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"Data residing in any storage solution shouldn't be kept hostage but be able to migrate away at any point in time" - Michael Schmidt, CTO at simplyblock As users of storage solutions, you shouldn't be kept prisoner by the storage vendor with proprietary storage formats or engines, custom APIs for up- and downloads, or suffocating contracts. Files and other pieces of information stored into any type of storage should be able to freely be migrated. It is your data, take charge of it. Block storage, as the simplest form of storage is also the most powerful one. Using a simple interface, compatibility is at the utmost level and with options like striping multiple devices or freedom of choice for the filesystem block storage create a storage environment according to your needs. Not to forget, migrating data from one block storage to another is as simple as Linux dd. Simplyblock embraces all of that, for you and your data. If you want to learn more, find the article-⛓️💥 👇 #datamigration #storage #vendorlockin #nvme #lvm #kubernetes

Running a database (like #PostgreSQL or #MariaDB) on AWS and inside AKS? Simplyblock is your cloud-native storage orchestrator. Simplyblock utilizes Amazon EBS volumes and Amazon S3 Buckets, combines their IOPS and capacity, and provides logical volumes to be directly usable in your Kubernetes application. Learn more at: simplyblock.io

In this week's episode we were talking to Bruno Borges, principal product manager at Microsoft, about #AI and AI features and this happened 🤯😱 All of this week's topics include Java at Microsoft (which is much bigger than you might expect), the changes at Microsoft Post-Ballmer, how Microsoft loved to play pranks, and most importantly about the open source project #SemanticKernel to simplify the development of #AIAgents. Find the full episode, follow us, or subscribe our podcast channels. Find the links 👇 in the comments 🔥 Thank you Bruno for being such an amazing guest!

🚨 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙢: Simplyblock Byte 2024-08/2 🚨 Kubernetes 1.31 Released, AWS Storage Options, PostgreSQL K8s Operator Also additional news and releases of the PostgreSQL and Kubernetes ecosystem, an Cloud Commute interview with Gwen (Chen) Shapira and 🐯 Michael Freedman, as well as our newest episode of Cloud Frontier with Mihai Mărcuță telling the story of NodeShift and how they managed to resell unused data center capacity to bring down your cloud spending!

Hey folks, trying to get some crowd knowledge on #NVMe disk 🚀

"A couple of EC2 machines, some Pulumi scripts and it worked for a very long time but it got really messy as we added more services. Kubernetes saved us." This week I had the honor of talking to Gwen (Chen) Shapira, and I mean honor! Everyone working with databases and data pipelines most probably knows her name, so I was very humbled to have her on my simplyblock Cloud Commute podcast. We talked about the beginnings of Nile, their journey to make a #serverless #Postgres solution, as well as a little look into what's coming in the future. Join us on the journey! Find the full episode on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcast. All links in the comments 👇 Thank you Gwen for being such an amazing guest!

"I think #Serverless is unappreciated [...] we still have conversations with CTOs like «Where are your servers?» and we really don't have any" - Steven Renwick Last Wednesday we published the first episode of our new #CloudFrontier podcast, with all things #startup, #entrepreneurship, and #fundraising. Subscribe now to learn from leaders in the cloud infra space! Links below ⬇️

#Postgres is the database for everything. Time-series, vector, relational, ... What do you think? Do we need other databases or is Postgres enough? 📢 🐯 Michael Freedman from Timescale joined this week's episode of our Cloud Commute podcast and talked to host Christoph Engelbert about the past, present, and future of Timescale, as well as all the cool features that come with it! Join us now for this episode, subscribe, and never miss a new episode. Links ⬇️

🚨 Newsletter Alarm: Simplyblock Byte 2024-8/1 🚨 Ultra low latency storage, #Rockset migration, and image recognition Also news and releases from all over the cloud ecosystem, two new episodes of our Cloud Commute, and the first ever episode of our new Cloud Frontier 🎙️ Enjoy!

Image recognition isn't magic 🪄 but pure mathematics. This beginner's guide uses a visual example to explain how it works. Even is no math genius 🤯 Neural networks are hard to grasp until you find an easy to understand example. Our very own Christoph Engelbert wrote this piece to provide exactly this "easy to understand" example he was always looking for. Link in the comments ⬇