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Amazon CloudFront Introduces Support for VPC Origins and Static IPs

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:22:00 GMT

Ahead of re:Invent, AWS has announced that Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast static IPs, providing a dedicated set of IP addresses for connecting to all CloudFront edge locations worldwide. Additionally, the new VPC origins feature enables developers to designate private resources within a VPC as origins, eliminating the need for public IP addresses or internet connectivity.

By Renato Losio

Inside Netflix’s Distributed Counter: Scalable, Accurate, and Real-Time Counting at Global Scale

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:30:00 GMT

Netflix engineers recently published a deep dive into their Distributed Counter Abstraction, a scalable service designed to track user interactions, feature usage, and business performance metrics with low latency. The system balances performance, accuracy, and cost through configurable counting modes, resilient data aggregation, and a globally distributed architecture.

By Eran Stiller

Amazon S3 Introduces Metadata Feature for Improved Data Management and Querying in Preview

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:00:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched S3 Metadata, enhancing data management for S3 users. This new capability enables near real-time querying and analysis of S3 data via organized metadata updates. By adopting Apache Iceberg, it ensures interoperability and scalability, allowing businesses to efficiently leverage their data for analytics and AI applications.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

QCon SF 2024: Refactoring Large, Stubborn Codebases

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:00:00 GMT

Jake Zimmerman, technical lead of Sorbet at Stripe, and Getty Ritter, Ruby infrastructure engineer at Stripe, presented Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases at the 2024 QCon San Francisco conference. Zimmerman and Ritter demonstrated how to fix complaints on maintaining a large codebase with leverage and by ratcheting incremental progress.

By Michael Redlich

From Aurora DSQL to Amazon Nova: Highlights of re:Invent 2024

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 06:02:00 GMT

The 2024 edition of re:Invent has just ended in Las Vegas. As anticipated, AI was a key focus of the conference, with Amazon Nova and a new version of Sagemaker among the most significant highlights. However, the announcement that generated the most excitement in the community was the preview of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability.

By Renato Losio

Java News Roundup: JDK 24 in Rampdown, JDK 25 Expert Group, Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile, Spring Cloud

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:30:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for December 2nd, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 24 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 25 Expert Group; the release of Jakarta EE 11 Core Profile and Spring Cloud 2024.0.0; and point releases for GlassFish, Open Liberty, Quarkus and Apache Camel.

By Michael Redlich

AWS Transfer Family Web Apps: Simplified S3 Data Access through the Browser

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 10:00:00 GMT

AWS Transfer Family's new web apps offer a user-friendly, no-code solution for secure access to Amazon S3 data. Designed for non-technical users, these fully managed portals simplify file management and enhance security with AWS IAM integration. Easily customizable and compliant with major standards, they streamline workflows and bridge gaps in traditional file transfer methods.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Cloudflare Experiences Major Incident in November, Resulting in Log Loss

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:33:00 GMT

Cloudflare has recently confirmed that on November 14th they experienced an incident affecting Cloudflare Logs with 55% of logs during a 3.5-hour period being lost. The incident impacted most customers using the service, with a misconfiguration triggering a cascading series of system failures and exposing weaknesses in handling unexpected spikes in demand.

By Renato Losio

Amazon Introduces Elastic VMware Service for VMware Workload Migration to AWS in Preview

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:00:00 GMT

AWS has unveiled the Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS), enabling seamless VMware Cloud Foundation integration within Amazon VPC. This innovative service simplifies VMware workload migration and management in the cloud, allowing swift deployment and optimized infrastructure while offering customers flexibility and control over their applications.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers