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Charmed Kubeflow 1.9 enters general availability with new support for GenAI

Kubeflow 1.9. Kubeflow is a fully open source MLOps platform, part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation project. Canonical is one of the project’s official distributors, ensuring security maintenance of the container images, tight integration with the wider AI/ML ecosystem, and delivering enterprise support and managed services. The latest release offers new features related to GenAI, enabling organisations to run any new initiative in production.

Product Release Notes July 2024

For years, CloudZero has been a leader in the cloud cost allocation space, a statement supported by the fact that we remain the only cloud cost management platform to have received SOC1 Type 2 certification for our extreme accuracy when it comes to allocation and financial reporting capabilities. To quote our co-founder in the 2022 blog post listed above, “Quite simply, we organize cloud spend better than anyone else in the world.” Even so, we’re always looking to iterate and improve.

How to test AWS managed services with Gremlin

Note In this blog, we use “managed service providers” to refer to companies that provide hosted computing services, not managed IT service providers (MSPs). ‍ When was the last time you thought about the reliability of your cloud dependencies? The biggest challenge with using cloud platforms and SaaS services is also its biggest strength: the provider controls everything.

The Secret To Blazing Fast Docker Builds

It's not an understatement to say Dockerfiles are the underpinning of modern DevOps. Writing a simple Dockerfile that 'works' is relatively straightforward, but there are several tricks and tips that could significantly improve the build speed and efficiency of your container images. If your current Dockerfiles copy in multi gigabyte contexts, reinstall dependencies on every build, or use only a single stage, we need to talk.

Are you testing for known reliability vulnerabilities?

Are you testing for known reliability vulnerabilities? "Risks have different priorities, but ultimately we want to be aware of those risks. Just like we want our security team to go scan for known vulnerabilities, our reliability team should be scanning for known vulnerabilities. And those are easy things we should go address. There's a second part of it, which is kind of just good engineering testing, which is: Hey, we have a set of test cases that we know need to pass.

Service-Centric Cross-Cloud Network demo - AWS and Google Cloud

This demo showcases the capabilities of the Cross-Cloud Network. See how customers running on another cloud provider can, securely access services hosted on Google Cloud over a private Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection using Cross-Cloud Network products Speaker: Ishita Mehta-Desai, Network Specialist.

MySQL String Functions in Action

What’s so special about MySQL? Why do most developers choose this relational system for managing databases? MySQL is widely used primarily because it’s based on the Structured Query Language (SQL), which is a perfect fit for accessing and handling records. Additionally, MySQL attracts users with its scalability and robust performance. This post will focus on another advantage that should be mentioned to highlight the value of MySQL.