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(3 min) Amazon Web Services has made Amazon Linux 2022 now publicly available in preview form as the newest version of their Linux distribution...

(3 min) In August, we introduced the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6i instances powered by the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. Compute-optimized EC2 C6i instances were also made available last month. Today, I am happy to share that we are expanding our sixth-generation x86-based offerings to […]

(0 min) People living in Burkina Faso are facing an Internet shutdown. Cloudflare Radar shows that after 22:00 UTC (the same local time) Internet traffic went down significantly, something that has happened in the context of social tensions in the country that started on November 14, 2021.

(0 min) The Internet started to come back to Sudan (with limitations) this past Thursday, November 18. This happens after 25 days (three weeks and four days) of an almost complete shutdown that affected the whole country.

(5 min) It’s one thing to set up an observability strategy. But what’s it like to introduce and scale observability effectively across an organization? In a wide-ranging conversation at ObservabilityCON 2021, three technical pros from Snyk, TripAdvisor, and Citibank joined Grafana Labs VP Global Solutions Engineering Steve Mayzak and — with more than 75 years experience between them — they shared the triumphs and turbulence in their respective observability journeys. Buy vs. build When it comes to the foundation of monitoring their systems, each expert started from a different vantage point before gravitating to Grafana.  “I’m a big fan of buy vs. build where you can get away with it,” said Crystal Hirschorn, Director of Engineering at developer security platform Snyk. With a small …

(0 min) The second 5.16 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "Nothing especially noteworthy stands out for the last week, it all felt pretty normal for a rc2 week".

(0 min) Security updates have been issued by Debian (firebird3.0, libmodbus, and salt), Fedora (js-jquery-ui and wordpress), Mageia (arpwatch, chromium-browser-stable, php, rust, and wireshark), openSUSE (barrier, firefox, hylafax+, opera, postgresql12, postgresql13, postgresql14, and tomcat), SUSE (ardana-ansible, ardana-monasca, crowbar-openstack, influxdb, kibana, openstack-cinder, openstack-ec2-api, openstack-heat-gbp, openstack-heat-templates, openstack-horizon-plugin-gbp-ui, openstack-keystone, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-nova, python-eventlet, rubygem-redcarpet, rubygem-puma, ardana-ansible, ardana-monasca, documentation-suse-openstack-cloud, openstack-ec2-api, openstack-heat-templates, python-Django, python-monasca-common, rubygem-redcarpet, rubygem-puma, firefox, kernel, postgresql, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql10, postgresql12, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql96, and samba), and Ubuntu (libreoffice).

(0 min) The 5.15.4, 5.14.21, 5.10.81, and 5.4.161 stable kernels have been released. Each contains another set of important updates, but it's worth noting that 5.4.161 hasn't been through the usual review process due to an amusing bit of scripting confusion.

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(4 min) Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog Come misurare l’efficacia di una strategia DevOps? In questo articolo approfondiamo le 6 principali metriche DevOps utili a questo scopo.  Implementing a DevOps strategy without...

(3 min) Libreboot 20211122 has been released as the downstream fork of Coreboot on providing fully free software boot firmware support...

(3 min) British Linux PC vendor Star Labs now has support for their StarBook Mk V laptop upstreamed into Coreboot, which marks their second product having this achievement...

(3 min) Last year with Intel "Tiger Lake" was the introduction of Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for helping fend off return/jump-oriented attacks and as part of CET is hardware Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) support. There have been patch series working to implement CET's IBT support but after having gone through 30 rounds of review and not being merged, a new take on it was submitted today...

(3 min) For those looking to assemble your own AMD EPYC 7002/7003 series 2P server or workstation, the ASRock Rack ROME2D16-2T we have been testing out for the past quarter and it's been holding up well across our daily benchmarking and other Linux and BSD tasks. The board has been working out very well and is currently available from retailers like NewEgg.

(3 min) Microsoft's latest work in the area of open-source graphics drivers with the Mesa stack is for adding Direct3D 12 video acceleration support...

(2 min) Going back two years already ASpeed developers have been working on prepping AST2600 support for Linux, their seventh generation server management processor / BMC. The latest open-source driver activity points to the AST2600 having DisplayPort support...

