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GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container
Help lock down your containers with these Kubernetes Engine features and guidance
Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log
Update: Feb. 5 2020 The Let’s Encrypt CT logs are now included in approved log lists and are usable by all publicly-trusted certificate authorities. Today we are announcing a new Certificate Transparency log called Oak. The Oak log will be operated by Let’s Encrypt and all publicly trusted certificate authorities will…
GitHub Package Registry
With GitHub Package Registry your packages are at home with their code—sign up for the limited beta to try it out.
Red Hat Universal Base Image
There are a lot of choices when it comes to container base images, so why should you select Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)? Well, first off, all of the code in Red Hat Universal Base Image is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
Update (September 23, 2020) – Over the last year, we’ve heard feedback from many customers who have asked us to extend the deprecation date. Based on this feedback we have decided to delay the deprecation of path-style URLs to ensure that customers have the time that they need to transition to virtual hosted-style…
Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta
Cloud TPU Pods are now available in beta, helping you train models faster and at lower cost in the cloud.
Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows
Beginning with Windows Insiders builds this Summer, we will include an in-house custom-built Linux kernel to underpin the newest version of the Windows
Announcing WSL 2
WSL 2 is a new architecture that allows for dramatic file system performance and full system call compatibility in WSL using a Linux kernel.
Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
This is part one of a three-part series on considerations that companies will want to address if they decide to build their own cloud environment.
Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS
A multi-company team led by ARRAY delivered for the U.S. Air Force a successful modernization of a COBOL-based system running on aged mainframes to a Java-based system running on x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). AWS provides the system's capabilities for reliability, scalability, and this post describes the…
BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages
Learn what 768K day is and what it may mean for businesses that rely on the Internet to operate.
Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
GitLab Staff Engineer Andrew Newdigate shares how we completed our migration to Google Cloud Platform, and how we overcame challenges along the way.
I forgot how to manage a server
Something embarrassing happened to me the other day. I was playing around with a new server on Digital Ocean and it occurred to me: I had no idea how to manage …
Benefits of a Monorepo
A monorepo? Isn't that just a weird Facebook and Google thing? Why is PSPDFKit using a monorepo?
Now dev – Serverless on localhost
With Vercel CLI's new `vercel dev` command, you can locally work on Vercel applications easily, without having to deploy them.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
This review looks at the Q1 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 104,325 data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes
Announcing Teleport Wormhole, a new open source Kubernetes network plugin that combines the simplicity of flannel with encrypted networking from WireGuard.
Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole
This guide will walk you through the setup of a remote machine that will act as a personal VPN server at the cost of 3 to 5 USD per month. We will also configure it to act as a DNS resolver that will automatically block spam, tracking, advertising and malware domains on all of your connected devices.
Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)
I have long wanted to create my own desktop operating system targeting the Raspberry Pi. I believe we should have a hackable desktop environment that is both powerful and lightweight, similar to BeOS and the Amiga. To build this desktop we really need full control over how apps draw to the screen, but still have…
Fighting vendor lock-in and designing testable serverless apps
Here is how you can fight vendor lock-in beyond testing on a serverless app, using hexagonal architecture.
Should that be a microservice? Factors to keep in mind
There are many good reasons to use a microservices architecture. In this post, we examine 6 factors to help you decide when to use—and when not to use—microservices.
Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes
🇬🇧 Article in English We always need to customize our deployment with Kubernetes and, I don’t know why but the main tool around for now is HELM which throws away all the logic we learn on docker and Kubernetes. Here I will introduce to you an alternative called Kustomize ❤️