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Category: Technology, Web & Cloud

The author has a background in computer science and a passion for new technology. When the degree was earned, the web was not too popular yet. That opened an opportunity to follow the entire process with huge fascination, and the journey didn’t end yet. Most of the development happens in Python and Django these days, but all other facets are interesting, too.

  • Cloudflare announces R2 Storage

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    CloudFlare Logo

    CloudFlare hat heute eine neue Storage Option vorgestellt. Der Service, abgekürzt R2, das alternativ für “Really Requestable”,  “Ridiculously Reliable” oder “Radically Reprogrammable” stehen soll, ist der Ankündigung zufolge vollständig mit S3 von Amazon API kompatibel. Der wichtigste Punkt der Ankündigung scheint aber die Kosten Abgrenzung zu anderen Cloud-Storgae Services zu sein. Gleich in der Ankündigung ist die Rede davon, dass für diesen Service keine Express Kosten anfallen. Zusammen mit dem Service für eine “automatic migration” richtet sich das Angebot eindeutig an Entwickler und Nutzer des Amazon Services, die mit Kosten unzufrieden sind. Insgesamt fällt das Produkt damit auf den ersten Blick in eine Linie mit anderen Cloud-Angeboten, die die Cloud als solche in Richtung der Null-Grenzkosten-Ökonomie bewegen. Den Anspruch auf Verfügbarkeit und Flexibilität muss das Produkt erst beweisen. Und auch die Kostenfrage wird sich bei Nutzern stellen, die schlussendlich das Zero-Rating dieses Angebots ausgeschöpft haben.

    Introducing Cloudflare’s S3-compatible Object Storage service, with zero egress bandwidth charges and automatic migration from S3-compatible services.

    Source: Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees

  • AMD Ready To Make Arm Chips

    The ARMy grows

    Source: AMD: We Stand Ready To Make Arm Chips | Tom’s Hardware

  • cloud based CI/CD issues – travis-ci

    Travis-CI published a security bulletin the other day, describing a special condition that would allow to access secrets belonging to a foreign repository in Github or Bitbucket. The condition requires a fork from a public repository. That’s how open source work, and very central functionality. Not a corner case.

    Turns out, the cloud service did address the issue, still plenty of secrets have been affected:

    While cloud technology is all great economically, this is another sample of why commercial software vendors need to consider third party vendors in their threat profiles.

  • iPhone 13 A15

    With the anticipated release of iPhone 13 coming closer, rumours increase. Leaker @FrontTron on Twitter has some numbers, that AppleInsider is kind enough to put into perspective.

    It’s impressive how apple dominates the mobile CPU space. With last years release of “Apple Silicon” in form of the M1 chip for notebook like computing (and the iPad), the near strategy ain’t too obvious. Notebookcheck.coms interpretation is the next gen M2 will base on the A15 design, but vary in contained cores.

    A benchmark on what is said to be the GPU in Apple’s A15 chip, destined for the ” iPhone 13 ,” is 13.7% faster than the A14, maintaining Apple’s lead in mobile performance. A Manhattan 3.1 GPU benchmark test reportedly shows Apple’s A15 chip hitting 198 FPS during the first round of testing.

    From the article.

    Source

  • Contentful valued $3B++

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    Contentful, a Content-Management SaaS company, raised another round of financing. With the latest investment the Berlin founded and Headquartered is valued at over $3B.

    Contentful locked in a $175 million Series F and a $3 billion-plus valuation as it looks to take advantage of a more digital-first marketplace

    From Crunchbase

    Source: Contentful Hits $3B-Plus Valuation After Tiger Global-Led $175M Round – Crunchbase News

  • 15 facts about #machinelearning

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    15 cool facts about #machinelearning

    Source @ingliguori on Twitter:

  • Is anyone here using Azure?

    Are you using Azure? A newly published Hyper-V bug could possibly crash ‘big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure’.

    Security researchers have posted proof of concept code that exploits a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor. The bug enables code in the guest to crash the host, and in some circumstances compromise the host’s security.

    The Register

    Source: Hyper-V bug that could crash ‘big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure’: Code published

  • Google Data Cloud Summit – Recap

    Google’s Data Cloud Summit took place May 26th, 18PT. The summit is home to their big data products and offerings, that aim to help customers succeed in data driven businesses. Here is a summary of news and announcements:

    • Dataplex, an intelligent data fabric. The product allows management of data across multiple sources, including data lakes, data warehouses and data marts for the goal of centralizing management and governance. From there, Dataplex allows to make data available for analytics and data science.
    • Datastream, a server-less change data capture (CDC) and replication service. The service allows to syncronize datasets across multiple systems by transferring changes alone, thus reducing the amount of data transferred and increasing performance and reliability.
    • Announcement of Analytics Hub, a fully-managed service built on BigQuery. The service aims to provide an open ecosystem for sharing and exchanging data across organisations at scale. Part of the offering will be controls and monitoring over data usage and sharing. The hub will offer self service and monetization for data owners, while reducing the need to operate infrastructure for data owners.
    • Dataflow Prime, a no-ops, serverless data processing platform. Dataflow Prime is a managed offering of Apache Beam based data processing pipelines. The product will autoscale infrastructure.
    • Cloud Spanner will allow more flexible and granular instance sizing
    • Key Visualizer, an interactive monitoring tool to analyze usage patterns in Cloud Spanner
    • Cloud Bigtable lifts SLA to 99.999% and introduces new security features. Security features are namely customer managed encryption keys (Googles acronym CMEK) and audit logs. Alongside with SLAs, the product now aims at compliance with regulated industries.
    • Sessions are available on demand. 
    Google Data Cloud Summit

    Join us to learn how leading companies are powering innovation with our data solutions. Attend sessions, demos, and live Q&As to discover how data can help you make smarter business decisions and solve your organization’s most complex challenges.

    Google Data Cloud Summit

    Source: Home – Data Cloud Summit

  • Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers

    “Does it run Doom?” is the ultimate nerd test for technology. CloudFlare passed today running multiplayer Doom on their edge worker network:

    So, if a developer wants to run their next hit, say a real-time multiplayer game, using nothing but their app and Workers, without any servers or traditional infrastructure, can they? Let’s prove they can. Here’s Doom Multiplayer running on top of Cloudflare Workers.

    Source: Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers

  • New Splunk Observability Cloud

    Splunk announced beta availability of their new Observability Cloud at last years .conf20 already. The product became GA this week and offers Infrastructure Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring, a Log Observer, Real User Monitoring (RUM), Synthetic Monitoring and On-Call for incident response and collaboration:

    Image from the announcement

    Announcing the new Splunk Observability Cloud, bringing together the world’s best-in-class solutions for infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, digital experience monitoring, synthetic monitoring, log investigation and incident response.

    Source: Conquer Complexity at Any Scale With the New Splunk Observability Cloud | Splunk

    That makes a total of 3 clouds in Splunk’s portfolio, notes ConstellationR’s Holger Müller: