Amazon EC2 G6 instances, powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, are now generally available. These instances provide up to 2x higher performance for deep learning inference and graphics workloads. G6 instances feature up to 8 GPUs, third-generation AMD EPYC processors, and up to 7.52 TB of local NVMe SSD storage.

AWS is renaming AWS CodeStar Connections to AWS CodeConnections in APIs, CLI, SDK, and documentation. Existing connections will continue to work, but changes to IAM policies are needed to use the new resource names. AWS CodeConnections integrates with Git-based source providers like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for repository events and code deployment.

Foundation DNS is Cloudflare's latest offering for enterprise customers, featuring advanced nameservers, unique DNSSEC keys, and GraphQL-based analytics. This new release aims to enhance reliability, security, flexibility, and analytics for authoritative DNS services. Customers can seamlessly transition to Foundation DNS without downtime.

Boost software development productivity by 50x, as highlighted at AWS re:Invent expo. GenAI features focus on improving developers' productivity by reducing toil and costs. CodeWhisperer tool aims to enhance developer engagement and code quality, impacting team health and wellbeing metrics.

Gartner highlights platform engineering as a strategic technology trend for the coming year, aiming to improve developer experience and productivity. The approach involves application, platform, and infrastructure layers for modern application delivery. The platform layer emphasizes offering "X as a Service" and a developer portal as abstractions over the digital platform.

A GitHub engineer shared how GitHub Copilot helped in automating tasks like finding project dependencies and creating regular expressions. Using Copilot saved significant time on these tasks, making development more efficient. Other team members also shared how Copilot improved their workflows, from troubleshooting to learning new programming languages.

Ever since the author started using Nix for development, the project relied on external services like databases and message brokers, leading to the use of Docker. However, to simplify the setup and reduce system resource consumption, the author decided to replace Docker with Nix in the project. A new solution, services-flake, was introduced to manage project-specific services natively and cross-platform. This solution addressed the need to run multiple instances of the same service and ensured data locality for each service.

The author moved away from using Vagrant due to performance issues, opting to explore alternatives like Nix/devenv. While containers were considered, they were not ideal for development due to usability issues. WSL was tested as a potential solution but faced challenges with managing services.

The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles proves that mainframes and DevOps can coexist, servicing millions of users while adopting agile development processes. Modernizing Adabas and Natural programming language allows the DMV to integrate with back-end services and automate testing. Despite cultural challenges, the shift to agile has resulted in faster delivery and increased satisfaction among customers and employees.

"Assume the best of your colleagues, strive for quality, and be kind. Remember, everyone is human and does not have all possible information available at all times." Being a tester requires continuous learning, embracing the testing mindset, and thinking critically about the work. Find support and opportunities in thriving testing communities and develop empathy to build trust within your team.

Shell terminal history can be a personal knowledge vault. Optimizing your shell history configuration can boost productivity. Using Zsh can achieve similar results to Bash.

Back to the basics of Git.

Pros and cons of the different methods you can use on AWS to deploy containers.

A cloud native implementation for Apache Kafka, reducing your cloud infrastructure bill by up to 90%.

The most useful multipurpose web application to perform labs and tests in a container environment!

Woodpecker is a simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

Clean up Kubernetes yaml and json output to make it readable

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