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AWS announces an updated Service Level Agreement (SLA) for AWS Secrets Manager, promising a stronger availability commitment. It enables users to retrieve and manage secrets throughout their lifecycle, making it easier to follow security best practices... read more
Roblox's technical infrastructure has experienced significant growth and complexity as the platform has expanded over the years. Currently supporting over 70 million daily active users, Roblox is focused on increasing the resilience of its infrastructure to prevent system-wide outages and ensure a h.. read more
Public clouds offer businesses the opportunity to break free from the IT quagmire and improve their infrastructure without worrying about expensive servers. With the ability to define almost everything in software, cloud deployments become easier to manage and track changes. Additionally, public clo.. read more
Amazon's cloud event, re:Invent 2023, featured exciting announcements such as a new generative AI assistant called Amazon Q, next-generation AWS-designed chips for faster and more energy-efficient workloads, and powerful capabilities for Amazon Bedrock to customize models and execute multistep tasks.. read more
Customers often struggle with implementing Blue/Green deployments to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS CodeDeploy, especially in cross-Region and cross-account deployment scenarios. The author discusses specific design decisions and introduces CDK Pipelines as a solution to aut.. read more
The new testing framework for Terraform allows you to test your Terraform configurations using Terraform itself, running plan and apply commands to create actual infrastructure. This framework is declarative and uses the same language as the rest of your infrastructure, eliminating the need for thir.. read more
Knock recently upgraded from Postgres 11.9 to 15.3 with zero downtime using logical replication, support scripts, and tools in Elixir & Erlang’s BEAM virtual machine. They planned the upgrade well in advance, minimizing customer impact and ensuring a smooth transition by gradually migrating tables a.. read more
AI is becoming an inevitable necessity in the world of software engineering, particularly in observability where complexity often surpasses comprehension. The Pyroscope team used AI to make flamegraph analysis intuitive, even for beginners, by comparing the interpretations of humans and AI when give.. read more
Delivering better software, faster remains the primary goal for DevOps teams heading into 2024. However, it's important to remember that DevOps is not just about technology, but about removing the friction between silos and promoting teamwork... read more
Database is the most crucial part of each application. While we can accept some issues with the frontend or with the backend, we simply cannot let our database fail or become slow. In this post we will see the crucial database performance metrics and how to improve database performance. We will focus on monitoring, configuration, and various database engines (postgres or mysql), and we will see why they are important.
