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  • The Register: Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/rackspace_vmware_planet9_migration/ Source: The Register Title: Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills Feedly Summary: New home, Planet9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs Exclusive Rackspace is moving some of its back-office workloads off VMware and onto a platform called Private…

  • Irrational Exuberance: Our own agents with their own tools.

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    Source URL: https://lethain.com/our-own-agents-our-own-tools/ Source: Irrational Exuberance Title: Our own agents with their own tools. Feedly Summary: Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I…

  • Cloud Blog: How we improved GKE volume attachments for stateful applications by up to 80%

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gkes-faster-cluster-upgrades-under-the-hood/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How we improved GKE volume attachments for stateful applications by up to 80% Feedly Summary: If you run stateful workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you may have noticed that your Cluster upgrades execute much faster as of late. You’re not imagining things. We recently introduced an  enhancement…

  • Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2  Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

  • Cloud Blog: Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-a4-vms-powered-by-nvidia-b200-gpu-aka-blackwell/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Blackwell is here — new A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA B200 now in preview Feedly Summary: Modern AI workloads require powerful accelerators and high-speed interconnects to run sophisticated model architectures on an ever-growing diverse range of model sizes and modalities. In addition to large-scale training, these complex models…

  • Hacker News: MySQL at Uber (2025)

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    Source URL: https://www.uber.com/blog/mysql-at-uber/ Source: Hacker News Title: MySQL at Uber (2025) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides detailed insights into Uber’s extensive MySQL fleet architecture and operation controls, focusing on system availability, control plane redesign, and automation processes that enhance security and resilience at scale. This is particularly relevant…