This article is a preview of a talk by Greg Arnette for SLOconf 2023 on May 15 – 18. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. Tax season was just a few weeks ago, and that got me thinking about how frustrating it is to get hit with […]
0 CommentsWeb APIs continue to grow in interest among developer users. APIs can empower new customer experiences and help engineers avoid rebuilding common functions. The technology is also powering microservices and headless architectures that we’ve seen gain more traction in recent years as enterprises become more composable. On the provider side, a web API strategy can […]
0 CommentsSpotify this week added additional plugins for its open source Backstage platform that is used to build developer portals. The new plugins make it simpler to address role-based access and access Insights, a tool from Spotify that tracks Backstage usage trends. In addition, Spotify is also enhancing a Soundcheck plugin for Backstage that is used […]
0 CommentsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability. The post Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com
0 CommentsAt the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove an IT environment is secure, available as an open source project. In addition, AWS launched SnapChange, an open source fuzz testing tool that […]
0 CommentsThe world we know today depends in fundamental ways on open source software. As providers of this software, package managers serve their respective ecosystems from their centralized, opaque hubs in ways that are sometimes difficult to reconcile with the open source nature of the software they’re serving. I want to talk about the extent to […]
0 Comments(Actually, the right job for the tool.) We are currently in a really weird space with regard to AI capability. For my AI friends, I will make the disclaimer that what we call AI today is not actually AI, it is more akin to LiSP “AI” than actual intelligence (and, in reality, is firmly somewhere […]
0 CommentsToday we are launching I4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that deliver up to 15% better compute performance than our other storage-optimized instances. With up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory, and 15 TB of NVMe storage, one of the six instance sizes is bound to be a great fit for your storage-intensive […]
0 CommentsA survey of 507 IT decision-makers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom published today found 75% of respondents said a secret leaked from at least one application, with 60% noting that the leak caused issues for either the company, employees or both. Conducted by Sapio Research on behalf of GitGuardian, a provider of a […]
0 CommentsGrafana Labs today made available an ability to customize what observability data is collected via its managed cloud service. This capability can help reduce storage costs in addition to enhancing the dashboard Grafana provides to make it simpler to track metrics usage. Wayne Jin, vice president of product marketing for Grafana Labs, said both capabilities […]
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