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Cloudflare’s perspective of the October 30 OVHcloud outage

Cloudflare observed a significant traffic drop starting at 13:21 UTC during the October 30 OVHcloud outage, with peered traffic volume falling significantly and a spike in traffic routed to the Amsterdam data center. OVHcloud's outage was attributed to an issue in a network configuration pushed by a..

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Windows Server 2025 snafu was like a supply chain attack

Microsoft's blunder—a mislabeled Windows Server 2025 upgrade as a security patch—reveals the peril of automation gone awry when paired with human error, spotlighting fragile update processes that still rely on legacy systems or closed-source methodologies, and underscores the urgent need for a unive..

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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database offershorizontal scalingthrough serverless sharding to enhance write throughput and storage capacity, utilizing routers and shards to manage SQL connections and data distribution among sharded, reference, and standard tables, while maintaining PostgreSQL c..

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available
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Introducing Express brokers for Amazon MSK to deliver high throughput and faster scaling for your Kafka clusters

With the launch of Express brokers in Amazon MSK, enjoy up to three times more throughput with fewer brokers,scale 20 times faster, experience90% quicker recovery during failures, benefit from hands-free storage management without preprovisioning, and manage clusters effortlessly using preconfigured..

Introducing Express brokers for Amazon MSK to deliver high throughput and faster scaling for your Kafka clusters
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How we avoided an outage caused by running out of IPs in EKS

Adevinta's platform team narrowly avoided a severe IP exhaustion outage during an EKS migration by creatively implementing a custom networking configuration with Secondary CIDR after experimenting with alternatives like Cilium and IPv6, ultimately revealing critical insights for scaling and capacity..

How we avoided an outage caused by running out of IPs in EKS
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Modernize your legacy apps with minimal code changes using sidecars

Azure App Service's general availability of Sidecars enables app modernization by allowing enterprises to add AI, logging, and security capabilities without major code rewrites, enhancing legacy app performance and integrating new functions through a containerized sidecar pattern, facilitating deplo..

Modernize your legacy apps with minimal code changes using sidecars
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Three Mile Island nuclear site to reopen in Microsoft deal

Microsoft's 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to purchase power from a reopened Three Mile Island plant, independent of the notorious 1979 accident site, signifies a bold shift to carbon-free nuclear energy as tech giants like Amazon explore similar paths for AI-driven data centers, requiring r..

Three Mile Island nuclear site to reopen in Microsoft deal
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The Unofficial SRE Track for KubeCon NA '24

KubeCon North America features over three hundred technical talks, including case studies on scaling reliability and the impact of AI on SRE teams. Rootly will have a significant presence at the conference, with a booth in the Solutions Showroom and various events throughout the week. Additionally, ..

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I Waited 10 Billion Cycles and All I Got Was This Loading Screen

Modern software, despite running on exceptionally fast hardware capable of powering advanced 3D simulations, often feels sluggish due to the reliance on inefficient web technologies; while web-based tools like Figma show off astounding performance by harnessing WebAssembly and WebGL, many apps, espe..

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We’re leaving Kubernetes

After six years of wrestling with Kubernetes for cloud development environments, Gitpod discovered that Kubernetes's inherent complexity, security concerns with arbitrary code, and unpredictable resource patterns make it ill-suited for development workspaces, leading to the birth of Gitpod Flex—a st..

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