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Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment

Every agent tool stores memory in its own shape, and every week someone builds another one. None of them can read the others. Observability had the same problem until OpenTelemetry gave everyone one data model to share. A tour of today's memory formats, the proposals that already exist, and what a shared spec could…

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A Quick Introduction to LXD

With the recent release of Ubuntu 15.04, aka “Vivid Vervet”, the Ubuntu community has also unveiled an early release of LXD (pronounced “lex-dee”), a new project aimed at revitalizing the use of LXC and LXC-based containers in the face of application container efforts such as Docker and rkt. In this post, I’ll provide…

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How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (2019)

Last December, I was invited to a private bug bounty program to test a beta version of GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a workflow automation tool integrated with GitHub. One common use case of GitHub Actions is for CI builds – a project can fairly easily start up a Docker container every time they push a commit…