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Cloud news + analysis + trends. Architecture Design. Technology & Product Selection. Performance Management. Cost Optimization.

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Framework for measuring API strategy and success

Serverless abstraction causes users to grow out of touch with their deployments, which makes it difficult to keep the code “honest” to its infrastructural reality.

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Serverless testing: Lambda, App Runner, Step Functions

Tests with varying amounts of load and concurrency showed that direct integration from API Gateway to DynamoDB performed best for small and medium scale.

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Declarative infrastructure for configuration management at Spotify

Details about the declarative infrastructure platform on Kubernetes to support 3000+ GCP projects and 50,000+ resources

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Thoughtworks software development technology radar

Recommends adoption of product management practices for internal platforms, CI/CD IaaS, running cost as an indicator of architecture fitness

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How generative AI will evolve software development

Generative AI differs from other automation and ML tools in that it can shift the developer’s work to a higher, more abstract level

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Are enterprise technology architects still relevant today?

Architecture veteran Brian Chambers shares insights from his journey as an enterprise architect, and how to overcome the challenges of becoming rusty with code as a result of ‘living in waves’

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Asynchronous work, generative AI and layoffs

Is the tech industry at crossroads today? Diverse set of events have come together in rapid succession, and have far-reaching implications

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Transition to serverless: tips for architects

Design guidelines for introducing serverless into stateful apps, guide to selecting SRE team topologies and more

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How LinkedIn leveraged Apache Beam to reduce processing time

Google whitepaper on modern data strategy; Spotify's sequential testing approach. Other updates: application modernization challenges, GCP Pub/Sub schema evolution, Application Auto Scaling in AWS

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Next-gen AI, coming-of-age serverless

Vertex AI Google App Builder generative AI tools, Netflix media understanding platform, AWS cross-AZ transfer “tax”, EC2 security feature, sessions control in GCP

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Why cloud cost management #1 issue: report, solutions

Flexera cloud report 2023, Florence Foundation model, CNCF whitepaper on edge native principles, LLM training on SageMaker, Carnegie Mellon SEI Zero Trust tips, CNCF report on cloud adoption model

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NPW Insights (Free): Week 4 of 4 for Solution Architect

Google Threat Detection and Response report, open source security report, Telecom Data Fabric from Google Cloud, Amazon Timestream and Amazon Kinesis updates, AlloyDB goes global.

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NPW Insights (Free): Week 3 of 4 for Solution Architect

Azure .NET web pattern published, Document AI Workbench update, SageMaker real-time inference model MLOps, changing role of architects

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NPW Insights (Free): Week 2/4 for Solution Architect

Gregor Hohpe on cost impact of loose coupling, scaling media ML at Netflix, caching for Azure Container Registry, new services in AWS Step Functions, EKS Anywhere on Snow.

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NPW V2.0 for Solution Architect

Dataplex AutoDQ in preview, new performance metrics in AWS Lambda, Azure VMWare Solution updates