wisely.
August 16th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 14th, 2024
Advance Traffic Management in Canary Using Istio, Argo Rollouts, and HPA
Learn how to set up Istio, Argo Rollouts, and HPA to attain advanced traffic management and autonomous scaling of pods in canary deployment.
August 14th, 2024 — Source
Announcing the final agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We'll talk to some of the brightest minds and leaders in the industry — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS companies, leaders from the infrastructure companies that power the industry and the venture capitalists who fund them.
August 14th, 2024 — Source
Enhance Your Communication Strategy: Deliver Multimedia Messages With AWS Pinpoint
Incorporate AWS Pinpoint in communication microservice to send multimedia messages with attachments like images and PDFs.
August 14th, 2024 — Source
Multi-cloud, multi-challenge -- what's the answer?
With more business applications and data existing outside of the traditional network perimeter and across multiple clouds, organizations have a harder job than ever before to maintain security and reliability of critical services. This challenge is shared by the majority of IT leaders -- as 81 percent (PDF) recently surveyed believe the increasing number of cloud applications is adding additional pressure on network performance.
August 14th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 8th, 2024
Best online backup 2024: iDrive, Backblaze, Livedrive, and more
We'll help you choose the best online backup service.
August 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 6th, 2024
How Quality Champions Foster Sustainable Software Quality Improvement at Swiss Post
Even skilled and motivated agile teams sometimes fail to achieve their software quality goals. In this article, we present a simple yet effective practice we use to assist agile teams in reaching their quality goals and share our experience.
August 6th, 2024 — Source
How To Become a Software Engineer Without a CS Degree: Essential Strategies for Success
Learn how to become a successful software engineer without a CS degree. In this post, discover essential strategies.
August 6th, 2024 — Source
SentinelOne unveils AI and cloud innovations on Singularity Platform
SentinelOne unveiled a series of new Purple AI, Cloud, Endpoint and Identity innovations to the company's Singularity Platform. The new offerings and capabilities all leverage the industry's most advanced generative AI technology, modern secure-by-design single-agent architecture, and most performant data lake to protect organizations against attacks across any surface, from endpoint and identity to the cloud.
August 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 3rd, 2024
Compound Interest in Software
Is it possible to calculate the impact of delivering constant improvements to a software solution against the cost of accrued debt assumed as a result?
August 3rd, 2024 — Source
The savings metric every FinOps team needs to know: effective savings rate
Rate optimization is a cloud saving approach that involves paying the lowest rate possible for a given unit (hour, GB, etc.) of cloud usage via strategic use of commitment-based discounts, such as AWS Savings Plans/Reserved Instances and Google Cloud Platform Committed Use Discounts.
August 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — August 2nd, 2024
AWS Discontinues Various Services, Raising Concerns in the Community
For the first time in its history, AWS has discontinued several managed services within a matter of days. Among the affected services are the source control AWS CodeCommit, the cloud-based IDE AWS Cloud9, and the time-series forecasting service Amazon Forecast. The wave of deprecations has led to concerns within the community due to the lack of clear communication.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source
Cloud infrastructure revenue approached $80 billion this quarter
With AI propelling the market forward
August 2nd, 2024 — Source
Criticality in Data Stream Processing and a Few Effective Approaches
Opposite to traditional batch data processing technique, here processing works on the data as it is produced in real-time. Learn more in this post.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source
Delta CEO says Microsoft is "probably the most fragile platform" after it lost "half a billion dollars in five days" during the CrowdStrike outage
Ed Bastian has "tremendous respect for Microsoft and (CEO) Satya," but the lack of fortification might force Delta Air Lines to look elsewhere.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source
How to Sell Software with Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Amid rising cloud costs, tech companies are evaluating how to sell software in new ways that drive adoption and boost profitability, which has led to a surge in pay-as-you-go pricing strategies.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 31st, 2024
How the Adidas Platform Team Reduced the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
In a recent Medium post, platform engineer Iya Lang, disclosed how adidas reduced the costs of running Kubernetes clusters in AWS by up to 50%.