(3 min) The Linux kernel continues to see improvements around ASUS laptop support on Linux, but the contributions have not been coming directly from the company but rather the community and sometimes after reverse-engineering...

(3 min) IWD as the Intel-developed iNet Wireless Daemon that can serve as a replacement to the likes of WPA_Supplicant while integrating nicely with NetworkManager / systemd-networkd / ConnMan is out with a new version...

(2 min) EROFS-Utils as the collection of open-source user-space utilities for the read-only EROFS file-system is out with a big update...

(1 min) DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #569 - 21st November 2021 A real mix of content this week, on everything from incident reports and supply chain security to robust network systems and data governance. StackHawk sponsors Devops Weekly ============================ Learn how to easily add three different types of application security testing to your GitHub pipeline in StackHawk’s hands-on workshop: https://sthwk.com/github-actions-workshop News ==== Rapid growth poses lots of interesting operational and scaling challenges. This retrospective on a month of incidents is worth a read. https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/incident-resolution-september-retrospective/ A nice collection of materials on software supply chain security. From whitepapers to academic research, tooling and conferences. https://github.com/chu…

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(3 min) Linus Torvalds just issued the second release candidate of Linux 5.16 following the closure of the merge window last Sunday...

(3 min) Going on for more than a half-decade now has been the effort around Linux Random Number Generator as a new /dev/random implementation for Linux. After more than five years, LRNG continues to work towards being mainlined and today marks the 43rd revision to these patches...

(3 min) Back in September we were first to report on Intel developing "Software Defined Silicon" support for being able to activate extra licensed hardware features not otherwise exposed. Intel hasn't talked about the controversial feature in terms of product plans but this weekend they posted a new revision of this Intel "SDSi" Linux driver...

(2 min) A set of more than two dozen patches by Google engineer Sean Christopherson overhauls KVM's x86/x86_64 TDP MMU zapping and flushing code...

(3 min) For years LLVM has been working on a massive relicensing of its code-base but that effort is still ongoing as they are still trying to track down some past contributors to collect their sign-offs on the change...

(2 min) Gluster 10 was released this past week as the open-source scalable/distributed network file-system led by Red Hat...

(0 min) Several months ago, we shared extensive benchmarking results of edge networks around the world, and made a commitment that we would improve in 10% of networks where we were not #1. Here are our results today.

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(2 min) Well known AMD OpenGL open-source driver developer Marek Olšák managed to land yet more performance optimizations this week into Mesa 22.0...

(3 min) As expected when writing about Wine 6.22 yesterday that the annual stable release dance was likely upon us, plans were laid out today for that Wine 7.0 release...

(3 min) Even with the holidays ahead the KDE developers remain very busy improving their desktop software stack for Plasma 5.24 and other forthcoming component releases...

(3 min) Picolibc as the open-source C library optimized for small embedded systems with limited RAM capacities is out with a new update...

(3 min) With GCC 12 having added a new option to enable Straight Line Speculation "SLS" mitigation for x86/x86_64 CPUs, Linux kernel developers are preparing to enable this new compiler feature for further reducing undesirable speculation exposure...

(0 min) Handling payments inside your apps is crucial to building a business online. For many developers, the leading choice for handling payments is Stripe.

(0 min) Today, we are extending the Stream Player vision with a series of new customization options to help you deliver the best end-user experience.

(0 min) One of the most exciting things about serverless is not that you can now build everything in serverless, but that it becomes really easy to connect multiple managed services. Tejas Mehta built cClip by connecting services like RevenueCat, Stripe and Firebase into a fully fledged product.

(0 min) We are developing an example feature-complete SaaS application that will be built entirely on the Cloudflare stack.

(0 min) Today, we’re going to build a video application inspired by Cloudflare TV. We’ll have user authentication and the ability for administrators to upload recorded videos or livestream new content. Think about being able to build your own YouTube or Twitch using Cloudflare services!

