Amazon Aurora provides high performance, availability & compatibility at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases. With Aurora I/O-optimized, customers can predict and reduce I/O costs by up to 90% for demanding workloads such as e-commerce & payment processing. It offers an improved price-performanc.. read more  

Low-cost SSDs may seem like a smart purchase, but one engineer found out that the tradeoff in price ultimately led to poor performance. Even though they function well regarding read performance, these inexpensive drives had atrocious write performance, demonstrating that it may be wiser to buy an ex.. read more  

Graceful shutdown is essential for production systems to avoid data loss. In case of abrupt shut down of a service, the clients would get an error and could lose data. A hook function must be set to shut it down gracefully and a proper sequence of shutting down the different components of a system m.. read more  

Ampere launches its AmpereOne family, a set of processors that are custom-designed and highly optimised for data center use cases. The new processor core is based on Arm's Neoverse architecture and built in-house using advanced process technology. Ampere CEO, Renée James, says this is a "cloud nativ.. read more  

Cloudflare has announced a new API that allows developers to send outbound TCP traffic from their serverless applications to any database that speaks TCP. This will enable developers to connect to databases via standard protocol including MySQL, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, and have the vast majority of d.. read more  

Cloudflare launches Secret Store for centralized and secure management of sensitive information such as API tokens, variables, and authorization headers across multiple applications and services. The tool allows administrators to restrict access and track usage through extensive audits and rotating .. read more  

Research has shown that Google Cloud Platform's CloudSQL service, which supports database engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server, has a critical vulnerability that could expose sensitive customer data. The vulnerability enables escalation of initial privilege by adding the user/dbrootrole.. read more  

Red Hat expands its Service Interconnect portfolio to include the open-sourceSkupper.ioproject, adding another layer of networking for application components to run on different platforms. Red Hat also launched its managed advanced cluster security and a cloud service based on its cloud security pla.. read more  

Hiring cloud native experts can be challenging and expensive, but by investing in a robust training and certification program, you can bridge the gap... read more  

Technical debt, which results from poorly coded software and/or evolving requirements, can lead to system fragility and risk. It is important to measure technical debt and rank it alongside other organizational risks. Threat engineering provides an objective and quantitative approach to managing tec.. read more