#CaseStudy - Karrot replaced its legacy recommendation system with a new scalable architecture powered by multiple AWS services! Read how they built it and what issues it addresses: bit.ly/3KNEfE4 #AWS #EventDrivenArchitecture #DistributedCache #ApacheKafka #InfoQ

AWS recently announced that the managed source control service AWS CodeCommit is again generally available and that new features, including Git Large File Storage, will be added early in 2026. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...

A recent report by @percona.bsky.social has analyzed the repository statistics of the hashtag#MySQL server to evaluate the project's status, Oracle's commitment to MySQL, and the future of the community edition. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...

AWS has introduced EC2 instance attestation, a new security feature that enables customers to verify that their virtual machines are running approved software configurations in a cryptographically secure manner. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...

@planetscale.com recently announced the general availability of its managed sharded Postgres service, built for performance and reliability on AWS or Google Cloud. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...

Cloudflare recently implemented the node:http client and server APIs in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to migrate existing Node.js applications to the serverless platform. These HTTP APIs enable frameworks such as Express.js and Koa.js to run on Workers. www.infoq.com/news/2025/09...

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AWS recently announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, a new option for Oracle Exadata workloads, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), within AWS. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

Ahead of the @infoq.com Dev Summit in Munich, Markus Ostertag, Elena van Engelen-Maslova, Erik Steiger, and Katharine Jarmul discussed the European cloud dilemma in a recent "Sovereign Clouds, Hyperscalers and European Alternatives" podcast. www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

The engineering team at Cloudflare recently shared how they transitioned Quicksilver, their internal global key-value store, to a tiered caching architecture. My recap is today out on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

Last week, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast episode with speakers from the upcoming InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025. We discussed the practical challenges facing European developers caught between regulatory pressures and technological realities. www.infoq.com/podcasts/sov...

In a recent article from the engineering team behind the Zero Trust product suite, #Cloudflare explains why it chose TimescaleDB over ClickHouse to add analytics and reporting capabilities to its internal platform. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

At the recent AWS Summit in New York City, #AWS announced the preview of Amazon S3 Vectors, claiming to be the first cloud object store with native support for storing large vector datasets. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

#AWS has recently announced that Amazon S3 now supports sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

The Guardian has recently released Secure Messaging, a highly secure and user-friendly tool designed to protect journalistic sources by concealing the very fact that messaging is occurring. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

Atlassian recently migrated 4 million Jira databases to Amazon Aurora to reduce costs and improve the reliability of its Jira Cloud platform. My recap is out on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

#Cloudflare has announced the public beta of its new container service, enabling developers to run containers on its global network. www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

Expired SSL/TLS certificates are responsible for approximately 32% of web application downtime incidents. OK, I made that number up. Talking about certificates, #AWS announced exportable public SSL/TLS certificates from ACM. Here is my recap for @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

AWS has recently introduced Innovation Sandbox on AWS, a new open source solution for managing AWS sandbox environments through a web user interface. My recap is out on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

@mariadb.bsky.social Recently, MariaDB Community Server 11.8 was released as generally available, marking its yearly long-term support (LTS) release for 2025. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. #mariadb #rdbms www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

The recent article by Zhou Sun, "HTAP is Dead," sparked a debate in the data community about the future of hybrid transaction/analytical processing. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. #databases #htap www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

AWS recently launched the CDK Toolkit Library, making it easier for developers to work with the AWS CDK directly through code. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/06... #AWS #CDK #CloudDevelopmentKit #DevTools

Amazon has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible, serverless, and distributed database. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. #aws #rdbms #postgres www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has recently launched the beta of the European Vulnerability Database (EUVD), a new public platform operating alongside, but independently from, the widely used CVE system. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/06...

