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The future of cloud development
In this post, Jeremy Daly talks about Ampt, a spin-off of Serverless Inc. Ampt is an automatic tool to provision and manage cloud infrastructure by inferring requirements from the application's code.
https://getampt.com/blog/introducing-ampt/
The cloud isn’t the issue, you’re just using it wrong
This is a post with a quite different opinion from DHH: if you are running VMs and Kubernetes probably you are doing it wrong.
https://www.jeremydaly.com/the-cloud-isnt-the-issue-youre-just-using-it-wrong/
Introducing PlanetScale Boost
It is a new product claiming that it can increase 1000x MySQL queries.
https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-boost
How we accidentally burned $40,000 by calling recursive patterns
A serverless story went bad.
aws-sdk-ruby-record
After many years, Ruby's community seems to be still fond of ORMs, now there is a new one for Dynamo, from AWS.
https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby-record
Welcome to the Supercloud (and Developer Week 2022)
Sci-fi or reality? :-) Isn't the Supercloud Serverless?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-the-supercloud-and-developer-week-2022/
Solana Goes Forth with extrnode’s Open-Source Load Balancer
A new type of load balancer for public nodes. This should make Solana's network more robust to censorship.
https://hackernoon.com/solana-goes-forth-with-extrnodes-open-source-load-balancer
Is Solana Decentralized? Cloud Provider Hetzner Ban Raises Questions
I loved Hetzner but this censorship is making me really angry. I understand that Bitcoin mining creates problems for colo but Hetzner is also against proof of stake which puts Hetzner against crypto on an ideological level, which is very bad for a hoster who is discriminating against people and companies. I would keep my servers in a place where I can do whatever legal activity I want.
https://decrypt.co/113429/is-solana-decentralized-cloud-provider-hetzner-ban-raises-questions
Sysdig 2022 Threat Report: Cloud-native threats are increasing and maturing
Cloud threats are increasing and getting more sophisticated, but it is enough to use some common vulnerabilities. There is an example where a company had to pay 410000 dollars because a hacker used cloud resources for mining $8100 cryptocurrency.
https://sysdig.com/blog/2022-sysdig-cloud-native-threat-report/
Carefully exploring Rust as a Python developer
Trying out the Rust programming ecosystem as a 10+ years Python developer. How to do everyday programming tasks and what the tooling looks like.
https://karimjedda.com/carefully-exploring-rust/
Signs of Triviality
A post on the infrastructure of the Internet, with a view at the diversity of authoritative NS records in gTLDs.
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/nsauth-diversity.html
This many ways to access RDS
A post on the different ways to access RDS and how it evolved over the years.
https://blog.symops.com/2022/11/17/rds-access/
A PostgreSQL Backup Journey
Chris talks about his journey in backing up PostgreSQL.
https://nexteam.co.uk/post/blog/a-postgresql-backup-journey
ICYMI: Serverless pre:Invent 2022
A recap of the most important releases from the AWS Serverless team.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/icymi-serverless-preinvent-2022/
Building event-driven architectures with IoT sensor data
A post from AWS Blog on a solution with event-driven IoT data ingestion architecture. It seems using all the good practices of AWS architecture but all that infrastructure is really needed. What about the cost of it? Probably eye-watering.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/building-event-driven-architectures-with-iot-sensor-data/
Easy and accurate forecasting with AutoGluon-TimeSeries
How to make time-series predictions with AutoGluon with few lines of code.
https://auto.gluon.ai/stable/index.html
Kubernetes Removals, Deprecations, and Major Changes in 1.26
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/11/18/upcoming-changes-in-kubernetes-1-26/
New Leap Micro Version Now Available
https://news.opensuse.org/2022/11/17/new-leapmicro-version-now-available/
https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/5.3/
How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/21/production-engineering/precision-time-protocol-at-meta/
Granted - The Best Way to Log Into AWS Accounts
View multiple AWS regions and accounts at the same time using Granted.
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