Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! What will you find in this Tech Short Take? Thank you, Ben!

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! What will you find in this Tech Short Take? Thank you, Ben!

Open Source 60

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. To help address that, I looked around to find an open, interoperable way of adding an extra layer of encryption onto my data. A Mac port of the open source EncFS FUSE filesystem. Background. What You’ll Need.

Open Source 137

Open Source Storage Security Guidelines 137

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Non-code contributions are, in my opinion, an important but oft-overlooked aspect of open source communities. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. A complete OS based on the bare bones open source that backs macOS is apparently a real thing called PureDarwin. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. Here’s an article from Marko Saric on his switch from macOS to Linux.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60