Tag: Donnie Prakoso

This July, AWS communities in ASEAN wrote a new history. First, the AWS User Group Malaysia recently held the first AWS Community Day in Malaysia. Another significant milestone has been achieved by the AWS User Group Philippines. They just celebrated their tenth anniversary by running 2 days of AWS Community Day Philippines. Here are a few photos from the event, including Jeff Barr sharing his experiences attending AWS User Group meetup, in Manila, Philippines 10 years ago. Big congratulations to AWS Community Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders and all volunteers who organized and delivered AWS Community Days! Also, thank you to everyone who attended and help support our AWS communities. Last Week’s Launches We had interesting launches…

While developing with containers is becoming an increasingly popular way for deploying and scaling applications, there are still areas where improvements can be made. One of the main issues with scaling containerized applications is the long startup time, especially during scale up when newer instances need to be added. This issue can have a negative impact on the customer experience, for example when a website needs to scale out to serve additional traffic. A research paper shows that container image downloads account for 76 percent of container startup time, but on average only 6.4 percent of the data is needed for the container to start doing useful work. Starting and scaling out containerized applications requires downloading container images from a…

In last week’s AWS Week in Review post, Danilo mentioned that it’s summer in London. Well, I’m based in Singapore, and it’s mostly summer here. But, June is a special month here as it marks the start of durian season. Starting next week, I’ll be travelling to Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. But before I go, I want to share some interesting updates from last week for you. Let’s get started. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my attention: New Hands-on Course: Generative AI with Large Language Models – Generative AI has been a technology highlight for the past few months. If you are on your journey to learn large language models (LLM), then you can try…

In today’s business landscape, companies strive to equip their employees with the most suitable and efficient tools to perform their jobs effectively. To achieve this goal, many companies turn to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. This approach allows companies to optimize their workflows, enhance employee productivity, and focus their resources on core business activities rather than software development and maintenance. As the use of SaaS applications expands, there’s an increasing need for solutions that can proactively identify and address potential security threats to maintain uninterrupted business operations. Security teams spend time monitoring application usage data for threats or suspicious behavior, and they’re responsible for maintaining security oversight to meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Unfortunately, integrating SaaS applications with existing security tools requires…