Randall Hunt

I published my first Spring Boot library to Maven Central! It's a simple Cloudflare Turnstile Captcha integration for your Spring Boot App. Just a small first step, with larger projects coming soon! Check it out! https://lnkd.in/gtXgnHq4 #springboot #cloudflare #captcha

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🚀 Exciting news in the Rust and AWS communities! 🚀 On June 8th, Werner Vogels announced **distill CLI**, an efficient, Rust-powered tool for media summarization. 📜🔧 Check out his blog for more details: [Introducing Distill CLI](https://lnkd.in/dfUT4cmf) Notably, companies like Discord and Figma have achieved remarkable performance improvements by adopting Rust. Discord moved their Read States service from Go to Rust, resulting in a 10x speed increase and nearly 100x reduction in worst tail latencies. Similarly, Figma rewrote performance-sensitive parts of their multiplayer service in Rust, seeing a 6x reduction in peak average CPU usage per machine. 🌟💪 AWS is also embracing Rust with the general availability of Cargo support in CodeArtifact, enabling the storage of Rust libraries (crates) in CodeArtifact. 📦✨ More info: [AWS CodeArtifact and Cargo Support](https://lnkd.in/dYY_fgtU) As more customers leverage Rust for their critical workloads, AWS is providing robust building blocks. AWS Lambda, for instance, can now process HTTP events more efficiently with Rust. 🚀⚡️ Learn more here: [Rust HTTP Events in AWS Lambda](https://lnkd.in/diubf8bM) #RustLang #AWS #Serverless #Performance #CloudComputing #Innovation #TechNews #CodeArtifact #DistillCLI

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What a great time to sign the SCA between CockroachDB and AWS! Both technologies bring exceptional strengths to the table. CockroachDB’s unique globally distributed vector similarity search index, combined with the robust capabilities of the AWS platform and Bedrock, sets the stage for building resilient, high-speed Globally Distributed Generative AI applications. Excited to see how end-users will harness the power of these two to build innovative Gen AI applications #AWS + #CockroachDB

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In building robust, scalable distributed systems, it’s tempting to lean on events as a primary abstraction. But are they really the best approach? In this blog post I explore why events often fall short for complex systems and how a reimagined abstraction can simplify development and reduce failures: 👉 Covered topics * The pitfalls of an event-driven approach. * How durable execution offers a better path for distributed architectures. * Why this rethink could simplify and improve your distributed system. If you’re working with distributed systems, this article might just offer the perspective shift you need. #DistributedSystems #SoftwareArchitecture #EDA #Temporal #Rethink

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I've appreciated all the folks who have suggested I look at System Initiative this week. The great thing is, I've been tracking them for a bit now. I've even written about them and the other companies who are changing how we work, for the better. All the Next Wave companies are focused on context, helping teams navigate the current level of complexity, and preparing teams for what comes next. Huge believer in this problem and the companies that are solving it. Including my own. We're like dependabot for your entire technical stack. I don't know if you are aware but unplanned work is a big pain point for our Ops friends and it's only getting worse. So why not start with the small stuff no one has time to get to, Automate that away and give teams peace of mind while reducing toil. Don't worry Security, there will be checks and balances including an audit trail. It'll make staying in compliance a snap! All that to be said, SI's GA announcement is cool, and the approach of moving from a factory to a team. A pipeline to something more organic to manage infrastructure is timely. The team has worked hard and it shows in their GA offering! While you are checking out SI, I'd highly recommend checking out some of the other companies in the Next Wave of DevOps, if you haven't already. The number of companies is growing and the founding teams are passionate about this space and the problems. We are better together and all of the companies are amazing! + Anyshift.io + AppMap + CloudTruth + DryRun Security + Overmind + Prequel.dev + RunWhen + Stakpak + Stanza New companies are making the hard parts more approachable with our complex and ever-growing technical stacks. From code to deployment and everything in between #opservations

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“For Graeber, bullshit jobs carry with them a moral imperative: ‘If you’re not busy all the time doing something, anything—doesn’t really matter what it is—you’re a bad person.’ But the flipside of that logic seems to be: if you actually like doing X activity, if it is valuable, meaningful, and carries intrinsic rewards for you, it is wrong for you to expect to be paid (well) for it; you should give it freely, even (especially) if by doing so you are allowing others to profit. In other words, we’ll make a living from you doing what you love (for free), but we’ll keep you in check by making sure you have to make a living doing what you hate.” — Geoff Shullenberger, a writing professor at New York University I couldn't help thinking that here, the professor is describing, how “open source software” thing works. And then, I found: “The free software industry, perversely enough, has become a paradigm in this respect... software engineering work was divided between the interesting and challenging work of developing core technologies, and the tedious labor of ‘applying duct tape’ to allow different core technologies to work together, because the designers had never bothered to think about their compatibility. ... increasingly, open source means that all the really engaging tasks are done for free.” — David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs

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Customers often ask if Amazon Q Developer is only for Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads. The short answer is no. Our developer platform can add value to your on-premises development and multi-cloud needs, regardless of your platform. Our partners at Heroku have a great use case for this. Check out their blog post on how the Amazon Q Developer / Heroku integration simplifies their customer workflows.

