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Internet in a Box
I have finished my cruise now, which was mostly holiday, but also some work. I did some training for my mates (mainly in C coding) and we di...
Containers from first principles
You’ve likely heard everyone at the office or online proclaim that “K8s has eaten everyone’s lunch!” or that “everything should be in a docker container!”. While there are advantages to the above methodologies; it’s very easy to have cargo-culted their adoption; especially for Kubernetes (K8s). I find the biggest…
Wolf Incident Postmortem
Incident #210 Status Complete, one action item outstanding. Summary Sentinel consumed by wolf after repeated false alarms. Impact Loss of sentinel. No flock impact. Root causes Sentinel generated noisy alerts due to premature deployment, incomplete training, and overly monotonous task. Oncalls failed to respond to…
Cutting cluster management fees on Google Kubernetes Engine
Today, we're excited to announce that we have eliminated the cluster management fee for Google Kubernetes Engine , our managed Kubernetes service.
Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.
This will create the neccesary directories, install nginx and gunicorn under supervisord control and upload new configuration files made from templates on all the app-servers. Additionally it deploys the newest codebase from your local git branch.
Amazon DynamoDB Update – Global Tables and On-Demand Backup
AWS customers in a wide variety of industries use Amazon DynamoDB to store mission-critical data. Financial services, commerce, AdTech, IoT, and gaming applications (to name a few) make millions of requests per second to individual tables that contain hundreds of terabytes of data and trillions of items, and count on…
Implementing Open Source Container Security, Part 1: Runtime Security
Expert insight, best practices, and advice on Secure DevOps, security for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services. Review Sysdig blog posts today!
I hate packaging my software for Linux
Nineteen distribution channels later: what it actually costs to give a terminal editor away for free on Linux, and why the next step is a static musl binary that updates itself.
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster
New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play in the latest interim release of Ubuntu. […]
The anatomy of a smart bulb
I’ve been having some troubles with Zigbee. Yes, at our airbnb we have a rather big dining room where I’ve put 7 Zigbee RGBWW Smart bulbs. The problem is that each time I try to turn all 7 on or off there’s either a lag or some of them just won’t switch on or off. The controller is a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB dongle, yes…
Monorepos and Forced Migrations
Monorepos and Forced Migrations By most metrics, Google is a great place to work. Top tier compensation, free food, and largely co-workers who want do...
A Month of Terraform
I took Heroku for granted, and a month into setting up my own infra, I now know how much it bought me.
Out of Stock: How to Survive the LTO-8 Tape Shortage
If you’re currently using LTO for backup or archive, you have a few options for weathering the LTO-8 shortage. Let's take a look at the options.
AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second
Amazon S3 turned 15 earlier this year, and Amazon EC2 will do the same in a couple of months. Today we are celebrating the tenth birthday of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The First Decade Let’s take a walk through the last decade and revisit some of the most significant IAM launches: May 2011 […]
Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian
Goodbye, old friend. We’ve been traveling together since 2010, and you’ve faithfully served all my virtual machine needs well, first with VirtualBox and then later with libvirt and KVM . But, as they 1 say, all good things must pass.
Toward Vagrant 3.0
In order to support its growing ecosystem and community as we move toward the 3.0 release, we are making changes to Vagrant that will maintain its Ruby-based features while being ported to Go.
Docker on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Saving Three Months of Latency with a Single OpenTelemetry Trace
Discover how OpenTelemetry tracing and Coralogix analysis resolve latency issues, proving observability's role in enhancing system performance and reliability.
Challenges of micro-service deployments
I recently took part in a panel discussion discussing continuous delivery of micro-services hosted by ElectricCloud with Daniel Rolnick, Darko Fabijan and An...
FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg
High-quality sound in FreeBSD: system parameters, bitperfect signal, real-time operation, equalizer, MPD, FFmpeg filters.
Patching Is Hard
There are many news reports of a ransomware worm . Much of the National Health Service in the UK has been hit; so has FedEx . The patch for the flaw exploited by this malware has been out for a while, but many companies haven’t installed it. Naturally, this has prompted a lot of victim-blaming: they should have…