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Technology Short Take 151

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Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” Via the Kubernetes blog, Rory McCune of Aqua Security provides some guidelines for securing admission controllers. What do you think microsegmentation means ?

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what every open source project needs

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In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community.

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Technology Short Take #80

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. VMware recently announced the open sourcing of some software development kits (SDKs) for the new REST APIs in vSphere 6.5.

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Technology Short Take 121

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The one caveat to his approach that may be worth mentioning is that some policies (a PodSecurityPolicy or the use of Open Policy Agent) may prevent the user from launching a Pod connected to the host’s network namespace. Servers/Hardware. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons.

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Technology Short Take 106

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. Non-code contributions are, in my opinion, an important but oft-overlooked aspect of open source communities.

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Tech Blogs – Best Must Read Tech Resources 2019

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Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. Covering vista, Linux, Ubuntu, SQL server, mac os, enterprise, UNIX, open source, AMD, ERP – Techworld.com. Zero Day from ZDNet. Wired’s Threat Level. Engadget Mobile.

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