(4 min) Back in May, we announced the Kubernetes integration to help users easily monitor and alert on core Kubernetes cluster metrics using the Grafana Agent, our lightweight observability data collector optimized for sending metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Cloud. Since then, we’ve made some improvements to help our customers go even further.  This guide will show how easy it is to use Grafana Cloud to troubleshoot and alert on your Kubernetes cluster. Step 1: Get the Kubernetes integration in Grafana Cloud Setting up the integration is fast and easy. From the Grafana Cloud homepage UI, click on the lightning bolt integrations icon on the menu bar and select ‘Walkthrough’ under the Onboarding tab. Step 2: Configure the Agent to scrape metrics  The Kubernetes …

(0 min) One does not normally expect a lot of disagreement over a 13-line patch that effectively tweaks a single line of code. Occasionally, though, such a patch can expose a disagreement over how the behavior of the kernel should be managed. This patch from Drew DeVault, who is evidently taking a break from stirring up the npm community, is a case in point. It brings to light the question of how the kernel community should pick default values for configurable parameters like resource limits.

(0 min) Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, grafana, kubectl-ingress-nginx, and opera), Debian (netkit-rsh and salt), Fedora (freeipa and samba), Mageia (opensc, python-django-filter, qt4, tinyxml, and transfig), openSUSE (opera and transfig), Red Hat (devtoolset-11-annobin, devtoolset-11-binutils, and llvm-toolset:rhel8), SUSE (php72 and php74), and Ubuntu (mailman and thunderbird).

(3 min) Wine 6.22 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms like macOS and FreeBSD. Wine 6.22 brings more improvements while the Wine 7.0 stable release is inching closer...

(3 min) Box86 as the open-source project to run Linux x86 binaries on other CPU architectures like ARM is out with a new feature release along with the accompanying Box64 project for x86_64 treatment. With today's Box86 update is even expanded Vulkan support now good enough for handling DXVK...

(3 min) Following experimental Zink work to improve the NVIDIA driver support as part of the broader Copper initiative that also allows running Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan for Wayland's Weston compositor, another milestone has now been reached...

(3 min) There is a patch pending that improves the Linux kernel's dealing with the hybrid P and E cores found with Intel's new Alder Lake processors that will benefit some systems/motherboards...

(3 min) A fourth iteration of the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver patches for Linux have been sent out for review and testing...

(2 min) FWUPD 1.7.2 is out as the latest release of this leading open-source solution for handling firmware updates under Linux for devices from motherboard UEFI to peripheral firmware...

(2 min) OpenCL 3.0.10 has been tagged as the newest revision to the OpenCL 3.0 API...

(3 min) Intel last month open-sourced "ControlFlag" for finding bugs within source code by using AI with training off more than a reported one billion lines of code. Intel has said they have successfully been using it within their software from applications down to firmware. The new milestone today is ControlFlag 1.0 being released...

(0 min) Workers is now even more Unbound, with no egress, more execution time, and more scripts.

(0 min) Two months ago we launched Cloudflare Images for everyone and we are amazed about the adoption and the feedback we received. Today we are announcing AVIF and Blur support for Cloudflare Images and give you a preview of the upcoming functionality.

(0 min) Jacob operates TriTails Premium Beef, an online store for meat, a very perishable good. So he has a unique set of challenges with shipping. As a developer, he turned to Airtable and Cloudflare Workers to automate large parts of the process to be able to deal with their rapid growth.

(0 min) HTTP response headers can now be modified with Cloudflare Transform Rules.

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(4 min) With the recent release of Loki 2.4 and Grafana Enterprise Logs 1.2, we’re excited to introduce a new deployment architecture.  Previously, if you wanted to scale a Loki installation, your options were: 1) run multiple instances of a single binary (not recommended!), or 2) run Loki as microservices.  The first option was easy, but it led to brittle environments where a heavy query load could take down data ingestion and problems were often difficult to debug. The second option scales well but requires Kubernetes and strong Kubernetes experience.  This is why we have introduced a third deployment architecture called the simple, scalable deployment. The simple, scalable deployment introduces two new targets, `read` and `write`, that provide a simple way to separate the read an…

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(0 min) The kernel provides a number of macros internally to allow code to generate warnings when something goes wrong. It does not, however, provide a lot of guidance regarding what should happen when a warning is issued. Alexander Popov recently posted a patch series adding an option for the system's response to warnings; that series seems unlikely to be applied in anything close to its current form, but it did succeed in provoking a discussion on how warnings should be handled.

