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Presentation: Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies From chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US
Durai Arasan explains the architectural strategies used to scale Chase.com to 67M+ active users. He discusses achieving high resilience through multi-region isolation, slashing latency by 71% via edge computing, and utilizing automated "infrastructure repaving" to eliminate security drift. He shares vital lessons on self-healing observability and building an engineering-first culture. By Durai Arasan
AWS Debuts “DevOps Agent” to Automate Incident Response and Improve System Reliability
AWS recently announced the public preview of AWS DevOps Agent, a new "frontier agent" that aims to help organizations react more quickly to production incidents, identify root causes, and proactively strengthen system reliability. By Craig Risi
Netflix Migrates to Amazon Aurora: 75% Performance Boost and 28% Cost Reduction
Netflix consolidated its relational databases onto Amazon Aurora, cutting costs by 28% and boosting performance by up to 75%. The move from self-managed PostgreSQL reduced operational toil, improving latency for critical apps. This mirrors migrations by Samsung and Panasonic, though benchmarks suggest alternatives like Timescale may suit specific workloads better. By Mark Silvester
AWS Transform Custom Tackles Technical Debt
AWS Transform Custom revolutionizes code modernization with AI-driven, out-of-the-box transformations for Java, Node.js, and Python. This enterprise-focused tool accelerates application upgrades by up to 5x while learning from organizational nuances to deliver high-quality, repeatable transformations. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
AlphaEvolve Enters Google Cloud as an Agentic System for Algorithm Optimization
Google Cloud announced the private preview of AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent designed to discover and optimize algorithms for complex engineering and scientific problems. The system is now available through an early access program on Google Cloud, targeting use cases where traditional brute-force or manual optimization methods struggle due to vast search spaces. By Robert Krzaczyński
Yelp Publishes Blueprint for Managing S3 Server-Access Logs at Massive Scale
In a detailed engineering post, Yelp shared how it built a scalable and cost-efficient pipeline for processing Amazon S3 server-access logs (SAL) across its infrastructure, overcoming traditional limitations of raw log storage and querying at high volume. By Craig Risi
Microsoft Introduces Postgres-Compatible Azure HorizonDB
During the recent Microsoft Ignite conference, the cloud provider announced the early preview of Azure HorizonDB, a managed Postgres-compatible database service for enterprise workloads. By Renato Losio
Presentation: Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova share Open GI's journey from a slow, legacy monolith to a cloud-native SaaS platform. They detail how adopting Team Topologies and a decentralized architectural approach empowered teams. Key practices discussed include utilizing Domain-Driven Design to create a Context Map, implementing the Advice Process with Architectural Principles, and more. By Peter Hunter, Elena Stojmilova
Google Cloud Demonstrates Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster
The team behind Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) revealed that they successfully built and operated a Kubernetes cluster with 130,000 nodes, making it the largest publicly disclosed Kubernetes cluster to date. By Craig Risi
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microservices-demo
Sample cloud-first application with 10 microservices showcasing Kubernetes, Istio, and gRPC.
Cloud-Free-Tier-Comparison
Comparing the free tier offers of the major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle etc.
neon
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
sealos
Sealos is an AI-native, application-centric cloud operating system that powers intelligent super applications. Set up development environments for any programming language or framework, deploy high-availability databases (like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB) and run any Docker image.