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Video from my September DevOpsDays DC Ignite talk on "Strategically Handling Tech Debt in Your Platform" is live, along with videos from all the other talks. https://lnkd.in/enEXXxz4

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Microservices get a bad rap due to complexity and high TCO. A lot of that is because a microservice-based application works the same way as a bunch of dominoes falling. If one misses, or falls out of order, the whole workflow stops. And you have no control over the process once your microservices start ping-ponging events and RPC's back and forth. That's why #microservices are so expensive to manage. Great blog post below by Colt McNealy about how LittleHorse can solve those problems. Give it a read. https://lnkd.in/gJECBwRu

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Is your observability bill out of control? Are you wasting engineering time trying to justify the cost? There's a better solution… https://hubs.la/Q02PsJZM0 #kubernetes #devops #cloud #observability

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The best ideas can come from anywhere and are never initially a perfect "fit" for all of the problems they grow to solve over time. This behind-the-scenes write-up by Werner illustrates beautifully how incremental investments and ongoing learnings can lead to great things. (I say this as an engineering leader over front-end apps and large-scale backends that have rarely taken advantage of AWS's Lambda feature. But, even when our requirements are not best met by a specific platform, studying and learning from them always pays rich dividends. We all stand on one another's shoulders!) Enjoy the write-up. It's worth your time.

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#AWS #reInvent2024 is here. Come join Tim Honychurch and I for an exciting session on new governance capabilities. We’ll dive into two impactful policies – Declarative policies, debuting at re:Invent, and Resource control policies. You will learn how to define and enforce configuration using Declarative policies and the significance of Resource control policies. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬:   💡 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: COP378 New governance capabilities for multi-account environments  📅  𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 & 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: Tuesday, December 3, 2024, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM   📍 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Summit 232 #reInvent #AWSOrganizations #EC2 #CloudGovernance #Security

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With the announcement of S3-native-streams (Freight clusters), here is a commentary on Confluent strategy regarding object storage, streaming and an open data architecture. https://lnkd.in/dTg6DKVy

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In case you missed our session at #reInvent, the recording is now available here: https://lnkd.in/gCkXTYHf You will learn about all the exciting product announcements from #AWS on Amazon QuickSight and #CapitalOne’s approach and long-standing commitment to put data and intelligence at the fingertips of our business users and customers to drive better decisions

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🎃The October issue of #CheckpointChronicle is now out 🌟 It covers Ververica's Fluss, #ApacheFlink 2.0, Iggy.rs, Strimzi's support for #ApacheKafka 4.0, tons of OTF material from Jack Vanlightly, Christian Hollinger's write up of ngrok's data platform, nice detail of how SmartNews use #ApacheIceberg with Flink and #ApacheSpark, a good writeup from Sudhendu P. on #ApachePolaris, notes from Kir Titievsky 🇺🇦 on Kafka's Avro serialisers, and much more! https://lnkd.in/djc-HERy

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If you're interested in building Snowflake Native Apps then this session on May 28th will just be what you want to tune in for. Guy Adams and Jeff Hollan will demonstrate and talk about how easy building Native Apps can (and should) be and how to get the most value out of your Native Apps. In this session they will build a Cortex-powered Snowflake Native App into production in less than ten minutes! Oh, and just to increase the degree of difficulty, they’ll include a Streamlit app. And some Snowpark. And let’s include Snowpark Container Services and some UDFs for good measure. All in 10 minutes or less?! You will know what it's like to have all the power in your fingertips, using DataOps.live https://lnkd.in/e3fdMfx5 #dataopslive #truedataops #snowflake #snowflakenativeapps #nativeapps #dataengineering #snowflakesuperheroes

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New Relic is not only a recognized leader in Observability technology but continues to innovate by adding features with the specific "day in the life" of developers in mind. In this blog post I discuss a new feature designed to increase productivity and reduce risk for anyone charged with log file analysis. #Observability #newrelic #logmanagement #security #compliance

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