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RIP AWS Go Lambda Runtime
AWS is managing this update terribly.
https://www.wolfe.id.au/2023/08/09/rip-aws-go-lambda-runtime/
HashiCorp Updates Licensing FAQ
I received from a HashiCorp employee a link to an FAQ page clarifying the implication of the new BSL license adopted by HashiCorp. From that page, I read: ‘A “competitive offering” is a product that is sold to third parties, including through paid support arrangements, that significantly overlaps the capabilities of a HashiCorp commercial product. For example, this definition would include hosting or embedding Terraform as part of a solution that is sold competitively against our commercial versions of Terraform‘, which makes sense. But to ensure you are not breaching their license, they have an email address so you can ask specific questions. If you have an alternative product to Terraform Cloud, you are in trouble.
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-updates-licensing-faq-based-on-community-questions
Cloud Native Summit - NZ & Australia
A community conference focused on Cloud Transformation. In-Person Main Conference: September 5th, 2023. Workshops & Pre-Conference Talks: September 4th, 2023.
https://www.cloudnativesummit.co/
How to learn from incidents and propel your engineering career?
Good advice to junior engineers for their careers.
A Quick Intro to Winglang
A language to write cloud applications, code and infrastructure.
How to Test Website Speed: A Step-by-Step Tutorial on Measuring Page Load Times the Right Way
Testing the performance of a website can be trickier than you think.
https://sematext.com/blog/measure-website-speed/
Use ChatGPT to Boost Security Operations Center Productivity
By capturing conversations, fetching relevant data from infrastructure and observing its activity, we can glean more insight than ever before.
https://thenewstack.io/use-chatgpt-to-boost-security-operations-center-productivity/
Kubernetes 1.28: A New (alpha) Mechanism For Safer Cluster Upgrades
The Kubernetes 1.28 release introduces an alpha feature called "Mixed Version Proxy," aimed at ensuring safer and more consistent cluster upgrades. The feature allows a kube-apiserver to reroute resource requests to the correct peer API server during upgrades, thus preventing erroneous 404 errors and other potential issues.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/28/kubernetes-1-28-feature-mixed-version-proxy-alpha/
Kubernetes v1.28: Introducing native sidecar containers
This should reduce some friction when creating sidecar containers.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/25/native-sidecar-containers/
Kubernetes 1.28: Beta support for using swap on Linux
They also explain why swap was not supported.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/08/24/swap-linux-beta/
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next
At this year's Cloud Next event, Google announced major updates focused on AI, including the release of its Cloud TPU v5e, which claims to offer doubled training and 2.5 times the inference performance per dollar compared to its predecessor. Alongside hardware advancements, Google also introduced new software features and virtual machine configurations, including a Multislice feature for scalability and A3 virtual machines with Nvidia H100 GPUs, aimed at supporting demanding AI workloads.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/google_next_ai_updates/
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
Replacing a sort algorithm in the FreeBSD kernel has significantly improved its boot speed, reducing the kernel loading time to 25 milliseconds; this enhancement is especially beneficial for micro-VMs, which are designed to run as lightweight guests under host hypervisors, but the gains are expected to benefit broader applications as well.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/29/freebsd_boots_in_25ms/
Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Rust-Changes
New – Amazon EC2 Hpc7a Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors Optimized for High Performance Computing
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