July 31st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 28th, 2024
Not just you: iCloud Private Relay having an 'issue' [Now fixed!]
Late Saturday, more than two days after the iCloud Private Relay problem first cropped up, Apple fixed it.
July 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 26th, 2024
Simplifying Ceph: Deploying OSNexus QuantaStor Community Edition in Your Homelab
OSNexus has rolled out a new community edition of their QuantaStor software for non-commercial, educational, and testing use. This is great news since homelabbers can run this software at home, or admins can give the product a trial run before deploying QuantaStor without jumping through hoops.
July 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 24th, 2024
Google Cloud Introduces Geo-Partitioning for Spanner: Reduced Latency and Cost Optimization
Google Cloud has announced adding geo-partitioning to Spanner, its fully-managed, globally distributed database. According to the company, this new feature aims to improve performance and user experience for geographically dispersed applications and users while optimizing operational costs.
July 24th, 2024 — Source
Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals' costs
Redmond comes out swinging as it files response to Competition and Markets Authority
July 24th, 2024 — Source
Migrating to the cloud: The key to business scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness
Whenever a new technology hits the business mainstream, key decision makers try to figure out how it can be incorporated into their existing workflows. This is driven by the need to stay on the cutting edge and not lose out to competitors, as well as the goal of constantly improving efficiency and cutting costs.
July 24th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 22nd, 2024
False stereotypes mean endangered animals are being protected in the wrong places, say researchers
Giant pandas reclining in cloudy hills eating bamboo, European bison picking their way through gloomy and lichen-draped forests and Cape mountain zebra roaming arid mountains. Ideas of how and where these species live are fixed in the public imagination, in conservation practice and even in the names of some species—but they may simply be stereotypes.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source
Meet the Shared Responsibility Model with New CIS Resources
You can't fulfill your end of the shared responsibility model if you don't emphasize secure configurations. Depending on the cloud services you're using, you're responsible for configuring different things. Once you figure out those responsibilities, you then need to perform the hardening.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source
Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members
Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint
July 22nd, 2024 — Source
The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down
We tested half a dozen budgeting apps for you to consider now that Intuit has shut down Mint.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 20th, 2024
What is Whitelisting an Application and When to Use It?
Has your antivirus software ever flagged a perfectly safe application as a threat, prompting a WTH moment? It's called a false positive, and it can be pretty frustrating not only because you know the file is good, but now you can't get the program to run or download due to the flag.
July 20th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 19th, 2024
Flights, Banking, And More Brought To Standstill In Global Outage: Here's What Went Wrong
On July 19, a large-scale series of interruptions and outages struck Windows OS-based computer systems all over the world. Multiple major airlines, including Delta, United, and American Airlines were forced to ground flights when their computers suffered complete blue screen lockups. Similar hitches were experienced by several major banking institutions, hospital booking systems, television networks, and more.
July 19th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 9th, 2024
Enhancing Security With ZTNA in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments
This article takes a look at the modern networking concept of ZTNA and how security is its core focus with cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
July 9th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 5th, 2024
Cloudflare goes to war with Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI's bots, with blanket free tools to block all crawlers
Declare AIdependence, says Cloudflare, as it provides tools to prevent generative AI systems from stealing info.
July 5th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 4th, 2024
Setting up Device Cloud: A Beginner's Guide
This guide explains how to set up a device cloud, covering platform selection, device connection, network configuration, and data security.
July 4th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — July 2nd, 2024
Operational Excellence Best Practices
The article explores efforts to stabilize a critical service by enhancing observability and implementing service protection.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source
Serverless cloud technology fades away
Serverless was a big deal for a hot minute, but now it seems old-fashioned, even though its basic elements, agility and scalability, are still relevant.Serverless was a big deal for a hot minute, but now it seems old-fashioned, even though its basic elements, agility and scalability, are still relevant.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 29th, 2024
Uber's Journey to Modernizing Big Data Infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform
In a recent post on its official engineering blog, Uber, disclosed its strategy to migrate the batch data analytics and machine learning (ML) training stack to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Uber, runs one of the largest Hadoop installations in the world, managing over an exabyte of data across tens of thousands of servers in each of its two regions. The open-source data ecosystem, particularly Hadoop, has been the cornerstone of the data platform.
