Simplyblock Byte – Issue 2025-02/1
Table Of Contents
/Conferencing/
Leap 2025, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Feb 9-12, 2025)
Simplyblock joins Leap 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The team is on-site and would love to learn more about your use cases. Don’t miss the chance!
/HotOffThePress/
Get all the news around simplyblock
Bare-Metal Kubernetes: Power of Direct Hardware Access
The adoption of Kubernetes just hit 90% across enterprises. While not all workloads use Kubernetes yet, the amount inside those enterprises is rising. When and why should you favor bare-metal Kubernetes deployments over virtualized ones?
How
How to Reduce Your Cloud Storage Carbon Footprint
Approximately 1% of global electricity usage is consumed by data centers. One quick way to reduce your carbon footprint is eliminating over-provisioned (hence wasted) storage capacity. See how simplyblock and thin provisioning can give quick wins while reducing storage costs, too.
High-Performance and Low Latency Storage with NVMe/TCP
For over two decades, iSCSI has been the king of the hill for remote-attached block storage. That time is over, though. NVMe over TCP is here to take the thrown, and simplyblock is the simplest way to get it up and running.
/AroundTheWorld/
We love to share hot content from the community and ecosystem
#goodread
Book: Introduction to PostgreSQL for the Data Professional
Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey (both at Redgate Software) just published their book, explaining how to get from your first PostgreSQL instance to production-ready clusters, including backups, HA, and more. Highly recommended read if you are looking for guidance from industry veterans!
#releases
- PeerDB v0.24.0: https://sblk.xyz/peerdb-0-24-0
- Bun v1.2: https://sblk.xyz/bun-1-2
- FerretDB v2.0.0-RC1: https://sblk.xyz/ferretdb-2-0-0-rc1
- morph v.0.1.2: https://sblk.xyz/morph-0-1-2
- drizzle-orm v.0.39.1: https://sblk.xyz/drizzle-orm-0-39-1
- YugabyteDB v.2.25: https://sblk.xyz/yugabyte-2-25
- xtdb v.2.0.0-beta5: https://sblk.xyz/xtdb-2-0-0-beta5
- JHipster Lite v1.26.0: https://sblk.xyz/jhipster-1-26-0
- jo-bench: https://sblk.xyz/jobench
- PostGIS v3.5.2: https://sblk.xyz/postgis-3-5-2
/AtTheCloudFrontier/
CloudFrontier brings you the combined knowledge of the cloud startup world
Cloud Frontier Episode 10: Saaya Pal from Jump Capital
In this episode, Saaya Pal , Partner at Jump Capital, talks about the landscape of AI investments and how enterprise adoption changes. She shares how enterprises move from initial hesitation to strategic adoption and attack infrastructure challenges, including data center constraints, multi-cloud, and cost optimization.
You should subscribe now not to miss any new episode
- YouTube
- Spotify
- Apple Podcast
- Amazon Music
- Or your favorite audio podcast platform, simply search for “Cloud Frontier”
Follow us now: simpyblock.io // LinkedIn // X // YouTube // Mastodon // Bluesky