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Public Cloud

Alibaba Cloud Launches Carbon Management Solution – Energy Expert

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced the global launch of Energy Expert, a sustainability platform to help customers worldwide measure, analyze and manage the carbon emissions of their business activities and products. The software-as-a-service offerings also provides actionable insights and energy saving recommendations to help customers accelerate their sustainability journeys. The initiative is aligned with Alibaba’s carbon neutrality pledge, which was unveiled last year. The company pioneered the “Scope 3 +” concept and has pledged to share its energy-efficient technologies with its customers and business partners, uniting them in their collective efforts to reduce…

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Technology

Alibaba Cloud Brings A Unique Tech-Fuelled Experience To Genting Skyworlds Theme Parks

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has collaborated with Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park to deploy the region’s first AI-powered Virtual Queue (VQ) solution that utilises the latest cloud-based technology to deliver seamless and engaging guest experiences through Genting SkyWorlds’ mobile app. Alibaba Cloud’s VQ Solution leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable more efficient crowd management and to reduce waiting time dynamically. VQ reservations use advanced AI algorithms and real-time intelligence from the ride wait time to throughput. Thissolution allows the operations team to better control crowd distribution and optimise ride capacity. With Alibaba Cloud’s tailored…

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Bio Farma Collaborates with Google Cloud and ‘ConnectedLife With Fitbit’ To Empower Healthier Living And Chronic Disease Prevention Across Indonesia

Bio Farma, the parent company of Indonesia’s pharmaceutical state-owned enterprises (SOEs), today announced that it is collaborating with Google Cloud, Fitbit, and ConnectedLife on a new digital health initiative called “Preventive Care Medwell,” in support of the government’s “Healthy Indonesia” blueprint and vision. Under this initiative, the organizations have developed “ConnectedLife with Fitbit,” a personalized wellness and population health virtual platform―the first of its kind locally―to empower Indonesians to take decisive steps toward healthier living and chronic disease prevention. ConnectedLife with Fitbit is built on Google Cloud’s open, scalable, and secure-by-design infrastructure and data services. The platform allows users to sync their health insights from…

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Software Engineering

Why Spark Chooses Volcano As Built-In Batch Scheduler On Kubernetes?

On June 16, 2022, Apache Spark released its new version, v3.3. The highlight of this version is that it provides framework support for customized Kubernetes schedulers and, for the first time, uses Volcano as the default batch scheduler. Spark users can now easily move from Hadoop to Kubernetes and achieve high performance on large-scale data analytics. Community Efforts This feature is initiated by developers from Huawei and jointly implemented by contributors from companies such as Apple, Cloudera, Netflix, and Databricks. Users are now able to use third-party scheduling plug-ins for customized scheduling. Spark + Volcano: Better Scheduling A Spark job…

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Programming

How To Secure Kubernetes Pods Post-PSPs Deprecation

Kubernetes pods are the basic building blocks of Kubernetes. It’s managing one or more tightly coupled application containers allowing them to share resources and networks. Pods are hosted on nodes, which are either physical or virtual machines. When defining a Pod we need to think not only about how much CPU or memory we want to assign to it but also about what would be the interaction between it and the underlying infrastructure. For example, we can allow a Pod to access all devices on the host, which might be a potential threat if someone gets inside of it. That’s why it’s…

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Colocated VMs Get In Each Other’s Way

TL;DR: Cloud providers can place multiple VMs of the same cloud customer on a shared physical host – a situation that is difficult to detect with conventional means, but readily apparent with Clockwork’s high precision measurements VM colocation has performance implications that are much more severe than simple shared tenancy When three or more VMs share the same physical host, the available network bandwidth per VM is impaired When workloads move to the cloud, the cloud operators use proprietary placement algorithms to map the requested virtual resources onto specific physical hardware in their data centers. While the cloud customer has…

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Programming

Announcing Vitess 14

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 14. Major Themes # In this new release, major improvements have been made in several areas of Vitess, including usability and reliability. Online DDL is now GA. Gen4 planner is the new default planner. VTAdmin and VTOrc are officially in beta with Vitess 14. Usability # Command-Line Syntax Deprecation # This release marks the beginning of Vitess standardizing its command-line and flags syntax. Some former syntaxes have been deprecated and will break in the next release. For details, as well as migration instructions, please refer to the release notes. VtctldServer and Client # The new gRPC…

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Technology

Huawei Awarded The World’s First Carbon Footprint Verification For Inverters Issued By BSI

Huawei was awarded the world’s first Carbon Footprint Verification (CFV) for solar inverter products issued by the British Standards Institution (BSI). A globally-renowned standards body, BSI is a special adviser to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and a producer of standards such as the world’s first carbon footprint standard PAS 2050. This CFV proves Huawei’s capability to evaluate the carbon footprint of products throughout their lifecycle and acknowledges Huawei’s efforts in reducing carbon emissions, increasing the share of renewable energy, and promoting circular economy. Huawei’s development concept — green, low-carbon, and sustainable — underpins the entire lifecycle…

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Programming

Independent Versioning Of Jetpack Compose Libraries

Starting today, the various Jetpack Compose libraries will move to independent versioning schemes. This creates the possibility for sub-groups such as androidx.compose.compiler or androidx.compose.animation to follow their own release cycles. Allowing these libraries to be versioned independently will decouple dependencies which were previously implicitly coupled, thereby making it easier to incrementally upgrade your application and therefore stay up-to-date with the latest Compose features. The first library to break away from the single Compose version is the Compose Compiler. Today we’re releasing the 1.2.0 stable version that brings support for Kotlin 1.7.0! The release is both backwards and forwards compatible with the Compose UI libraries and the Compose Runtime library. This means you can…

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Canonical Ubuntu Core 22 Is Now Available – Optimised For IoT And Embedded Devices

The ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications. 15 June 2022: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices, is now generally available for download from ubuntu.com/download/iot. Combined with Canonical’s technology offer, this release brings Ubuntu’s comprehensive and industry-leading operating system (OS) and services to a complete range of embedded and IoT devices. IoT manufacturers face complex challenges to deploy devices on time and within budget. Ensuring security and remote management at scale is also taxing as device fleets expand. Ubuntu Core 22 helps…

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