(0 min) Greg Kroah-Hartman has released two more stable kernels. 5.14.20 reverts three patches from the 5.14.19 release, while 5.10.80 is one of the massive updates mentioned yesterday. The other massive release mentioned, 5.15.3, is still under review and can be expected in the next day or two. As usual, the kernels released contain important fixes and users should upgrade. Update: 5.15.3 was also released.

(0 min) Security updates have been issued by CentOS (binutils, firefox, flatpak, freerdp, httpd, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, openssl, and thunderbird), Fedora (python-sport-activities-features, rpki-client, and vim), and Red Hat (devtoolset-10-annobin and devtoolset-10-binutils).

(0 min) The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 18, 2021 is available.

(5 min) New training course from CNCF and The Linux Foundation provides basic knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud native architectures and helps prepare for new entry-level certification SAN FRANCISCO – November 18, 2021 –...

(5 min) Guest post originally published on SparkFabrik’s blog by SparkFabrik Team Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration solution, is gaining an increasing amount of popularity – (recent data in fact shows that, in the AWS cloud, it is...

(3 min) Earlier this month I provided benchmarks showing the Intel UHD Graphics 770 with Alder Lake compared to other CPUs/APUs under Linux. Those tests were done with the latest open-source Intel Linux graphics driver code at the time, but for those running Alder Lake and wondering if it's worthwhile moving from the stable versions to more bleeding-edge components, this article is for you.

(3 min) With Chrome 96 released, Google has now promoted Chrome 97 to beta as the next iteration of their web browser...

(3 min) The Linux 5.16 merge window now past, an initial batch of changes from drm-misc-next has been sent in to DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 5.17 cycle kicks off around the start of the new year...

(7 min) Should disaster strike, business continuity can require more than just periodic data backups. A full recovery that meets the business’s recovery time objectives (RTOs) must also include the infrastructure, operating systems, applications, and configurations used to process their data. The growing threats of ransomware highlight the need to be able to perform a full point-in-time […]

(0 min) Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!

(0 min) Due to the nature of CodePen — namely, hosting code and an incredibly popular embedding feature, allowing developers to share their CodePen “pens” around the world — any sort of optimization can have a massive impact on CodePen’s business.

(6 min) At Grafana Labs, we are continuing to build integrations that make it easier than ever to observe your systems, no matter which tools or software you choose.  Today, we’re excited to talk about the latest integration available in Grafana Cloud: the AWS CloudWatch metrics integration, the first of our fully managed integrations that makes it simple to connect and visualize your data in Grafana. AWS CloudWatch: plugin vs. integration AWS CloudWatch is a powerful tool to monitor the resources you have provisioned in the cloud and to help understand their usage, utilization, and performance. In fact, CloudWatch is such an important tool to monitor AWS services that it is already one of the most popular core Grafana data source plugins.  With the CloudWatch integration, you will now be able to …

(0 min) Even encrypted data sent on the internet leaves some footprints—metadata about where packets originate, where they are bound, and when they are sent. Mix networks are meant to hide that metadata by routing packets through various intermediate nodes to try to thwart the traffic analysis used by nation-state-level adversaries to identify "opponents" of various kinds. Tor is perhaps the best-known mix network, but there are others that make different tradeoffs to increase the security of their users. Rollercoaster is a recently announced mechanism that extends the functionality of mix networks in order to more efficiently communicate among groups.

(0 min) Security updates have been issued by CentOS (389-ds-base and libxml2), Debian (atftp, axis, and ntfs-3g), Fedora (digikam, freerdp, guacamole-server, and remmina), openSUSE (java-11-openjdk, kernel, samba, and tomcat), SUSE (firefox, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libarchive, samba, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (accountsservice, hivex, and openexr).

(0 min) The 5.14.19 and 5.4.160 stable kernels have been released; these updates contain a huge number of important fixes. The equally massive 5.15.3 and 5.10.80 updates were also intended for release but, as the result of some problems that turned up in testing, they will be going through one more round of review first.

