Explore how LocalStack serves as a drop-in replacement for AWS, allowing developers to test and develop AWS services locally.
AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts. Valkey is the successor fork of Redis spearheaded by AWS and others, offering the same features and APIs but at a lower price.
Alibaba Cloud has developed a new tool called TAAT that analyzes log file timestamps to improve server fault prediction and detection. The tool, which combines machine learning with timestamp analysis, saw a 10% improvement in fault prediction accuracy.
Backprop provides powerful and affordable GPU instances for AI development, with pre-built environments, pay-as-you-go pricing, and fast internet.
Encore is an open-source backend framework and cloud platform for building distributed systems. It automates infrastructure, offers end-to-end type-safety, and provides built-in observability.
- Automated Infrastructure:
Local & Cloud (AWS/GCP) provisioning
Infrastructure semantics within application code
No separate config tools needed
- Type-Safe Microservices:
Define & call APIs like normal functions
Full type-safety & IDE auto-complete
Automatic protocol communication boilerplate
- Faster Development:
Hot reload & automatic local infrastructure setup
Simplified, speedier development process
Observability:
API explorer, distributed tracing, architecture diagrams
Service catalog with automatic API documentation
- Cloud Platform:
Seamless workflow with CI/CD, testing, & infrastructure provisioning
Preview environments for every PR
- Security & Scalability:
Battle-tested AWS/GCP services
Best practices for security & scalability
Metrics & logging for critical aspects
- Automated Infrastructure:
Local & Cloud (AWS/GCP) provisioning
Infrastructure semantics within application code
No separate config tools needed
- Type-Safe Microservices:
Define & call APIs like normal functions
Full type-safety & IDE auto-complete
Automatic protocol communication boilerplate
- Faster Development:
Hot reload & automatic local infrastructure setup
Simplified, speedier development process
Observability:
API explorer, distributed tracing, architecture diagrams
Service catalog with automatic API documentation
- Cloud Platform:
Seamless workflow with CI/CD, testing, & infrastructure provisioning
Preview environments for every PR
- Security & Scalability:
Battle-tested AWS/GCP services
Best practices for security & scalability
Metrics & logging for critical aspects
The use cases covered in the article include caching, queueing, locking, throttling, session store, and rate limiting.
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Microsoft has deployed GPT-4, a large language model, in an isolated, air-gapped Azure Government Top Secret cloud for use by the Department of Defense. Once accredited, Pentagon officials will be able to use the technology in a secure environment. The tool is expected to help DOD officials deal with vast amounts of data and simplify information sorting. Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, the maker of GPT-4 and the popular ChatGPT.
