So, a backdoor was discovered in a piece of compression software, which provides a widely distributed library used all over in the Linux system. I'm nor going to do a deep dive of the tech side of the issue now.
Instead, I want to talk about the perception that open …
read moreSo, KubeCon EU has come and gone and I feel sort of uninthused about the wbhole thing. Usually there is a buzz beforehand and a lot of chatter during the event, but there didn't seem to be as much for this round. I don't even think I got any notice …
read moreWith the recent announcement that Reddit intends to go IPO, I have some thoughts on our constant pursuit of unicorns in tech, and why that is generally a bad thing. First, I'm not some tech finance guru, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but one that …
read moreSo, after fiddling with more cloud native and serverless stuff in the last week or so, I pivot back and fire up my on-cloud Kubernetes stuff to discover they are ... not working. The actual neat thing is after an obscure error, the starup scripts contine a bit and then abruptly …
read moreOkay, so we're a month in and I'll just say -- this new charge just sucks. It appeared they were going to give accounts credit for one IP address, and indeed charges actually disappeared mid-month for a while, but then later on they came back.
It's about $3.50 a month …
read moreWell, even Kubernetes isn't just K8s anymore, but it is certain that Cloud native isn't simply just Kubernetes. I saw the assertion that cloud native is turning into K8s, but I think that has more to do with your vantage point rather than what is going on in the wild …
read moreI've done some decent number of article reviews by now, and whike this isn't a comprehensive or best 10 list, it'll be some of the compelling ones from the recent months, plus some overall metrics.
One thing is that my selection process is slightly biased -- I use social media searches …
read moreSo, after some various snags and a myriad of updates, I've finally recorded, lightly edited and rendered and finally uploaded and made available a video, as opposed to just doing a live stream. I'd forgotten the extra burden of doing the recorded bits, since all of my recent stuff has …
read moreSo recently I've had the chance to fiddle a lot more with serverless and Lambda after some time with a lot less emphasis on it. And, I have to say its growing on me. Part of the reason is because I've figured out some of the issues, but I think …
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