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PlanetScale Leaps Into AI: New Vector Searching Efforts in MySQL

PlanetScale is adding vector searching to MySQL. This will bring new AI/ML opportunities to technology teams that use the Oracle-owned database. Vectors provide new use cases, from geographic searching to AI applications. Other well-known databases have already made significant progress, while MySQL lacked development. PlanetScale saw the lack of progress from Oracle and saw an opportunity to contribute to the ecosystem. (source) PlanetScale Announces New Efforts to Bring Vector Searching to MySQL (more…)

Deploy a Monorepo in App Runner: AWS New Repository Support

Deploy a monorepo in AWS App Runner. AWS announced this new feature for source code repos on October 28th. This new feature allows developers to manage several web & microservice applications from a single code repository. (source) Using AWS App Runner to Deploy an App from a Monorepo Do you want to stop maintaining dozens of repositories and migrate to a single monorepo? Many app development teams want to migrate to this style of operation. Instead of managing access, pipelines, etc for X amount of individual repos, all services & applications are managed in a single repository. But that is a pipedream for most app organizations without expertise in platform dev. Most of the platform as a service provider only allows for a single app per repo. Push the code to the repo, and the provider deploys the code to a single app. Simple, but limiting. AWS is trying to…

Automate MSK Topics to S3 Data Lake: New AWS Delivery Service

Automate AWS MSK Kafka topics from MSK into your S3 Data Lake. AWS announced a new managed delivery service from MSK to your S3 data lake on Oct. 27 2023. This new managed service can pull topics from Kafka and dump them into S3 buckets via Kinesis Firehouse. There are no additional pipes, functions or code required. (source) Are you tired of building pipes and serverless functions to move data around? AWS's new fully managed delivery stream will handle the pipes from your topics into your S3 data lake via Kinesis. You don't have to write and manage additional code. There are also no additional costs for this managed pipeline as it is built into the output of your MSK cluster. The new feature is designed to ease data flow from MSK to S3 Data Lake, leveraging Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for the Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tasks. This noteworthy…

AWS App Runner Default Auto-Scaling Configurations + Versions

AWS App Runner now offers default and versioned auto-scaling configurations as first-class citizens as of September 22, 2023. This update will help improve managing infrastructure environments in the service, yet the journey to becoming a seasoned tool for web application developers continues(source) AWS App Runner Default Auto-Scaling Configurations (ASC) with Versions My journey with AWS App Runner has been akin to watching a prodigy mature, showcasing flashes of brilliance while stumbling through inherent adolescent hiccups. As a web application developer, I've found solace in App Runner's ease of deploying containerized web applications and APIs. The allure of offloading the infrastructure management burden while sailing the waters of automatic scaling based on traffic dynamics is hard to resist. Yet, like any evolving tool, it had its share of teething problems, particularly in the realm of Auto-Scaling Configuration (ASC) management. The dawn of September 22, 2023, brought with it a breeze of…

Netlify SDK Launch: Looking in the New Software Development Kit

Netlify now offers an SDK for application developers. This software development kit supports partners who want to integrate applications into the Netlify ecosystem. On September 13, Netlify rolled out its much-anticipated Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK claims to speed up the time to production, simplify cross-functional collaboration, and ramp up productivity. It's like Netlify threw a party for efficiency, but did everyone on the guest list show up? (original source) Feature Rollout: Here are some of the standout features of the Netlify SDK: Integration Connectors: Makes hooking up with other platforms a less arduous affair. Build Event Handlers: A tool to control the chaos of build processes, somewhat like having a good traffic cop at a busy intersection. API Handlers: Aims to make API interactions less of a ball and chain for your applications. Integration UI: A user-friendly interface that promises to not have you tearing your hair out.…

AWS CodePipeline + Gitlab: Deploy Apps into the Cloud

Deploy Apps into the Cloud with AWS CodePipeline & Gitlab As of August 14, 2023, you can deploy your web applications from Gitlab repository into AWS using CodePipeline. (Source) For web app developers accustomed to managing their code on GitLab, the journey from code to cloud within the AWS ecosystem has often been a topic of exasperation. The absence of a direct connection between GitLab and AWS CodePipeline was not just a hindrance but a substantial bottleneck to efficient deployments. Yet, this has changed. Starting on August 14, 2023, AWS unrolled an official integration between CodePipeline and GitLab, a move set to quell the long-standing deployment qualms. Here’s a detailed unpacking of what this means for you and how it's poised to ease your deployment journey. Bridging the Deployment Divide Let’s wind the clock back to the times prior to this update. You had your code ready on GitLab, and…