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September 9, 11:10 am

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HashiCorp is expanding its Terraform and Packer ecosystems with new integrations to streamline cloud and on-premises infrastructure management. 

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News & Trends

New infrastructure integrations with GitHub, Illumio, Palo Alto Networks, Tessell, and more (5 minute read)

HashiCorp is expanding its Terraform and Packer ecosystems with new integrations to streamline cloud and on-premises infrastructure management. It also introduced new AI-focused tools, added 16 verified Terraform providers, and released new HCP Packer integrations with GitHub and GitLab for enhanced automation and security.
Grafana 11.2 release: new updates for data sources, visualizations, transformations, and more (9 minute read)

Grafana 11.2 brings a host of updates including new data sources, enhanced visualizations and transformations, improved Grafana Alerting, and a migration assistant for moving to Grafana Cloud.
Grafana Tempo 2.6 release: performance improvements and new TraceQL features (4 minute read)

Grafana Tempo 2.6 offers significant performance enhancements and a host of new TraceQL features, including span events, span links, and native array support, all built on the upgraded vParquet4 backend.
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Opinions & Tutorials

Unified Grid: How We Re-Architected Slack for Our Largest Customers (18 minute read)

Slack redesigned its core architecture with the Unified Grid project to unify user experiences across multiple workspaces, improving performance and reducing bugs. Despite the challenges and risks, it successfully shifted from a workspace-centric model to an org-wide architecture.
Elevate Access Token Security by Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (10 minute read)

Elevate your token security with OAuth 2.0's Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (DPoP) technique, a new IETF standard supported by Okta that binds access tokens to specific client applications, mitigating misuse and cyber attacks.
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Miscellaneous

Google Cloud launches Memorystore for Valkey, a 100% open-source key-value service (3 minute read)

Google Cloud's Memorystore has launched Valkey 7.2, an open-source, high-performance key-value service, in response to growing customer demand for alternatives to Redis. Support for Valkey is now available alongside Redis in Memorystore. The service offers easy cluster creation, zero-downtime scaling, and compatibility with popular Redis clients. Valkey is a powerful solution for caching, session management, and real-time analytics.
AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits (1 minute read)

AWS WAF now allows customers to set rate-based rule thresholds as low as 10 requests per evaluation window, down from the previous minimum of 100. This provides more granular control for detecting and mitigating traffic spikes or malicious activity.
lucene: Uber's Search Platform Version Upgrade (11 minute read)

Uber's Search Platform team upgraded its in-house search engine from Lucene 7.5.0 to 9.4.2, enabling powerful semantic search capabilities, enhancing search accuracy, and achieving significant performance improvements, such as reduced CPU utilization and improved query latency.
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Quick Links

SUSE Combines StackState, Rancher for Kubernetes Observability (3 minute read)

SUSE has integrated StackState's full-stack observability platform into its Rancher Prime 3.1 service, enhancing cloud-native observability for enterprise IT teams.
Are You a Dalia? How We Created Data Science Personas for Spotify's Analytics Platform (5 minute read)

Spotify's Analytics Platform created six distinct data science personas by combining qualitative and quantitative research to better understand and serve their diverse data practitioner roles.
Improved Kubernetes Await Logic (8 minute read)

Pulumi Kubernetes v4.18.0 enhances resource readiness handling, introduces new annotations for faster deletions and custom readiness criteria, and provides improved error reporting to streamline complex workflow management.

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