(7 min) Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by Eliza Weisman Linkerd 2.11 is here and with it are some cool new updates. One I am particularly excited about (full disclosure: I worked on...

(6 min) Guest post originally published on the Pixie blog by Zain Asgar, GVP/GM at New Relic, Co-Founder/CEO of Pixie Labs This is the first in a series of posts describing how we can...

(2 min) We first launched Cloud Native Community Groups just over a year ago to help the community stay better connected. Since then, the use of the platform has grown dramatically.  There are now...

(6 min) On 2021-10-29, initial support for Prometheus Agent was merged, and it is slated for inclusion in Prometheus v2.32! This feature has a bit of a lengthy history to it:  On 2020-03-18, we announced Grafana Agent, a subset of Prometheus that didn’t need the TSDB for sending metrics with remote write. On 2020-12-17, Prometheus Team held a dev summit where they agreed to cover Grafana Agent-like functionality in the official Prometheus project.  On 2021-01-27, I published a proposal for how we could do this by moving Grafana Agent code upstream.  On 2021-05-05, the initial PR to move Grafana Agent code upstream was opened.  On 2021-10-29, that PR was merged into Prometheus’s main branch.  It took a little while to get to where we are today, but I’m thrilled that we were able to use the Grafana …

(0 min) The Trojan Source vulnerabilities have been rippling through various development communities since their disclosure on November 1. The oddities that can arise when handling Unicode, and bidirectional Unicode in particular, in a programming language have led Rust, for example, to check for the problematic code points in strings and comments and, by default, refuse to compile if they are present. Python has chosen a different path, but work is underway to help inform programmers of the kinds of pitfalls that Trojan Source has highlighted.

(0 min) Security updates have been issued by Debian (libxml-security-java), Fedora (botan2), openSUSE (drbd-utils, kernel, and samba), Red Hat (kernel and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (drbd-utils and samba), and Ubuntu (vim).

(3 min) The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has three main bodies: a Governing Board (GB) that is responsible for marketing, budget, and other business oversight decisions for the CNCF, a Technical Oversight Committee...

(3 min) Project post by Prometheus maintainers Prometheus, the leading open source monitoring solution hosted by CNCF, has announced today a new operating mode: the Prometheus Agent. This new way of working enables new...

(4 min) Today we are releasing Grafana 8.2.4. This patch release includes security fixes that affect Grafana versions 8.0.0 through 8.2.3. The vulnerability only affects Grafana instances where fine-grained access control beta is enabled, and there is more than one organization in the Grafana instance. If you are not affected by this, you can skip this update. Release v8.2.4, only containing a security fix: Download Grafana 8.2.4 Release notes Incorrect Access Control (CVE-2021-41244) Summary On Nov. 2, during an internal security audit, we discovered that when the fine-grained access control beta feature is enabled and there is more than one organization in the Grafana instance, Grafana 8.0 introduced a mechanism which allowed users with the Organization Admin role to list, add, remove, and updat…

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(1 min) Version 2.34.0 of the Git source-code management system is out. "It is comprised of 834 non-merge commits since v2.33.0, contributed by 109 people, 29 of which are new faces". See this GitHub blog post for a look at some of the more significant changes in this release: ort does just that: it’s a full-blown rewrite of the merge strategy that aims to emulate the same concepts behind recursive while avoiding many of its long-standing performance and correctness problems. In a merge containing many renames, ort outperforms recursive by 500x. For a series of similar merges (like in a rebase operation), the speedup is over 9000x, in part due to ort's ability to cache and reuse results from previous merges.

(6 min) Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Frederick Fernando When you start building your cloud infrastructure, security might not be a top priority as much as getting your project up and...

