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Datadog’s first State of Cloud Costs report highlights key factors influencing cloud expenses, such as resource utilization and emerging technologies 

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TLDR DevOps 2024-09-23

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News & Trends

How Meta Is Reinforcing its Global Network for AI Traffic (5 minute read)

Meta's network team began addressing the unexpected surge in traffic from AI demands in 2022, as AI-related data and GPU usage significantly increased, creating new challenges for its vast global network. To manage this, Meta has optimized its network for AI data movement and developed specialized infrastructure for large language models, while also planning further expansion to handle future demands.
Datadog's key learnings from the State of Cloud Costs study (4 minute read)

Datadog's first State of Cloud Costs report highlights key factors influencing cloud expenses, such as resource utilization and emerging technologies, and offers strategies for cost optimization. The report recommends using Datadog to reduce wasted container spend, migrate to modern AWS services, manage cross-AZ data transfer costs, and leverage commitment-based discounts to enhance cloud cost efficiency.
Now available: Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances (4 minute read)

AWS has launched Graviton-4-powered X8g instances, which offer up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and 192 vCPUs, delivering superior energy efficiency, price performance, and enhanced security features. They are ideal for Electronic Design Automation, in-memory databases, and real-time analytics.
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Opinions & Tutorials

Configuring Vault as an identity provider (12 minute read)

Enhance your application's user authentication security and efficiency by configuring HashiCorp Vault as an OpenID Connect (OIDC) Identity Provider, leveraging its capabilities for managing secrets and issuing secure JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) through streamlined identity workflows.
Boosting ML Pipeline Efficiency: Direct Cassandra Ingestion from Spark (7 minute read)

Yelp's implementation of direct feature publication to Cassandra from Spark, which bypasses intermediate data stores, has resulted in significant ML infrastructure cost savings and improved engineering efficiency.
How we use Lakera Guard to secure our LLMs (6 minute read)

Dropbox has integrated Lakera Guard to bolster the security of its AI-powered features, addressing vulnerabilities in large language models through robust monitoring, low latency, and in-house deployment and ensuring user data protection and maintaining trustworthiness.
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Resources & Tools

Does OpenTelemetry work with [Java / Rust / Kubernetes / Node / …]? (Sponsor)

Is OpenTelemetry stable and mature enough to use with Java? How is the Python implementation? And how about serverless - ready to go, or still something of an adventure? Find all the answers in this regularly-updated list (last updated September 2024). View the latest version on the Honeycomb.io blog (ungated)
readme.so (GitHub Repo)

readme.so is an intuitive online editor designed to help developers effortlessly create, customize, and download README files for their projects.
IntelOwl (GitHub Repo)

IntelOwl is an open-source solution for managing threat intelligence at scale that integrates multiple online analyzers and cutting-edge malware analysis tools to provide detailed threat data about malware, IP addresses, and domains through a single API request.
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Miscellaneous

Komodor Adds Generative AI Tool to Simplify Kubernetes Management (2 minute read)

Komodor has introduced Klaudia, a generative AI agent based on Anthropic's Claude 3.5, to help IT teams manage Kubernetes clusters by automatically detecting issues and suggesting solutions. Klaudia reduces the expertise required, easing Kubernetes management and improving efficiency, but AI tools will still rely on human oversight for final decisions.
Meet DAVE: Discord's New End-to-End Encryption for Audio & Video (10 minute read)

Discord is excited to announce the rollout of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for voice and video calls, enhancing security and privacy for its 200 million monthly users with the new "DAVE" protocol.
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Quick Links

OpenMetrics is archived, merged into Prometheus (2 minute read)

The OpenMetrics project has been archived and integrated back into Prometheus, from which it originally emerged.
AWS WAF Bot Control Managed Rule Group expands bot detection capabilities (1 minute read)

AWS WAF has launched a new version of its Bot Control Managed Rule Group, offering enhanced features like token reuse detection across ASNs and locations, customizable sensitivity levels, and expanded bot categories.
Introducing Netflix's Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer (13 minute read)

Netflix's robust global backend infrastructure, which hinges on services like the Key-Value (KV) Data Abstraction Layer (DAL) for efficient data access and reliability, leverages multiple distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra, addressing challenges such as consistency and performance by abstracting complexities and optimizing operations to deliver seamless streaming experiences.

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