S3 Price Reductions 💰, Cloudflare Containers 🆕, Syncing Anything ➰

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR DevOps 2025-04-14 Northflank: A developer platform that lets you sleep at night (Sponsor) If you're reading this, odds are you're trying to ship a product and keep it running.  Infra's getting harder, apps are more complex, and you can't ship fast enough. You're buried in YAML & Terraform. There's a better way. Northflank gives you the right abstractions so your team can ship complex apps, from preview to prod, without cobbling together 15 tools. We make Kubernetes work for your developers, not the other way around. Deploy and scale any workload (services, GPUs, databases, jobs) on any cloud and on-prem. All your environments, from preview to production, with built-in CI/CD. First-class developer experience: UI, CLI, API, GitOps, and reusable templates. 🧠 "It's the ideal platform to deploy containers in our VPC, avoiding the brain damage of big cloud and Kubernetes." — David Cramer, Sentry Start for free (on your own), or get a demo 📱 News & Trends Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone (2 minute read) Amazon S3 Express One Zone reduced storage prices by 31%, PUT request prices by 55%, and GET request prices by 85% on April 10. The per-GB charges for data uploads and retrievals were also reduced by 60% and will now apply to all bytes transferred. New GKE inference capabilities reduce costs, tail latency and increase throughput (3 minute read) Google Kubernetes Engine is enhancing generative AI inference with new tools like the GKE Inference Quickstart, TPU serving stack, and Inference Gateway to optimize performance, reduce latency, and lower costs. These improvements help businesses like HubX and Snap efficiently deploy AI models at scale while managing challenges like load balancing and price-performance optimization. Simple, scalable, and global: Containers are coming to Cloudflare Workers in June 2025 (12 minute read) Cloudflare is launching Containers in open beta in late June that are designed for running complex applications with more resources than Workers allow. The platform integrates with Workers for easy management, including API routing, service mesh, and orchestration. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials How to Put Guardrails Around Containerized LLMs on Kubernetes (9 minute read) Securing enterprise LLM deployments requires a multilayered approach combining containerization and guardrails to prevent prompt injections and unauthorized access. Organizations can enforce strict security boundaries, automate model updates, and ensure continuous monitoring for safer AI operations by using Kubernetes and tools like NVIDIA Guardrails and Kubeflow. How to Sync Anything (16 minute read) Ad-hoc replication often leads to inconsistent data due to lossy change detection, asynchronous retries, and lack of a clear sync model. A structured, idempotent diff-and-patch approach provides a reliable foundation for replication. CouchDB offers built-in tools—like the changes feed—to support this model effectively. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools FilePizza (GitHub Repo) FilePizza uses WebRTC to enable peer-to-peer file transfers directly in the browser, eliminating intermediary server storage for faster, private, and secure sharing. kgateway (GitHub Repo) kgateway is a fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway that excels in function-level routing. It is designed to support hybrid applications. 🎁 Miscellaneous Overclocking dbt: Discord's Custom Solution in Processing Petabytes of Data (3 minute read) Discord scaled dbt to process petabytes of data for over 100 developers working across 2,500+ models by implementing custom solutions like environment separation, configurable time-based processing, and a sophisticated versioning system. Compilation times were improved by 5x and a CI/CD pipeline with automated checks was created to prevent errors before they reached production. IaC Ownership - a Tag-based approach (9 minute read) This post highlights different approaches to determining the ownership of non-human identities. It focuses on the complexities introduced by Infrastructure as Code. One key method discussed is using a tag-based approach to trace ownership in automated, rapidly changing environments. Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) (12 minute read) Google has introduced the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard designed to enable seamless collaboration between AI agents—regardless of their vendor or framework—across enterprise platforms. Backed by over 50 partners, A2A supports secure communication, long-running tasks, and multimodal interactions, paving the way for scalable, interoperable agentic ecosystems in real-world applications. ⚡ Quick Links Configure time-based scaling in Azure Container Apps (3 minute read) Azure Container Apps now supports time-based autoscaling using cron-type KEDA rules, allowing apps to scale at specific times based on predictable workload patterns. Google Introduces AI Agents to Streamline Software Development (3 minute read) Google has unveiled a suite of AI agents and platforms designed to automate various software engineering tasks, aiming to enhance productivity and reduce manual effort in development workflows. Love TLDR? 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