June 29th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 28th, 2024
AWS CDK: Infrastructure as Abstract Data Types
Begin a series examining CDK as a high-level object-oriented abstraction, defining cloud infrastructure by leveraging the power of programming languages.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Google Cloud's Vertex AI gets new grounding options
The new grounding features will help enterprises to reduce hallucinations across their generative AI-based apps and agents, the company says.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Introducing Redis Cloud Packages
Redis has released its new product named Redis Cloud Packages, a combination of pre-configured Redis Cloud instances designed to meet specific workloads and use cases, allowing users to skip from manual configurations and removing the hassle of managing Redis instances, making it more accessible and efficient for developers.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Leveraging Microsoft Graph API for Unified Data Access and Insights
This article explores the capabilities of Microsoft Graph API and how it can be utilized to unify data access and gain insights.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Partitioning Hot and Cold Data Tier in Apache Kafka Cluster for Optimal Performance
Discover how by partitioning the hot and cold data tiers in the Apache Kafka Cluster, we can optimize storage resources based on data characteristics.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Pure Storage Accelerates Application Modernization With Robust Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Solutions
Empowering developers and IT teams to modernize applications with seamless Kubernetes integration, advanced data services, and flexible consumption models.
June 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 26th, 2024
Leaders and Innovators in EUC -- Apporto a Virtual Desktop Innovator
When considering virtual desktops, we often think of two major players: VMware Horizon and Citrix. However, these two companies have recently changed their business models, leading many to look for alternatives. Not to worry, there are plenty of other vendors in this space.
June 26th, 2024 — Source
Shadow SaaS -- a persistent problem and how to confront it [Q&A]
There's an abundance of apps and SaaS solutions readily available these days to make the lives of employees easier and perform many work-related tasks. And the list keeps growing, with the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini paving the way for more AI-driven virtual assistants.
June 26th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 21st, 2024
Optimizing Your Cloud Resources, Part 2: Resource Management via IBM Cloud Projects
A collection of configurations used to organize and manage the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments and related resources across multiple accounts.
June 21st, 2024 — Source
When You Need More Power Than a Lambda Provides
While I appreciate the concept of a serverless option, sometimes you simply need more power. Let's explore an alternative that doesn't break your project's budget.
June 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 20th, 2024
Born in the research lab a decade ago, SWAN continues to accelerate networking in the Microsoft Cloud
Software-driven wide area network (SWAN) is a system that enables centralized management and control of network infrastructure to improve reliability and efficiency. SWAN controls the timing and volume of traffic each service sends and automatically reconfigures the network's data plane to match traffic demand.
June 20th, 2024 — Source
Google Provides Extended Support for Cloud SQL MySQL and PostgreSQL End-of-Life Versions
Google Cloud has announced extended support for end-of-life (EOL) Cloud SQL MySQL and PostgreSQL versions, aiming to help users maintain database operations and plan upgrades more efficiently. Starting February 1, 2025, versions such as MySQL 5.6, 5.7 and PostgreSQL 9.6, 10, 11, and 12 will enter an extended support phase, allowing customers to continue using these versions beyond their standard support dates.
June 20th, 2024 — Source
Unleashing the Power of Cloud Storage With JuiceFS
JuiceFS, a cloud-native file system, empowers enterprises with scalable, high-performance storage for data-intensive AI and analytics workloads.
June 20th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 17th, 2024
Sysdig uses automation to cut cloud incident response times
Cloud security company Sysdig is launching a new, enhanced cloud-native investigation process designed to cut incident analysis time to just five minutes.
June 17th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 14th, 2024
Essential Guide To Testing SaaS Products: Tools, Tips, and Techniques
The guide covers methods, tools, and best practices for testing SaaS products to ensure functionality, security, and performance.