(1 min) DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #568 - 14th November 2021 Security, load testing, developer efficiency, automated releases, PostgreSQL and lots more this week. StackHawk sponsors Devops Weekly ============================ StackHawk is the first dynamic application and API security testing tool to integrate with GitHub Code Scanning. Give it a go: https://sthwk.com/github-code-scanning News ==== A discussion of measuring developer success, and the importance of optimising for onboarding time for engineers, especially in a rapidly growing team. https://backstage.spotify.com/blog/measuring-backstage-success-at-spotify/ A nice post describing an automated release process, making clever use of GitHub Actions and generated changelogs. https://sudolabs.com/blog/how-we-automatized-our-release-process-into-jus…

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(5 min) It is an exciting time of year, with AWS re:Invent right around the corner. As we reflect back on 2021, we continue to be impressed by the way AWS communities support one-another across intersecting journeys to expand technical skills. At the center of these communities are impactful leaders who go above and beyond to create […]

(4 min) Two years ago I told you about the then-new G4 instances, which featured up to eight NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances were designed to give you cost-effective GPU power for machine learning inference and graphics-intensive applications. Today I am happy to tell you about the new G5 instances, which feature up to eight […]

(4 min) After three days of exciting feature announcements and jam-packed sessions at ObservabilityCON 2021, are you still hungry for more observability talk? Then register now for one of our upcoming webinars led by Grafana Labs' technical experts.  Reducing MTTR with Grafana’s observability stack: Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo Tuesday, November 16 @ 9:30 PST, 12:30 EST, 17:30 UTC Grafana Labs Principal Solutions Engineer Patrick Brennan will demonstrate how working with Grafana’s opinionated stack — Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces — can help you not only reduce MTTR. You’ll also better understand the state of your environment and how to address underlying issues that could be contributing to ongoing issues.  The webinar will also show you how, within Grafana, you can se…

(12 min) Guest post originally published on Dev.to by Purneswar Prasad Let’s have some context: KubeCon+CloudNativeCon is one of the biggest conferences in the world where users, developers and companies who have/want to adopt the Cloud...

(1 min) Your invite to deploy by DigitalOcean is here! #outlook a { padding:0; } body { margin:0;padding:0;-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%;-ms-text-size-adjust:100%; } table { border-spacing:0;} img { border:0;height:auto;line-height:100%; outline:none;text-decoration:none;-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; } p { display:block;margin:13px 0; } 96 table { border-collapse:collapse;mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt; } .mj-outlook-group-fix { width:100% !important; } .block-grid-outlook .button-container a {background: transparent !important;} …

(7 min) I am excited to announce the immediate availability of AWS Resilience Hub, a new AWS service designed to help you define, track, and manage the resilience of your applications. You are building and managing resilient applications to serve your customers. Building distributed systems is hard; maintaining them in an operational state is even harder. The […]

(5 min) Grafana Tempo 1.2 has been released! Among other things, we are proud to present both our first version to support search and the most performant version of Tempo ever released. There are also some minor breaking changes so make sure to check those out below.  If you want ALL the details you can always check out the v1.2 changelog, but if that’s too much, this post will cover all the big ticket items. You can also check out our ObservabilityCON 2021 session dedicated to tracing, Tempo, and our newest product Grafana Enterprise Traces. New features in Grafana Tempo 1.2 Recent traces search Recent traces search allows Grafana Cloud users to search Tempo for traces that are still in the ingesters. This duration defaults to at least 15 minutes but can be modified by using the complete_block_ti…

(6 min) Loki 2.4 is here! It comes with a very long list of cool new features, but there are a couple things I really want to focus on here.  Loki can now accept out of order writes Running Loki is easier than ever Be sure to check out the full release notes and of course the upgrade guide to get all the latest info about upgrading Loki. Also check out our ObservabilityCON 2021 session Why Loki is easier to use and operate than ever before. Supporting out of order logs The strict ordering constraint on Loki has long been a challenge for many Loki users, and please believe me when I tell you that we didn’t do this just to be difficult. Ingesting log data quickly and in a memory efficient way is challenging!  Today, Loki groups incoming logs into blocks and when they reach a specific …

(5 min) A critical part of managing modern software development is setting up and running an on-call rotation. But that often involves significant toil, in part because many of the existing tools are cumbersome and not developer-friendly.   That’s why we’re excited to announce Grafana OnCall, an easy-to-use on-call management tool that will help reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces tailored for devs. It’s now available in beta preview to all Grafana Cloud users with both free and paid plans. We started Amixr because we had both experienced the pain of being on call ourselves and felt we could help make it better. We noticed that existing on-call tools were complicated to set up and maintain, weren’t developer-friendly, and lacked deep integrati…

