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Week 48 - Issue #55

AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts servers are on-premises compute and storage that is monitored and managed by AWS, and controlled by the same, familiar AWS APIs. The c6gd.16xlarge model supports six instance sizes, as follows: 2x 1.9 TB, 4x 4x 237 GB, 8 16 GiB 474 GB, 16 32 GiB 950 GB, 32 64 GiB 1.8 TB c6id.8xlarge supports all but the largest of the following instance sizes. Each Outposts server connects to the cloud via the public Internet or across a private AWS Direct Connect line.

Will JetBrains Fleet Be a VSCode Killer?

JetBrains has re-built its VSCode editor from scratch to compete with IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm. JetBrain's Fleet editor supports Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Javascript, Typescript, Rust, and Json languages. Jetbrains has added two modes to its editor: Editor-light, Editor-smart and Editor-Smart. Editor-Light editor will launch quickly and with no delay. Editor now supports natively connecting to a remote machine where our code is located.

AWS Redshift Serverless

Amazon Redshift Serverless is a new capability that makes it super easy to run analytics in the cloud with high performance at any scale. There is no need to set up and manage clusters, and you pay for the duration in seconds when your data warehouse is in use, for example, while you are querying or loading data. With the new serverless option, you can continue to query data in other AWS data stores, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service.

Will Nix Overtake Docker?

A reproducible environment is one that can be recreated from scratch in an identical way (ideally bit-for-bit) Practically, this means having the same tools, versions, and configuration between the environments. Nix provides a whole build system that allows for building packages in an isolated way. Docker doesn't have any guarantees that creating images is reproducible -- If you run docker build twice with the same Dockerfile you might get 2 images that behave in different ways. Nix takes a first-priniciples approach to reproducible builds and package management.

PHP Has Survived for 26 Years Because It Keeps Evolving

An influential developer in the open source PHP project, Nikita Popov, decided to move on, prompted the formation of a new foundation to run the project. The company JetBrains announced on its blog the creation of The PHP Foundation last week. The goal is to be “a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language” Among the newly announced partners for the new foundation is Automattic, the company behind WordPress. Despite moving somewhat toward JavaScript technologies over the past several years, WordPress is still reliant on PHP.

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