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Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux
Experience Java like never before with Azul Prime. Turbocharge Java performance with a JVM that starts fast and stays fast, with less infrastructure.
Introduction to HAProxy ACLs
A practical guide to HAProxy ACLs. Learn the syntax and follow step-by-step examples to block traffic, redirect users, choose backends, and enhance security.
Getting Started with rkt
Minitest is a beautifully made test suite for writing tests to verify your expectations from your Ruby code base. Here's how to run tests in Minitest.
Unikernel Systems Joins Docker
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA
Cloud Workstations, now GA, enables faster developer onboarding and increased productivity with an enhanced security posture.
DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
DigitalOcean Functions is a fast, scalable, and cost-effective compute solution that enables you to build quickly, scale automatically, and save costs by removing the need to pay for idle resources.
Moving BBC Online to the Cloud
The story of how the BBC website has been completely rebuilt and moved from datacentres to the cloud.
Node 20 will be deprecated on GitHub Actions runners
Editor’s note (August 25, 2026): Updated the Node20 removal date to September 23rd, 2026. Editor’s note (February 25, 2026): Updated the migration date to June of 2026. Editor’s note (May…
Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training
We used Multislice Training to run the world’s largest LLM distributed training job on a compute cluster of 50,944 Cloud TPU v5e chips.
Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
Remember Clusterman? Now It's Open-Source, and Supports Kubernetes Too! David R. Morrison, Compute Infra Tech Lead Nov 11, 2019 Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post showing off some...
Living with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures
Lessons learned, observations and reflections
LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained
How LocalStack's AWS Server Framework and snapshot testing framework keep its AWS emulation in parity with changes to AWS APIs.
Supabase Storage v2: Image Resizing and Smart CDN
We're introducing new features for Supabase Storage: Image resizing and a Smart CDN.
Hypernetes: Bringing Security and Multi-Tenancy to Kubernetes
While many developers and security professionals are comfortable with Linux containers as an effective boundary, many users need a stronger degree of isolation, particularly for those running in a multi-tenant environment. Sadly, today, those users are forced to run their containers inside virtual machines, even one…
SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity
Posted Kim Lewandowski, Google Open Source Security Team & Mark Lodato, Binary Authorization for Borg Team Supply chain integrity attacks—u...
Tiny Docker Operating Systems
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
IBM announced IBM z/OS V2.5, the next-generation operating system (OS) for IBM Z, designed to accelerate client adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and drive application modernization projects.
Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests
To provide a secure and dependable experience on GitHub, we’re rolling out updates to rate limits for requests made without authentication. These changes will apply to operations like cloning repositories…
Why we ditched Amazon AWS
Ever since we started TestingBot (almost 2 years ago!) we've been running TestingBot on Amazon AWS (EC2 + S3 + other services). These last few mon...