Disclaimer: This blog post was written as part of a collaboration withLightrun. The Rise of Generative AI and the Fall of Stack Overflow Generative AI, once viewed as a fantasy, a science-fiction tale only manifesting in Hollywood productions, has quickly integrated itself into every aspect of our d..

Marc Olson, a veteran on the Elastic Block Store (EBS) team, shares insights on the evolution of EBS from a simple block storage service to a sophisticated system capable of delivering over 140 trillion operations daily. EBS's transformation involved transitioning from HDDs to SSDs, addressing issue.. read more  

Kubernetes v1.31.0 introduces significant advancements in AI/ML workload processing, including a new volume type for OCI images and improved GPU device management. The release also enhances networking with updates to Kube-proxy, including a new nftables bucket for better performance and security. Ad.. read more  

Patrick Debois discusses exciting advances in Metaverse technology such as Synthetic Media, VR, and deepfakes, relating it back to DevOps challenges. Topics covered include VR and sound in Visualization, prompt engineering, LiveOps, Digital Twins, and other related technologies. The talk will be fur.. read more  

Notable examples include Fly.io's audience-specific pages, Soracom's information notices, Okta's 30-day incident history, Auth0's region-specific indicators, and Finmatics' multi-language support... read more  

In 2002, a backdoor was discovered in OpenSSH due to a compromised version of the source code hosted on ftp.openbsd.org. This incident was a reminder of the risks of supply-chain attacks, highlighting the importance of verifying checksums and maintaining the integrity of build systems in open-source.. read more  

Amazon Prime Day 2024 (July 17-18) was the biggest yet, with record sales and more items sold globally than any previous event. Amazon deployed over80,000InferentiaandTrainium AI chips, andover 250,000 AWS Graviton chipsfor various services. Key metrics include: - 264 PiBofAmazon EBS storage, - 376 .. read more  

Large language models (LLMs) require context to produce accurate responses, which is where Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) comes in. Observability in RAG systems involves monitoring metrics like Precision, Recall, MAP, MRR, and NDCG to ensure reliable performance. Choosing the right metrics and.. read more