The OpenSearch Software Foundation has announced the general availability of OpenSearch 3.0, the first major release in three years and the first since the project joined the Linux Foundation. www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

Last month, Synadia threatened to pull NATS from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), moving from the Apache 2.0 license to a non-open source license. A recap of how the controversy unfolded is out on @isc.bsky.social www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

Redis 8 has recently hit general availability, switching to the AGPLv3 license. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

Rapid Storage, a new Cloud Storage zonal bucket designed to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

During the recent Developer Week 2025, @cloudflare.social announced the beta of global read replication for its serverless SQL database D1, providing a globally distributed option without sacrificing consistency. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/05...

During the recent Developer Week 2025, #Cloudflare announced the public beta of Cloudflare Secrets Store, a secure way to store API tokens, keys, and credentials. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

#Redis has recently announced the addition of Vector Set, a data type designed for vector similarity and a new option for AI applications. My recap is now available on @infoq.com. www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

#AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

@planetscale.com has recently announced that vector support is now generally available. Created as a fork of #MySQL, this new feature allows vector data to be stored alongside an application's relational MySQL data www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

During the recent #Cloudflare Security Week 2025, the cloud provider announced various improvements to its cybersecurity services and multiple reports analyzing trends and challenges in security threats. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/04...

Current geopolitical tensions have raised attention to existing cloud providers in Europe, with many European companies increasingly concerned about reliance on US-controlled services. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

AWS has launched Amazon GameLift Streams, a new managed service that enables developers to stream games directly to WebRTC-enabled browsers at up to 1080p and 60fps. This provides near-instant gameplay for AAA, AA, and indie titles without downloads. #aws #gaming www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

The team behind the distributed serverless database Fauna recently announced plans to shut down the service by the end of May. Is open source the future of FaunaDB? My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

Google has recently introduced tiered storage for Spanner, its distributed SQL database on Google Cloud. This tiered storage is based on a new HDD option 80% cheaper than the existing SSD option, allowing for cost optimization of older data. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

"Rather than enabling disruptive change, generative AI allows threat actors to move faster and at higher volume." Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently released a report on the adversarial misuse of generative AI. A recap on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

@vercel.com has recently introduced Vercel Fluid, an elastic compute model that allows a single worker to handle multiple requests, similar to a traditional server, while preserving the elasticity of serverless. My recap for @infoq.com is out today. www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

Using the analogy of addressing restaurant lunch rush, Michael Haken describes how Amazon builds well-behaved clients and well-protected services through operational and architectural strategies. My recap is out today on @infoq.com #awscloud www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

Amazon recently introduced the preview of garbage collection in the AWS CDK. The new feature automatically deletes old assets in bootstrapped S3 buckets and ECR repositories, reducing maintenance and deployment costs. More on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

Due to human error in handling a phishing report and insufficient validation safeguards in admin tools, #Cloudflare experienced an incident affecting its R2 Gateway service on February 5th. My recap for InfoQ is out today. #resilience #cloudcomputing www.infoq.com/news/2025/03...

A new ransomware campaign, dubbed Codefinger, has been targeting Amazon S3 users by exploiting compromised AWS credentials to encrypt data using Server-Side Encryption with Customer-Provided Keys (SSE-C). My recap for @infoq.com #awscloud #clodusecurity www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

#AWS recently introduced Availability Zone (AZ) awareness in version 1.2 of the open source #Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE) client library. My recap is out today on @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

ClickHouse recently shared its migration strategy to AWS Graviton over the past six months, reporting a 25% performance improvement for end users. My recap for @infoq.com #awscloud #clickhouse #arm www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

FerretDB has announced the first release candidate of version 2.0. Now powered by the recently released DocumentDB, FerretDB is an open-source alternative to MongoDB. My recap for @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident. www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

#Cloudflare recently published an article detailing their upgrade of developer documentation by migrating from Hugo to the #Astro ecosystem. All Cloudflare documentation is open source on GitHub, with opportunities for community contributions. My recap on InfoQ. www.infoq.com/news/2025/02...

Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Glue 5.0, designed to accelerate ETL jobs powered by Apache Spark. My recap for @infoq.com #dataengineering #etl #aws