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Kora: A cloud-native redesign of the Apache Kafka engine
Five key innovations that increased the performance, availability, and cost-efficiency of the engine at the heart of Confluent’s managed Apache Kafka service.
Need GPUs? Take a look at microclouds
There’s definitely more uncertainty in going with a microcloud provider, but choosing a smaller company for your GPU services may pay off big in the end.
Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters
Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard traces the open-source project’s journey to help developers visualize what’s going on inside distributed cloud-native infrastructure.
Red Hat extends Lightspeed AI to Linux, OpenShift
Lightspeed will apply generative AI toward automating the operation of OpenShift clusters and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
Cloud environments beyond the Big Three
The idea of decentralizing cloud computing has been overshadowed by AI, but frustration with high cloud prices has boosted interest in other options.
Protecting LLM applications with Azure AI Content Safety
New tools for filtering malicious prompts, detecting ungrounded outputs, and evaluating the safety of models will make generative AI safer to use.
Red Hat’s Podman AI Lab supports developer adoption of genAI
The Podman Desktop extension features sample apps and a developer playground for exploring LLM use cases.
What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained
Here's what you need to know about Istio, Google's open source service mesh platform for managing data sharing between microservices in a network.
Does cloud security have a bad reputation?
It seems to be fair game now to label cloud security as risky even though your data is likely safer there than on premises.
'Architecture by conference' is a really bad idea
Using the generic architecture you saw at a conference for your company's unique business needs is a surefire way to waste money and time.
Understanding Microsoft’s Trusted Signing service
A new managed signing service on Azure offers low-cost, low-touch code signing with integration into GitHub Actions.
How cloud cost visibility impacts business and employment
New data reveals some interesting information about cloud cost management and the fear of being fired. Should we rethink our approaches?
DBOS: A better way to build applications?
An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool.
The temptation of AI as a service
Enterprises may find it faster and easier to deploy their AI models in a public cloud that runs them as a service. AWS is jumping on this trend.
Using Inspektor Gadget for Kubernetes observability
An open-source collection of low-level tools helps you troubleshoot cloud-native applications by delivering key data from the heart of the Linux kernel.
Do you need to repatriate from the cloud?
Repatriation is one route to cost savings. Switching development patterns from long-running services to WebAssembly-powered serverless functions is another.
Snowflake’s open-source Arctic LLM to take on Llama 3, Grok, Mistral, and DBRX
Arctic will be available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be accessed via Snowflake Cortex for serverless inference or across providers such as AWS, Azure, Nvidia, Perplexity, and Together AI.
AWS moves Amazon Bedrock’s AI guardrails, and other features to general availability
The updates include new large language models and a capability to import custom models, which is currently in preview.