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DockerCon 2017 Black Belt Session: Cilium for Network and Application Security

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the DockerCon 2017 Black Belt session led by Thomas Graf on Cilium , a new startup that focuses on using eBPF and XDP for network and application security. Graf points out that there is another session by Brendan Gregg on using BPF to do analysis performance and profiling. What is XDP?

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U.S. Agencies Release Guidelines for DDoS Attacks

SecureWorld News

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aim to overwhelm a target's application or website, exhausting the system's resources and making the target inaccessible to legitimate users. While DDoS attacks are relatively simple to execute, they are frequently used by threat actors and can be a real thorn in the side of an organization.

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

Cloudant’s JSON cloud-based data service allows mobile and web developers to quickly and easily store and access the explosion of mobile data using an application programming interface (API) that is significantly easier to use than alternatives. Analysis Big Data CTO' The acquisition of Cloudant is expected to close in 1Q14.

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Expanding the Cloud ? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All.

All Things Distributed

Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. Often an application consists of several different tasks to be performed in particular sequence driven by a set of dynamic conditions. Application developers must coordinate multiple distributed components to get the desired results.

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Weekly Update 5-20-2019

Linux Academy

Application streams. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate level has two new labs: Building a Serverless Application. Implementing an Auto Scaling Group and Application Load Balancer in AWS. This week, we’re diving into brand new DevOps courses. Red Hat Enterprise 8. Improved security.

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Technology Short Take 101

Scott Lowe

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. His points are spot-on: making the control plane highly available isn’t going to improve the availability or scalability of your applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

All you have to worry about it is the application that runs on the database. This includes MapReduce, Spark, and Presto, and is a managed service that allows customers to pull data from S3, HDFS, or MapR to do analysis without having to worry about the details of managing and optimizing a cluster. Where is FanDuel’s application now?

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