(4 min) We launched the Canada (Central) Region in 2016 and added a third Availability Zone in 2020. Since that launch, tens of thousands of AWS customers have used AWS services in Canada to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and to drive cost savings. This includes enterprises such as Air Canada, BMO Financial Group, NHL, Porter Airlines, and […]

(1 min) DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #567 - 7th November 2021 Two posts this week on large scale CI systems, and the interesting engineering around them. Also a great post on building trust in complex systems, a new Lua-derived embeddable language and some good observability links too. StackHawk sponsors Devops Weekly ============================ All of our quality testing has been automated in CI/CD. So why hasn’t security? Learn what keeps security from shifting left: https://sthwk.com/ci-pipeline News ==== An excellent post on the subtleties of building trust in systems, including the technical systems and the people that make complex software work. https://medium.com/mercadona-tech/in-our-systems-we-trust-cb92cfb43417 Another great post, this one on a long term effort to reduce the cost and improve the…

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(6 min) Two years ago, we introduced Amazon SageMaker Studio, the industry’s first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps, improving data science team productivity by up to 10 times Many data scientists love the R project, an […]

(0 min) We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for November across a number of our chapters: Seattle 11/4: PWL #70: Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale Chattanooga 11/9: Ben Marx on Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale

(1 min) DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #566 - 31st October 2021 Service ownership, scripting languages, open source observability tooling, operations career progression, stored procedures, logging and more this week. StackHawk sponsors Devops Weekly ============================ Join Snyk and StackHawk on November 2 @ 10:30 AM ET to learn how to implement automated security testing across your CI/CD pipeline. Register: https://sthwk.com/dev-centric-security News ==== Some thoughts about the future of scripting languages, interesting given this is where much of the code operations teams write resides. https://www.jntrnr.com/scripting-languages-of-the-future/ An interview with a good discussion about service ownership, service maturity, and service level indicators. https://www.opslevel.com/blog/opslevel-convos…

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(3 min) We recently introduced Amazon EC2 M6i instances powered by the latest generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, which offer customers up to 15% improvement in price performance compared to M5 instances. Today, I am happy to announce the availability of the new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6i instances, which […]

(6 min) Many of our customers are telling us they want to move away from proprietary database vendors to avoid expensive costs and burdensome licensing terms. But migrating away from commercial and legacy databases can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. When migrating your databases, you can automate the migration of your database schema and data using the AWS […]

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(7 min) The first AWS service I used, more than ten years ago, was Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Over time, EC2 has added a wide selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases, with a varying combination of CPU/GPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity to give you the flexibility to choose the appropriate […]

(4 min) There are more applications today for deep learning than ever before. Natural language processing, recommendation systems, image recognition, video recognition, and more can all benefit from high-quality, well-trained models. The process of building such a model is iterative: construct an initial model, train it on the ground truth data, do some test inferences, refine the […]

(4 min) Today, we are opening three new AWS Local Zones in Las Vegas, New York City (located in New Jersey), and Portland metro areas. We are now at a total of 14 Local Zones in 13 cities since Jeff Barr announced the first Local Zone in Los Angeles in December 2019. These three new Local Zones […]

(6 min) Managing databases in self-managed environments such as on premises or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) requires customers to spend time and resources doing database administration tasks such as provisioning, scaling, patching, backups, and configuring for high availability. So, hundreds of thousands of AWS customers use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) because it automates […]

(4 min) Earlier this year, we launched the AWS BugBust Challenge, the world’s first global competition to fix one million code bugs and reduce technical debt by over $100 million. As part of this endeavor, we are launching the first AWS BugBust re:Invent Challenge at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference, from 10 a.m. (PST) November 29 to […]

(9 min) Determining viable strategies for successful application migration and modernization to the cloud takes time. It can also require significant effort, depending on the size and complexity of the application portfolio to analyze. To date, the analysis process has been largely manual and nonstandard in nature, making it difficult to apply at scale on large portfolios. […]