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April 2024

Overcoming scale challenges with AWS & CloudFront - 5 key takeaways

The Ably service handles massive amounts of data throughput and concurrent connections for many customers while maintaining a highly reliable and available service, with a 5x9s uptime guarantee. Ably has no scale ceiling, and that’s challenging work (it’s one of the reasons I joined Ably). While the challenges we face in delivering our service are compelling, we sometimes face novel internet scale problems, such as breaching the limits of AWS services!

Serverless GPUs in Private Preview: L4, L40S, V100, and more

Today, we’re excited to share that Serverless GPUs are available for all your AI inference needs directly through the Koyeb platform! We're starting with GPU Instances designed to support AI inference workloads including both heavy generative AI models and lighter computer vision models. These GPUs provide up to 48GB of vRAM, 733 TFLOPS and 900GB/s of memory bandwidth to support large models including LLMs and text-to-image models.

A Software Engineer's Tips and Tricks #2: Template Databases in PostgreSQL

Hey there! We're back for our second edition of Tips and Tricks. As we said in our first post on Drizzle ORM, our new Tips and Tricks mini blog series is going to share some helpful insights and cool tech that we've stumbled upon while working on technical stuff. Today, we're going to talk about the template databases of PostgreSQL. Remember, these posts will be super short reads. If you don’t like the topic of one of the posts, no problem! Just skip it and check out the next one.

What are LLMs? An intro into AI, models, tokens, parameters, weights, quantization and more

To keep up with everything happening in the world of artificial intelligence, it helps to understand and grasp key terms and concepts behind the technology. In this introduction, we are going to dive into what is generative AI, looking at the technology and models they are built on. We'll discuss how these models are built, trained, and deployed into the world.

A Software Engineer's Tips and Tricks #1: Drizzle

Hey there! At Koyeb, we really like diving into technical stuff. But here’s the thing: not every cool thing we stumble upon or think about needs a massive blog post. And honestly, not everything we’re into is directly related to what Koyeb does or about infrastructure in general. So, we’ve got an idea: what if we start sharing these bits and pieces with you in a series of really short blog posts?

What is a Microapp: An Emerging Trend

The microapp trend is on the rise! In the approximately two years since joining the DreamFactory team, I’d estimate I’ve conversed with more than one thousand companies about their API-based projects. These conversations provide a great opportunity to peer inside the IT operations of organizations large and small, not to mention pick up on emerging technology trends.

Applications and benefits of cloud computing in healthcare

The healthcare sector is undergoing a remarkable wave of innovation, especially due to the integration of cloud computing in healthcare. From solidifying security to enhancing predictability, and improving performance, this transformation is touching every facet of the world while also supporting business transformation. The implementation of cloud computing in the healthcare sector has fundamentally transformed how medical data is generated, accessed, stored, and exchanged.

How to Securely Connect Confluent Cloud with Services on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

The rise of fully managed cloud services fundamentally changed the technology landscape and introduced benefits like increased flexibility, accelerated deployment, and reduced downtime. Confluent offers a portfolio of 80+ fully managed connectors that enables quick, easy, and reliable integration of Confluent Cloud with popular data sources and sinks, connecting your entire system in real time.

toddl.co: Spain's Leading Platform for Extra-Curricular Activities Deploys 10x Faster with Koyeb

toddl.co is an all-in-one booking platform for kids' activities in Spain. Offering more than 2,000 classes, camps, and events to over 17,000 monthly visitors, toddl.co is on a mission to help parents navigate the complex world of extra-curricular activities and to help activity organizers manage and grow their businesses. For businesses, toddl.co streamlines bookings, payments, and client management. This year, toddl.co plans to serve over 15,000 businesses and 50,000 families.

Data Wizardry: Excel's Snowflake Integration

Combining the impressive cloud storage capabilities of Snowflake with the robust and versatile processing tools of Microsoft Excel is the type of data wizardry that can deliver incredible results. By leveraging these two powerhouses, developers can tap into unparalleled data analysis, visualization, and reporting, transforming raw data into insightful decisions with ease.

Snowpark Unleashed: Data Magic Within Snowflake

In the cloud data platform environment, Snowflake has carved out its place as a scalable, flexible, and efficient solution. At the heart of its offering is an ecosystem designed to meet the diverse needs of modern businesses. This includes everything ranging from data storage and analysis to complex data science projects. Snowflake simplifies these data operations and provides a robust foundation for innovation and growth.

Deploying Microfrontends on AWS: A Guide for Developers

If you are new to Microfrontends architecture, it’s a modern approach for splitting the frontend of your application into multiple components, so it’s easier to code and manage. We’ve actually got a separate article, introducing the concept, which you can read here. Or, if you’ve already read that introduction and now want to go a step further, just read on.

Cloudera Named a Visionary in the Gartner MQ for Cloud DBMS

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Cloudera as a Visionary among all vendors evaluated in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems. This recognition underscores Cloudera’s commitment to continuous customer innovation and validates our ability to foresee future data and AI trends, and our strategy in shaping the future of data management.

Bidirectional Data Sharing Between Snowflake and Salesforce Data Cloud Is Now Generally Available

Snowflake and Salesforce are happy to share that bidirectional data sharing between Snowflake, the Data Cloud company and Salesforce Data Cloud is now generally available. In September, we proudly announced that organizations could begin leveraging Salesforce data directly in Snowflake via zero-ETL data sharing to unify their customer and business data, accelerate decision-making and help streamline business processes.