Microsoft Introduces New Tiers for Its API Management Service in Azure
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of two new Azure API Management tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Microsoft Announces Radius: a New Open Application Platform for the Cloud
Microsoft has recently announced Radius, a cloud-native application platform designed to facilitate collaboration between developers and platform engineers who assist them in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. This platform ensures that...
Google Improves Cloud Spanner: More Compute and Storage without Price Increase
Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before” without a price change. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Durable Execution for Control Planes: Sergey Bykov at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, Sergey Bykov, an SDE at Temporal Technologies, presented on Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal. In his talk, Bykov introduced the concept of Durable Execution with a rea...
Amazon DataZone Generally Available: Share and Access Data across AWS Accounts
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon DataZone. This data management service allows users to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
An Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization: Erik Peterson at QCon San Francisco
A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented during day three at QCon San Francisco about the engineering’s perspective on cloud cost optimization. His session was part o...
Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at Capital One: George Mao at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, George Mao, a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, presented on his company's journey into serverless, the best practices they picked up, and the lessons learned along the way. The session was part o...
Scale Higher Per-Database Storage Limits and Create More Databases with Cloudflare D1 Open Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the open beta of its D1 serverless relational database built on SQLite.
The open beta of D1 continues on earlier company investments, with the most recent enhanced performance. With the open beta of D1, the company add...
Microsoft Announces a New Azure SQL Database Free Offer in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new Azure SQL Database free offering. This offering provides users a 32 GB General Purpose, serverless Azure SQL database with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute free monthly. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Confluent Announces Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud in Open Preview
Confluent recently announced the open preview of Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud as a fully managed service for stream processing. The company claims that the managed service will make it easier for companies to filter, join, and enrich data streams wi...