June 14th, 2024 — Source
Oxide Computer: Revolutionizing Cloud Computing for the Modern Data Center
Discover how Oxide Computer transforms the data center landscape with their innovative cloud computing solutions designed for the modern enterprise.
June 14th, 2024 — Source
Public and Private Clouds: Key Differences
Cloud services have revolutionized the way organizations and businesses manage their IT infrastructure and resources. In today"s digital landscape, the debate between public and private clouds continues to gain traction as businesses seek the most suitable infrastructure for their needs.
June 14th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 12th, 2024
K8s celebrates KuberTENes: A decade of working together
Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you
June 12th, 2024 — Source
The Impact of Cloudflare's Sudden Service Change at an Online Casino
Recently, an online casino website experienced a severe disruption when Cloudflare abruptly disabled its services. Robin Dev, a systems operations engineer at the casino, provided a detailed account of the sequence of events in a blog post, shedding light on the extent of the disruption and its aftermath.
June 12th, 2024 — Source
UK CMA says public sector will be in cloud services probe after all
Nothing is as juicy as a nice fat tender, amirite tech giants?
June 12th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 10th, 2024
LST-Bench: A new benchmark tool for open table formats in the data lake
As organizations grapple with ever-expanding datasets, the adoption of data lakes has become a vital strategy for scalable and cost-effective data management. The success of these systems largely depends on the file formats used to store the data. Traditional formats, while efficient in data compression and organization, falter with frequent updates.
June 10th, 2024 — Source
The risks and rewards of Active Directory modernization [Q&A]
Active Directory (AD) was introduced in the late 90's when corporate networking barely had virtualization and remote work, not to mention cloud services.
June 10th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 7th, 2024
Deploy a Django Application to the Cloud
In this article, we"ll demonstrate how GitHub Actions and Heroku can be used to quickly deploy a Django application to the cloud.
June 7th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — June 6th, 2024
How a data exchange platform eases data integration
Importing, transforming, and validating data from unmanaged external sources is a messy, complex process. A data exchange platform can help.
June 6th, 2024 — Source
How to track the location history of your Arduino projects
In today's world, asset tracking is increasingly important across multiple fields, such as logistics, conservation, and personal hobbies. Tracking and visualizing the movement of assets in real-time can be highly beneficial. The Arduino Cloud's Advanced Map widget is a powerful tool designed for this purpose, offering enhanced capabilities for tracking and visualizing the location history of your IoT devices.
June 6th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 31st, 2024
Anthropic's Claude just got smarter on several cloud platforms
Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI chatbot Claude has announced Tool Use which allows developers to make Claude more powerful. With Tool Use, Claude can interact with external tools and APIs, the feature is available on all Claude 3 models on the Anthropic Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI.
May 31st, 2024 — Source
Google discloses how they mistakenly erased $135 billion cloud customer account
The whole thing impacted over 600,000 people
May 31st, 2024 — Source
What's your plan for the cloud skills gap?
It's old news that no one in IT can find enough talent to build and run modern IT solutions. AI won't save you, so start looking at other options
May 31st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 30th, 2024
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account
UniSuper's 647,000 users faced two weeks of downtime because of a Google Cloud bug.
May 30th, 2024 — Source
Perplexity's New 'Page' Feature Writes Fully Sourced Reports and Articles for You
English teachers should be worried.
May 30th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 28th, 2024
Kubernetes Gateway API v1.1 Released: New Standard Features and Experimental Enhancements
The Kubernetes SIG Network announced version 1.1 of Gateway API. This update sees several key features moving to the Standard Channel (GA), including support for service mesh and GRPCRoute. Additionally, new experimental features such as session persistence and client certificate verification have been introduced.
May 28th, 2024 — Source
Partitioning an LLM between cloud and edge
Using edge systems to run elements of generative AI could be game-changing. It requires planning and skill, but this hybrid approach may be the future.
