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Undistro Wolfi Designed to Mitigate Software Supply Chain Risk
Chainguard has announced the general availability of Wolfi, a new Linux distribution designed for container environments and built to ensure a secure software supply chain. Wolfi is designed to be a minimal distribution that provides a build-time SBOM for all included packages.
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Extended VMware and Microsoft Collaboration with Major Updates to the Azure VMware Solution
During the recent VMware Explore 2022, VMWare announced it would strengthen its collaboration with Microsoft regarding the Azure VMWare Solution. In addition, the solution received several new updates, including extended availability.
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Developing and Evolving SaaS Infrastructures for Enterprises
SaaS companies that are focused on the enterprise market need to evolve their infrastructure to meet the security, reliability, and other IT requirements of their customers. IT admins and large customers are two important sources of requirements to drive development.
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Google Expands the Tau VM Family with Arm-Based Processors
Recently, Google announced its Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture of Compute Engine called Tau T2A. These VMs are the latest addition to the Tau VM family that offers VMs optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads and are available in preview.
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Uber's Engineering Manages to Cut 70k CPUs by Tuning Go GC
In an effort to help the company become profitable, Uber’s engineering department has focused their efforts on making their infrastructure more efficient. As an outcome of this effort, they managed to develop a semi-automated GO Garbage Collection tuning mechanism which in turn saved 70K CPU cores across 30 mission critical services.
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Kubernetes Proceeding with Deprecation of Dockershim in Upcoming 1.24 Release
Kubernetes is proceeding with deprecation and removal of dockershim in the upcoming 1.24 release. Workflows and systems that make use of the Docker Engine as the container runtime for their Kubernetes cluster will need to migrate prior to moving to the 1.24 release. The 1.23 release will retain dockershim and will be supported for another year.
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The Future of Agile in Africa: Challenges and Progress
The African continent is trailing behind in the adoption of agile compared to other continents as it faces wicked challenges and setbacks. However, the next two decades seem to be promising to the young continent, as tech startups, SMEs and large corporations are recognizing that a collaborative approach to product development leads to more productive and value-driven results.
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SUSE Releases Harvester v0.2.0, an HCI Solution Built Using Kubernetes
Harvester, an open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software built using Kubernetes, recently announced its v0.2.0 release. Harvester can be used to implement HCI on bare metal servers and is an open source alternative to vSphere and Nutanix. The first release, 0.1.0, was made public earlier this year.
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Sustainable Internet: Reducing the Environmental Impact
To be sustainable, the internet needs to assess, mitigate, and live up to its responsibilities for a healthy environment. By understanding the environmental impact, we can point to avenues where progress is possible and identify aspects of our digital infrastructures that come with unintended consequences that are too severe to look the other way.
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Large-Scale Infrastructure Hardware Availability at Facebook
Facebook's engineering team wrote about the different methodologies used at Facebook that help maintain a high degree of hardware availability in their data centers.
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Raspberry Pi 400 Is an ARM Linux Desktop PC
The Raspberry Pi 400 is a fully-functional Linux desktop computer and a Pi device. It is much cheaper than laptops or Chromebooks on the market, and yet could be more suitable for kids and students with a large ecosystem of STEM education materials and programs.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Dedicated Hosts with Reservations, Maintenance Control and More
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced new updates to its Dedicated Host service in Azure. The public cloud vendor made a few updates to the service such as cost-saving reservations, maintenance control, further options with SKUs, and Resource Health alerts.
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Facebook’s Switch from ntpd to chrony for a More Accurate, Scalable NTP Service
Facebook's engineering team wrote about their approach on how they built a more accurate and scalable Network Time Protocol service by replacing ntpd with chrony and a multi-layered architecture.
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How N26 Scales Technology through Hypergrowth
As N26 grew fast, they had to scale their technology to keep up. This meant scaling not only their infrastructure, but also their teams; for instance, they had to decide how to distribute work over teams and what technology to use or not use. Folger Fonseca, software engineer and Tech Lead at N26, shared his experience from scaling technology at N26 at QCon London 2020.
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Linode Announces DDoS Protection Across Its Global Network
Linode announced the availability of its DDoS protection service across its network for detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks.