Spotify has introduced new products and services for companies adopting Backstage, its open-source framework for building internal developer portals, with the aim of enhancing developer experience and productivity.
In early 2023, Klarna introduced monthly fees for Klarna Cards in the US. This was managed by a manually intensive system developed by two teams. Over several months, the system saw little improvement or automation. Recognizing the unsustainability of the approach, Klarna introduced a new initiative that used AWS Step Functions to automate the process. It orchestrated multiple AWS services into serverless workflows, which significantly reduced maintenance burden and improved system reliability.
This article outlines strategies for machine learning monitoring model performance, including evaluating prediction accuracy, detecting drift, and addressing data processing pipeline issues, emphasizing the importance of continuous monitoring to ensure stable and performant ML-powered services.
Grafana Labs has unveiled new Synthetic Monitoring capabilities in Grafana Cloud, providing tools to simulate complex transactions and user journeys and enhance the user experience.
This article details Discord's journey in improving the visual quality and performance of the Go Live feature. It covers how to tackle issues with key frames, low-quality key frames, and frame dropping.
This is the latest blog post in a series on autoscaling infrastructure, which discusses the transition from using Clusterman to Karpenter. The post highlights the adoption of attribute-based instance selection in AWS Auto Scaling Groups. This approach has significantly improved infrastructure reliability and cost-effectiveness by allowing dynamic, attribute-based selection of EC2 instances, reducing operational overhead and facilitating a smoother migration to AWS Karpenter.
run0, a sudo replacement that will be introduced in systemd 256, eliminates setuid permissions for privileged commands, aiming for a security approach more suited to 2024 standards.
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities of managing stateful applications across multiple clusters using Karmada and considers how to improve multi-cloud and multi-cluster management.