Over 30 years ago, the incoming CEO of a company which had just made the largest loss in US history declared that the last thing the company needed was a […]

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EPC (Efficient Power Conversion) Space has come up with three new eGaN power transistors in plastic surface-mount packages, designed to deliver high-performance power conversion for  space computing systems. The EPC7050PCSH, […]

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Toshiba has engineering samples of the TXZ+ Family Entry-Class M4V Group of standard microcontrollers. Featuring an Arm Cortex-M4 core with a floating-point unit (FPU) operating at up to 80MHz, the […]

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Vishay is sampling a fully integrated short distance  VCSEL-based proximity sensor. The VCNL36829UM combines a photodiode, ASIC. 16-bit ADC, and smart dual I²C slave address in a compact 1.6 mm […]

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Basler and Syslogic are joining forces to bring machine vision and edge AI together by integrating Basler’s ace 2 GMSL cameras  with Syslogic’s computers. Autonomous mobile robots, agricultural vehicles, construction […]

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University of Birmingham scientists have developed a new material that changes from a gel to a liquid-like state under UV light and can be rebuilt using heat or dismantled by […]

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Electrical architectures with a selection of connectors are key to facilitating the reliable transmission of power and data under extreme operational conditions for aircraft, writes Sean Fitall. Electric Vertical Takeoff […]

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Callosum’s $100m seed round, one of the largest ever raised in Europe, was headed by Atomico, alongside Plural, DCVC, UK Sovereign AI and others. Callosum is building the essential layer […]

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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft, enabling customers to migrate existing clusters to KRaft without provisioning new infrastructure, migrating data, or reconfiguring client applications.

KRaft is Apache Kafka’s consensus protocol that eliminates the dependency on Apache ZooKeeper for metadata management. KRaft shifts metadata management from external ZooKeeper nodes to a group of controllers within Kafka itself, allowing metadata to be stored and replicated as topics within Kafka brokers, resulting in faster metadata propagation, improved scalability, and a simplified cluster architecture. Kafka 3.9.x is the last version to support ZooKeeper, and Kafka 4.x only supports KRaft. This in-place migration gives customers an easy path to move to KRaft on their existing clusters and upgrade to Kafka 4.x.

To get started, customers first upgrade to Kafka 3.9.x if they are on an older version, then customers can initiate the migration and the cluster remains available throughout the process. All steps can be performed through the MSK console, AWS CLI, or APIs. The in-place migration from Apache Zookeeper to Kraft is available today across all AWS regions where Amazon MSK provisioned is offered except European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). To learn how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide .

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6TB instances offer 6 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i instances offer up to 45% better price performance over existing U-1 instances.

U7i-6TB instances deliver 448 vCPUs and support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers running mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page .