Tag: Amazon
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them
Amazon Web Services relies on the AWS IAM service to govern who is authenticated and authorized to use AWS resources. It plays a hugely significant role in AWS security–and so do its ...
Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Marcin Kolny, microservice, microservice architecture, microservices, microservices architecture, microservices pros and cons, microservices vs. monoliths, monolith, monolithic, monolithic applications, monolithic apps, monolithic method, Monoliths, monoliths pros and cons, monoliths vs. microservices, scalable microservices architecture, scaling microservices, serverless, serverless architecture, serverless computing, serverless computing framework, serverless technology, The Long View, Werner VogelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability ...
Open Source Communities Need More Than Funding From Big Tech
In recent years, major players like Microsoft, Amazon and Google have increased their involvement in open source projects, providing both financial and technical support. More consistent contributions from big tech—whether in the ...
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, careers, DevOps careers, layoffs, linux, Linux 6.3, tech layoffs, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, AWS, Bloom Energy, CO2 emissions, data center, data centers, datacenter, gpl, Green data center, LGPL, open source licensing, The Long View, voice.aiIn this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
Richi Jennings | | ai, Amazon, deep learning, floating point, FP8, inference, layoffs, microsoft, ml, recession, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going ...
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon S3, AWS, Everybody wants to be famous—but nobody wants to do the work, framework, frameworks, job hopping, job search, microsoft, Russia, salary, Snowball Edge, The Long View, Ukraine, windowsIn this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs ...
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Apple, AWS, azure, Department of Defense, DoD, google, Google Cloud Platform, Hybrid Work environment, IaaS, JEDI, JWCC, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Oracle Cloud Platform, Remote work, Remote Worker, remote workers, remote workforce, remote working, The Long View, WFH, work from home, working at home, working from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option ...
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, ARM, AWS, AWS Lambda, FaaS, Graviton3E, hiring, HPC, java, SnapStart, The Long View, The unexamined life is not worth livingIn this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story ...
3 New WFH and Hybrid Work Trends That YOU Need to Grok
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, facebook, freestyle friday, Hybrid Work environment, Many a true word hath been spoken in jest, Meta, relocation, Remote work, The Long View, Tulsa, WFHIn this week’s The Long View, a remote/hybrid work special: Bribes to relocate you, Fridays are forgotten, and big tech firms stop building offices ...
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
Richi Jennings | | ai, Amazon, Apple, devops salary, Elon Musk, fakers, machine learning, microsoft, recurring revenue, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double ...
Analyzing SRE Job Postings
You can find plenty of high-level definitions out on the internet about what site reliability engineering means and what site reliability engineers do. But if you want to understand what it’s actually ...
