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In this DevOps report from Contrary Research, we take a deep dive into cloud computing, open source, and the impact they had on the evolution of DevOps

Everything you need to know about securing the software supply chain.

Republicans went into the week looking to take control of the U.S. House and possibly the Senate. Instead, they are left more with questions than favorable results.

Renowned street artist Banksy has unveiled his latest artwork in an Instagram post -- a mural in the liberated Ukrainian town of Borodianka.

The development process requires a mix of technical and communications skills, which calls for specialized metrics to keep track of the team’s vitals.

A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services. - GitHub - nikoksr/notify: A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services.

Back in 2018, now five years ago, we published a blog post describing our 400+ node Elasticsearch cluster. In that post we brought up an important topic: So far, we have elected to not upgrade the cluster. We would like to, but so far there have been more urgent tasks. How we actually perform the upgrade is undecided, but it might be that we choose to create another cluster rather than upgrading the current one. Well, the day to upgrade finally came.

What would make AWS even better: The Top 6

Earlier today, I deleted all of my tweets and left Twitter forever. While I plan on leaving a nightlight thread for a while, I will eventually close my account, assuming Elon doesn’t do it for me. The past week has been an emotional rollercoaster for me as I have watched everything play out.

Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways - GitHub - timhutton/twitter-archive-parser: Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways

Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.’s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research purposes.

It was a hot summer day inside my apartment. At least not for long. I just got an air conditioner from my landlord and it was time to fire it up.

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I helped Replicated replace their use of PostgreSQL with rqlite. This brought much easier operation and high-availability to their Application Manager. To quote from  their blog post: “Because the database is now highly available, the application … Continue reading Replacing Postgres with rqlite →

The hacking group Microsoft ID'd is among the world's most cutthroat and skilled.

"We are limiting headcount additions through a targeted hiring freeze," Disney CEO Bob Chapek said in a memo obtained by CNBC.

A fake, but verified, Twitter account impersonated Eli Lilly and claimed insulin is free.

Fake pharma account ignited fury over insulin pricing by falsely saying it's now free.

Carvana is in trouble. Humans are probably to blame.

I’ve decided to compile & share highly effective online resources on the topic of building in public. Here you go.

What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?

Introduction Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) managed node groups automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Kubernetes nodes (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances) for Amazon EKS Kubernetes clusters. Managed nodes are provisioned as part of an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group that’s managed for you by Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS doesn’t enable […]

Introduction The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. They define various Benchmarks for Kubernetes control plane and the data plane. For Amazon EKS clusters, it is strongly recommended to follow the CIS Amazon EKS Benchmark. If the data plane of an Amazon EKS cluster uses Amazon Linux […]

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