Simplyblock Byte – Issue 2024-08/1
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High Data Access-Latency on Cloud Storage is no more
Using persistent storage on cloud providers comes in two flavors, storage local to the instance and remotely attached storage. Both have their pros and cons with the typical trade-off between access latency and capacity. Simplyblock combines the best of both worlds without the downsides. Learn more
Your Rockset migration supercharged by simplyblock
By September 30th, Rockset, acquired by OpenAI on June 21st, will shutdown. There are alternatives and you should migrate as soon as possible. Simplyblock is here to guide you through the transition. Learn more
Image Recognition using Neural Networks: A Beginner’s Guide
Image recognition isn’t magic but a bunch of mathematics combined in a very sneaky fashion. Using a simple beginner’s example this blog post explains the basics in a step-by-step fashion. Learn more
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Caretta is a lightweight, standalone tool that instantly creates a visual network map of the services running in your cluster. Learn more
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- pgmetrics 1.17: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmetrics-117-released-2898/
- Kafka 3.8.0: https://kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_kafka_380_release_announcement
- PgBouncer 1.23.1: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgbouncer-1231-released-2906/
- pgmoneta 0.13: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmoneta-013-2904/
- pgspot 0.8.0: https://github.com/timescale/pgspot/releases/tag/0.8.0
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Find the latest episodes of the Cloud Commute Podcast by simplyblock
Cloud Commute Episode 23
Michael Schwarz from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security talks about how the CacheWarp attack works and why, in the recent history, so many modern CPUs have hardware issues. Watch now
Cloud Commute Episode 22
Hannes Ullman from bifrost security talks about how to use their tool, built upon AppArmor, to automatically create your own application firewall in Kubernetes. Watch now
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- Michael Freedman from Timescale
- Gwen (Chen) Shapira from Nile
- Bruno Borges from Microsoft
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Cloud Frontier Episode 1
Steven Renwick from Tilores talks about the beginning of Tilores as a spin-off of the German Credit Bureau, as well as his experience on raising money. Watch now
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