Issue #57
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Welcome Debian riscv64
Debian riscv64 is now an official architecture!
https://blog.aurel32.net/welcome-debian-riscv64.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html
Why do cloud titans keep building data centers in America's hottest city?
The register is asking a good question since Phoenix is hot and dry which is the opposite of what a DC needs.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/15/cloud_datacenters_desert_arizona/
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/17/enra_azure_ad_opinion_column/
Introducing Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images
Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology open-sourced by AWS that enables containers to launch faster by lazily loading the container image.
https://github.com/awslabs/soci-snapshotter
Build your own FaaS: Self-host Cloudflare workers and javascript functions on Fly and everywhere
https://www.breakp.dev/blog/build-your-own-faas/
Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes
An old article (2021) from OpenAI but still very interesting.
https://openai.com/research/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes
Akuity Launches an AI Assistant for Argo CD to Help Troubleshoot Common Kubernetes Deployment Issues
eCHO episode 2: Introduction to Hubble
A handy network and security observability tool for k8s based on eBPF and Cilium.
https://www.youtube.com/live/hD2iJUyIXQw
Kubernetes - Getting Started With Rook
A video from the Linux Foundation, is not new but it is a good tutorial to set up a test Ceph cluster as block storage for Kubernetes.
Kubernetes Certification Exam Environment Preview
In this video, you can see what the exam environment looks like.
Accelerate your CloudFormation authoring experience with looping function
After so many years, they managed to add loops, well done AWS!
New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights
AWS starts charging for IPv4 addresses!
Amazon Simple Email Service adds email delivery features to revised free tier
Incredible, I thought they already had a free tier. This is a reminder not to take anything for granted.
Service Quota Observability Across Regions and Accounts
There are many differences in service quotas between regions, now AWS is providing a CLI script to check these differences, but how useful is it if you are using Terraform? Not much.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/service-quota-observability-across-regions-and-accounts
Using the Fault Tolerance Analyser Tool to Identify Potential Issues
A tool to generate a list of potential fault tolerance issues across different services. This goes to complement AWS Trusted Advisor because they are not the same thing.
pgcat
A pooler and a proxy written in Rust for PostgreSQL.
https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat
libpqxx 7.8.0: massive feature release
Lots of goodies.
https://github.com/jtv/libpqxx/releases/tag/7.8.0
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