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| Cloud Backed SQLite ✅ |
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| The cloud back-end SQLite (CBS) system allows databases to be stored within a cloud storage account, enabling reading and writing to the database without first downloading the entire database. The system supports concurrent access to the database by multiple clients and provides APIs for managing concurrent access. |
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| 8 Terraform continuous validation use cases for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure |
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| Continuous validation is a foundational feature for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Plus, providing long-term visibility and checks for infrastructure health and security. Users can create assertions to monitor configurations and modules, receive notifications for failed assertions, and proactively identify and resolve issues. |
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| Azure access from GitHub and GitLab pipelines - without secrets |
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| Federate credential workload identity federation allows CICD pipelines in GitHub and GitLab to access Azure subscriptions without storing credentials in pipeline configurations. GitHub Actions can handle this transparently and GitLab can supply the necessary token directly in the pipeline run. |
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| Cloud Expenditure - A Storm is Brewing |
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| Expenditure on cloud computing services reached $225 billion in 2022, prompting organizations to implement FinOps frameworks and address the root causes of rising costs, such as complex pricing, lack of understanding, and unpredictability. Specifically, the use of Kubernetes has contributed to cloud resource wastage due to over-provisioning and simplistic resource allocation models. |
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| A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI Models on Azure: ResNet with MLPerf Training v3.0 |
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| Azure's MLPerf Training v3.0 submission showcased their ND H100 v5 virtual machine, featuring 8x NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs with advanced technologies like NVSwitch and NVLink 4.0, Quantum-2 CX7 InfiniBand, 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and high-speed interconnects. Replicating the results in Azure requires setting up the virtual machine, downloading the necessary container and code, obtaining the ImageNet dataset, and running the ResNet benchmark using the provided configuration file. |
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| Automating Custom VM Image Creation with Azure Image Builder and Azure DevOps |
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| Developer automates the process of creating custom virtual machine images using the Azure Image Builder feature, eliminating the need for manual provisioning and configuration. This automation process involves defining resources in Azure, customizing the virtual machine image, and building the final image using Azure Image Builder. |
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| How to handle Large Objects (LOBs) migration from Db2, Oracle to Azure SQL & Datalake |
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| Database modernization from Db2 and Oracle tables with LOB datatypes to Azure SQL PaaS offering (DB / MI) or SQL Server provides an opportunity to optimize databases by storing LOB data as Azure Datalake storage blob objects. This approach reduces maintenance time, offers flexibility in backup, disaster recovery, and storage tiers, and significantly reduces the size of the SQL database. |
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| Starting HPC Worker Processes at Boot Time in VM Scale Sets |
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| One is deploying an HPC embarrassingly parallel application in Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSSs) and realized that (i) ssh into VM instances is possible even when they have not been fully provisioned and (ii) worker processes start before such provisioned state is reached. If you got into this situation, this blog post may be relevant to you. |
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