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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution. Security alarm systems have communicated with operations centers and police for a long time, but now allow monitoring and control from your smartphone. With these burgeoning capabilities, there needs to be some focus on cyber security.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

They are an important, but incremental, step on the journey of being able to write code and have it run in the right place, with the right scale, with the right connections to other bits of code, and the right security and access controls. Container orchestration has always seemed to me to be very not cloud native.

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” Servers/Hardware.

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

CTOvision

Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM , delivers high availability, elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization. To meet this growing demand, data must be always available and easily accessed by massive volumes and networks of users and devices.

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Weekly Update 6-3-2019

Linux Academy

Configure auto-scaling with load balancers. Finally, you have to make sure all of those moving parts are secure; it is important that you have a good background with security, or you have a chance of getting hacked. Plus Wes and Ell are back from KubeCon in Barcelona and return with some great news for open source.

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