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Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
I am very interested in trying ECS with the new Graviton2 processors. It delivers up to 40% improved price/performance at a 20% lower cost.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-fargate-amazon-ecs-aws-graviton2-processors/
AWS Launches the Second Region in India with a $4.4 Billion commitment
The $4.4 billion investment for the Hyderabad region is about 60% higher than the initial commitment of $2.8 billion announced by AWS for the region in 2020.
cio.com/article/412923/aws-launches-second-region-in-india-with-a-4-4-billion-commitment.html
Contabo has a Data Center in the UK
It's not recent news but this is a good affordable alternative to run servers in the UK.
https://contabo.com/en/locations/united-kingdom/
Expanding the Boundaries of PostgreSQL: Announcing a Bottomless, Consumption-Based Object Storage Layer Built on Amazon S3
Timescale cloud has a new object layer backed by S3.
Serverless architecture for analyzing PostgreSQL logs with pgBadger
This solution is based on pgBadger to find bottlenecks in PostgreSQL.
antares
A new SQL client based on Electron.js and Vue.js, supporting MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Firebird SQL. It is working with major operating systems, including the ARM versions.
https://github.com/antares-sql/antares
SUSE Solutions to Simplify Management at the Distributed Enterprise Edge Available on HPE GreenLake
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Solutions-to-Simplify-Management-on-HPE-GreenLake/
HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
Modern cloud experience for VMs, containers, and bare metal in your private environment. Says the slogan. It is an option to run cloud-like services but on-premises.
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/greenlake/private-cloud-enterprise.html
Introducing Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development
Finch is a Docker Desktop replacement for macOS at the moment. It uses an vm to run the containers.
colima
A container runtime for macOS with minimal setup and it lets you choose between Docker, Containerd, and Kubernetes as the backend.
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPi for over a year
https://tomforb.es/infosys-leaked-fulladminaccess-aws-keys-on-pypi-for-over-a-year/
Ansible 7.0.0 has been released!
Ansible 7 requires Python 3.9 on the controller, the same as ansible-core 2.14.
Variables are now evaluated lazily; only when they are actually used. For example, in ansible-core 2.14 an expression ``{{ defined_variable or undefined_variable }}`` does not fail on ``undefined_variable`` if the first part of ``or`` is evaluated to ``True`` as it is not needed to evaluate the second part.
Collections added to Ansible 7:
* ibm.spectrum_virtualize (version 1.9.0)
* inspur.ispim (version 1.0.1)
* purestorage.fusion (version 1.1.1)
* vultr.cloud (version 1.1.0)
https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/ATu1rGVAz_E
AWX Operator version 1.1.0
https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases/tag/1.1.0
Ansible RouterOS v2.4.0
This is the changelog.
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.routeros/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst#v2-4-0
Ansible Podman v1.10.0
The changelog.
https://github.com/containers/ansible-podman-collections/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst#v1-10-0
Config Management Camp 2023
CfgMgmtCamp will take place on 6-8 February 2023 in Ghent, Belgium. The call for papers is open.
https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/
Linux getrandom vDSO Implementation Updated, Glibc Patch In Testing
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-getrandom-vDSO-v7
Visage Announces Support of Amazon HealthLake Imaging
Visage is working with AWS to streamline and further accelerate access to imaging data with Amazon HealthLake Imaging.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visage-announces-support-amazon-healthlake-140000979.html
Developing Applications in Space with Azure Orbital Space SDK
Microsoft recently announced the preview release of the Azure Orbital Space SDK to provide developers with a secure hosting platform and application toolkit designed to enable them to create, deploy, and operate applications on-orbit.
Async fn in Trait MVP Comes to Nightly
async fn can be used in traits.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/11/17/async-fn-in-trait-nightly.html
Category Theory with Rust (pt1)
https://www.kurtlawrence.info/blog/category-theory-with-rust-pt1
Rust, Lambda, and DynamoDB
Implementation of an AWS Lambda function in Rust, that writes to DynamoDB. All deployed through Terraform.
https://betterprogramming.pub/rust-lambda-and-dynamodb-bea841d47cca
Rust 🤝 WebAssembly with Alex Crichton
Getting Started with Rust: Understanding Rust Compile Errors
Data Contracts for SaaS Developers with Benn Stancil
Learn about data contracts.
Data Systems Tend Towards Production
A write-up of what happened in the data industry and the future.
https://ian-macomber.medium.com/data-systems-tend-towards-production-be5a86f65561
Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase
Moving a CPU-intense server to a larger one should improve performance. Vadim Filanovsky and Harshad Sane from Netflix write about performance analysis, what and how to look into it.
Elon Musk Eliminated Remote Work Because Working From Home "Doesn't Work"
Not an article about infrastructure, but I find that it is important to know what is going on in the world of remote working and the companies and the ideas against it.
Reflections on Trusting VEX (or when humans can improve SBOMs)
Read about what VEX and SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are.
https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/reflections-on-trusting-vex-or-when-humans-can-improve-sboms
Getting started with OpenTelemetry for Python
A four-part series on getting started with OpenTelemetry and Python, with an initial recap of the 3 pillars of observability.
https://dev.to/ashokan/getting-started-with-opentelemetry-for-python-4882
Wazuh
Wazuh is a free and open-source platform for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments.
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh
Container Tools, Tips, and Tricks - Issue #2
Ivan Velichko talks about the tools for debugging running containers.
https://iximiuz.ck.page/posts/container-tools-tips-and-tricks-issue-2
GopherCon 2022: Katie Hockman - Fuzz Testing Made Easy
Building a custom code search index in Go for searchcode.com
https://boyter.org/posts/how-i-built-my-own-index-for-searchcode/
Paxos, Raft, EPaxos: How Has Distributed Consensus Technology Evolved?
Another page teaching about distributed consensus but it has an into on multi-paxos and EPaxos.
Scaling Mastodon is Impossible
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/
re:Quinnvent 2022 - Day 1
A funny youtube video of re:Invent 2022
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