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This article shows the consequences of proprietary, closed software finding its way more and more into farming.
This post gives some general security advice in working with .NET containers.
In this post, the author reflects on how Amazon AWS’s Babelfish will influence PostgreSQL.
This article gives an insight into the history of the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
In this post, the author gives a short introduction to ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography.)
The author analyzes an old issue in the Linux kernel TCP implementation.
Operating Systems book centered around the concepts of virtualization, concurrency, and persistence.
On https://distrotest.net/, over 300 different operating systems can be tested from within the browser or via a VNC client.
Canonical released Ubuntu Core 20, it’s minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
»This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.«
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the US and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, the Dunant submarine cable system delivering a capacity of 250 terabits per second.
This blog post explains what checkpoints in PostgreSQL are and how you can tune them.
Docker donates the code of it’s container registry to the CNCF.
This article differentiates between process-oriented and commitment-oriented projects and their imposter equivalents.
The Threat Modeling Manifesto provides guidelines with values and principles in threat modeling.
This post explains how to parse plain text gRPC messages in Wireshark.
This paper shows that NTP is vulnerable to attacks by malicious NTP servers.
» ‘Move fast and break things’ is not a tenable paradigm for this industry today — if it ever was. In the light of our experience, with the outcomes of an industry that became fixated on pumping out minimally viable products, it’s a paradigm that heads towards what we could conventionally label as criminal negligence.«
Adding a document that describes the high-level architecture is a useful thing to add to your project.
A postmortem by Slack on the outage from the beginning of January, caused by the overload of one of their AWS transit gateway.