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What you would usually use a front end framework for can now be achieved with CSS and occasional sprinkles of vanilla JavaScript. How is this related to cloud infrastructure and devops? Well, lack of framework means simpler builds, faster delivery and less moving pieces, dependency management and maintenance: https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/
What you would usually use a front end framework for can now be achieved with CSS and occasional sprinkles of vanilla JavaScript. How is this related to cloud infrastructure and devops? Well, lack of framework means simpler builds, faster delivery and less moving pieces, dependency management and maintenance: https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/
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What does it take to crawl 1 billion pages in 2025? On AWS, following the architecture the author came up with: 25 hours; $500 and 12 EC2 instances. Check out the full article to see how: https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/crawler.html
What does it take to crawl 1 billion pages in 2025? On AWS, following the architecture the author came up with: 25 hours; $500 and 12 EC2 instances. Check out the full article to see how: https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/crawler.html
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This is seriously cool stuff that will simplify certificate management a lot and remove at least one component from your K8s clusters: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
This is seriously cool stuff that will simplify certificate management a lot and remove at least one component from your K8s clusters: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
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This is great, we don’t need to make everyone install extra tooling required to open up console sessions to our containers: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/09/ecs-exec-aws-management-console/
This is great, we don’t need to make everyone install extra tooling required to open up console sessions to our containers: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/09/ecs-exec-aws-management-console/
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As always, major Postgres releases bring a load of new features and improvements. Tudor Golubenco from Xata does a great job of giving us an overview together with practical examples: https://xata.io/blog/going-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-postgres-18-features
As always, major Postgres releases bring a load of new features and improvements. Tudor Golubenco from Xata does a great job of giving us an overview together with practical examples: https://xata.io/blog/going-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-postgres-18-features
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This is smart: use S3 to transfer big amounts of data between A and B, due to the way S3 is priced. Definitely useful for big migrations that would otherwise cost a lot of data egress fees: https://www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashing-data-transfer-costs/
This is smart: use S3 to transfer big amounts of data between A and B, due to the way S3 is priced. Definitely useful for big migrations that would otherwise cost a lot of data egress fees: https://www.bitsand.cloud/posts/slashing-data-transfer-costs/
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Numbers are impressive - the question is when we can get this as a default config, so that we don't need to activate this mode ourselves: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-seekable-oci-parallel-pull-mode-for-amazon-eks/
Numbers are impressive - the question is when we can get this as a default config, so that we don't need to activate this mode ourselves: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-seekable-oci-parallel-pull-mode-for-amazon-eks/
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Most famous use case for RDS Proxy is probably still "Lambdas", so it's nice to see a bit more traditional usage of this proxy, at scale: https://klaviyo.tech/pooling-connections-with-rds-proxy-at-klaviyo-e79e04120188
Most famous use case for RDS Proxy is probably still "Lambdas", so it's nice to see a bit more traditional usage of this proxy, at scale: https://klaviyo.tech/pooling-connections-with-rds-proxy-at-klaviyo-e79e04120188
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It’s features like this, not more Bedrock stuff, that makes us excited about AWS again: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-ebs-volume-clones-create-instant-copies-of-your-ebs-volumes/
It’s features like this, not more Bedrock stuff, that makes us excited about AWS again: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-ebs-volume-clones-create-instant-copies-of-your-ebs-volumes/
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An entertaining (but probably not for everyone) walk through how environment variables work: https://allvpv.org/haotic-journey-through-envvars/
An entertaining (but probably not for everyone) walk through how environment variables work: https://allvpv.org/haotic-journey-through-envvars/