May 28th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 21st, 2024
Nutanix starts thinking outside the VM -- with extra help from Dell
Brings its storage stack to AWS's EKS but still has time to improve its hypervisor
May 21st, 2024 — Source
UniSuper's Entire Infrastructure Deleted by Internal Google Cloud Error
An Australian superannuation fund manager, UniSuper, using Google Cloud for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) contract, found it had no disaster recovery (DR) recourse when its entire infrastructure subscription was deleted.
May 21st, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 14th, 2024
Amazon cloud division head unexpectedly steps down
The head of Amazon's AWS cloud computing business, Adam Selipsky, who was helping lead the company's expansion into AI, told workers he was stepping down Tuesday.
May 14th, 2024 — Source
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky steps down; senior exec Matt Garman named AWS CEO
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down from the role, three years after returning to the company to lead the cloud giant, according to an internal memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to employees Tuesday morning.
May 14th, 2024 — Source
How to connect Raspberry Pi GPIOs to the Arduino Cloud
Raspberry Pi enthusiasts wanting to connect their projects to the Arduino Cloud using Python might be interested in a guide specifically created by the official Arduino team. Raspberry Pi GPIO control with Arduino Cloud is a crucial aspect of many Internet of Things (IoT) projects.
May 14th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 13th, 2024
Arduino Cloud now offers white label workspaces
If your business is building Internet of Things (IoT) or Arduino projects for other businesses or third parties, or even internal workflows. You might be interested to know that Arduino has this week announced a new white label feature called "Custom Branding."
May 13th, 2024 — Source
Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and GenAI products to Indian businesses
Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, said on Monday that it has entered into a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and generative AI products to Indian businesses.
May 13th, 2024 — Source
Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters
Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard traces the open-source project's journey to help developers visualize what's going on inside distributed cloud-native infrastructure.
May 13th, 2024 — Source
Kyndryl acquires Seattle-based cloud migration company Skytap
New York-based IT infrastructure services giant Kyndryl announced Monday that it acquired Skytap, a Seattle-based company founded 17 years ago that sells cloud migration software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
May 13th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 10th, 2024
Cloud Computing Is Evolving - With a Little Help From AI
Sarbjeet Johal of StackPayne on How Generative AI Is Improving Cloud Operations
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Software — General Information — May 8th, 2024
The next era of information management [Q&A]
With the emergence of generative AI technology, information management is undergoing rapid transformation.
May 8th, 2024 — Source
What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained
Here's what you need to know about Istio, Google's open source service mesh platform for managing data sharing between microservices in a network.
May 8th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 7th, 2024
Amazon says will invest $9 billion in Singapore
Amazon said Tuesday it would invest US$9 billion in Singapore over the next four years to expand its cloud computing capabilities in the city.
May 7th, 2024 — Source
Computer scientists discover vulnerability in cloud server hardware used by AMD and Intel chips
Public cloud services employ special security technologies. Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have now discovered a gap in the latest security mechanisms used by AMD and Intel chips. This affects major cloud providers.
May 7th, 2024 — Source
VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins
Customers brace for bumpy ride
May 7th, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 3rd, 2024
'Architecture by conference' is a really bad idea
Using the generic architecture you saw at a conference for your company's unique business needs is a surefire way to waste money and time.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source
Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21%
Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022
May 3rd, 2024 — Source
Software — General Information — May 1st, 2024
Amazon reports strong 1Q results driven by its cloud-computing unit and Prime Video ad dollars
Amazon on Tuesday reported strong results for the first quarter, driven by growth in its cloud-computing unit and new advertising dollars from its Prime Video streaming service.
May 1st, 2024 — Source
API Access with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Cognito
AWS recently announced that Amazon API Gateway requests can now be authorized with Amazon Verified Permissions. With this feature, HTTP requests containing tokens issued by Amazon Cognito can be used to perform authorization decisions against API resources.
May 1st, 2024 — Source
The best apps and services for new graduates
All the tools a grad needs to commute, get work done and have fun.
May 1st, 2024 — Source
VMware by Broadcom blinks again -- this time easing change for cloud service providers
As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS
May 1st, 2024 — Source
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