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Why doesn’t Rust care more about compiler performance?

Rust’scompiler speedhas doubled in three years for some benchmarks. Remarkably efficient. But its intricate architecture still wrestles with progress. Stability hogs the spotlight, and new features waltz in, leaving optimizations to grab scraps. Volunteers—Rust’s lifeblood—fuel much of its growth. T..

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How We Cut Our AWS Bill by Over 20% and Boosted Application Performance

Migrating toAWS GravitonwithJava 21didn't just pinch pennies—it saved 20% and cranked up performance. Why? The magic of ARM64 support and multi-arch CI/CD. They navigated the switch by harnessing dual-architecture EKS clusters and canary deployments. Result? A smoother path with zero hiccups. End us..

How We Cut Our AWS Bill by Over 20% and Boosted Application Performance
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Terraform security: 5 foundational practices

Lock downTerraformlike Fort Knox. Verify your module origins. Guard sensitive state data like a nosy neighbor's business. And, please, no hardcoded credentials—rookie mistake. For ironclad security, pin those module versions, tap into private registries, and wield the power of dynamic provider crede..

Terraform security: 5 foundational practices
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Clarifying Roles in Data and Engineering: Why Specialization Matters

Data Analystssift through the past usingSQLandBI tools. Their goal? Unearthing insights. Meanwhile,Data Scientistsharness the power ofPythonandRto gaze into the future—predicting trends like data-driven oracles. On another front,Data Engineerscraft pipelines. ThinkApache Spark—the stage manager for ..

Clarifying Roles in Data and Engineering: Why Specialization Matters
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AWS Lambda announces native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Kafka events

AWS Lambdanow natively supportsAvroandProtobufformatted Kafka events, dancing through schema chaos with Glue and Confluent registries. Toss custom deserialization in the trash; plug inPowertoolsand let open-source Kafka consumer interfaces do the grunt work...

AWS Lambda announces native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Kafka events
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Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity

AWS VPClets your inner network architect cheer:500 routes per tablenow. That’s a cool 10x boost from before, turning network scaling from a headache into a child's play. 🚀..

Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity
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On Azure’s new SRE Agent

Microsoft's shinySRE Agentwades into network snafus with swagger but makes some bold, perplexing claims—like leaning on faulty data insights for fixes. Slick demos dazzle, yet its "approve and act" zeal might lure newbies into rash decisions. Handle with care!..

On Azure’s new SRE Agent
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Load Testing with Impulse at Airbnb

Impulselets Airbnb teams wreak havoc in the best way possible. It makes load testing in Java/Kotlin a breeze. No need to call in the cavalry. It just mocks what it needs to and spins up a frenzy of pseudo-real traffic...

Load Testing with Impulse at Airbnb
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Automatic rollbacks are a last resort

Throw automatic rollbacks out the window. You don't need them.Continuous Deliverypartnered withhuman-driven resiliencesharpens up your software. When things go sideways, a speedy roll forward with a clever fix beats a blind retreat. Automatic rollbacks? They skip the surprises and rob you of learnin..

Automatic rollbacks are a last resort
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Terraform AWS provider 6.0 now generally available

Terraform AWS Provider 6.0bursts onto the scene with multi-region support. Now, devs can tweak 32 config files in one shot, slimming down memory bloat. 🌍💻..

Terraform AWS provider 6.0 now generally available
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