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GCP – Four steps to jumpstarting your SRE practice
A few months ago, we wrote about how the first step to implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in an organization is getting leadership on board. So, let’s assume that you’ve gone ahead and done that. Now what? What are some concrete steps you can take to get the SRE ball rolling? In this blog post, […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Experiments
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), is now integrated with SageMaker Experiments, a capability that lets customers organize, track, compare, and evaluate their ML experiments. Customers can now compare metrics such as model training accuracy across multiple executions of their SageMaker Pipelines just as […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.7.1
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.7.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.7.1 includes several bug fixes. For a complete list of fixes, see the Apache Kafka release notes for 2.7.1. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure IoT Verified telemetry is now in public preview
Azure IoT Verified Telemetry provides data reliability and is available as part of Dependable IoT SDK and can be seamlessly integrated into current Azure IoT offerings such as Azure RTOS and IoT PnP. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Confidential Ledger
Create a managed service built on top of the Confidential Consortium Framework that spins up a permissioned blockchain network of nodes within Azure confidential computing. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management
Azure API Management announces native support for WebSocket APIs. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Virtual Machines
IBM WebSphere Application Server (Traditional) Network Deployment on Azure Linux Virtual Machines is now available, jointly developed and supported by IBM and Microsoft. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Run Enterprise Java with Red Hat JBoss EAP for Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Marketplace offers to run JBoss EAP on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets are now available. Customers can quickly move existing Java EE/Jakarta EE workloads to the cloud with limited code changes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB in private preview
You now have the ability to perform path-level updates on specific fields/properties in a document with partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL Database ledger available in public preview
Use Azure SQL Database ledger (preview) to eliminate the additional cost, complexity, and performance overhead of decentralized blockchain technology and enable tamper-evidence through cryptographic verification of your centralized data store. Read More for the details.