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GCP – Follow the pink pony: A story of CSRF, managed services, and unicorns
With the release of Django 4.0, there was a minor change to how Django handles CSRF protections: the Origin header is now checked, if present. Specifically, the URL scheme is now checked. Now, this seems like an innocuous change, something that shouldn’t affect many users. However, this change would break Django 4.0 deployments to Cloud […]
AWS – Announcing the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript 3.0 and React Components 3.0
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. The Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript 3.0 and React Components 3.0 provides developers of web and Electron applications with a simplified developer experience for faster implementation and consistency across popular browsers and Chromium runtimes. Read More […]
Azure – Public preview: Metrics and alerts support in Azure Container Apps
You can now view metrics for your Azure Container Apps and setup alerts for metric thresholds and Log Analytic queries. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP introduces a single Availability Zone deployment option
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports Single Availability Zone (AZ) deployments. Single-AZ file systems are designed for use cases that do not require the data resiliency model of a Multi-AZ file system, such as running development and test workloads, or storing secondary copies of data that is already stored on premises or in other […]
AWS – AWS Fargate now delivers faster scaling of applications
AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), now enables customers to scale applications faster, improving performance and reducing wait time. We have made several improvements over the last year that enable you to scale applications up to 16X faster, making it easier to build […]
AWS – AWS DataSync can now copy data to and from Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
AWS DataSync now supports transferring files to and from Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, a fully managed service that offers highly reliable, scalable, performant, and feature-rich file storage built on the open-source OpenZFS file system. Using DataSync, you can easily and securely migrate your on-premises file or object storage to FSx for OpenZFS or perform ongoing […]
GCP – Some beans and gems, some snakes and elephants, with Java 17, Ruby 3, Python 3.10 and PHP 8.1 in App Engine and Cloud Functions
Time to spill the beans and show the gems, to our friendly snakes and elephants: we’ve got some great news for Java, Ruby, Python and PHP serverless developers today. Google App Engine and Cloud Functions are adding new modern runtimes, allowing you to update to the major version release trains of those programming languages. In […]
Azure – In development: Azure Media Services low-latency live streaming
Azure Media Services is announcing the preview of low latency HLS with glass-to-glass latency as low as 3 seconds with support for automatic transcriptions and DRM. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Health probes support in Azure Container Apps
You can now use readiness, liveness, and startup probes in your Azure Container Apps. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Static Web Apps support for private endpoints
Azure Static Web Apps support for private endpoints is now generally available with a 99.95 SLA for production and staging environments. Read More for the details.