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TechCrunch | August 11, 2017
Microsoft Wants to Make Blockchain Networks Enterprise-Ready With Its New Coco Framework
Interest in blockchains is at an all-time high, but there are still plenty of technical issues to solve, especially for enterprises that want to adopt this technology for smart contracts and other use cases. For them, issues like throughput, latency, governance and confidentiality are still major...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation | August 11, 2017
How Captive Portals Interfere With Wireless Security and Privacy
If you have ever wanted to use the wifi at a coffee shop or library, you have probably had to click through a screen to do it. This screen might have shown you the network’s Terms of Service and prompted you to click an “I agree” button. Depending on where you were, it might have asked you for...
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Julia Evans | August 11, 2017
How Kubernetes Certificate Authorities Work
Today, let’s talk about Kubernetes private/public keys & certificate authorities!
This blog post is about how to take your own requirements about how certificate authorities + private keys should be organized and set up your Kubernetes cluster the way you need to.
The various Kubernetes...
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The New Stack | August 11, 2017
Open Source Leaders: Solomon Hykes and the Docker Revolution
Hykes likes to try new ideas and new things. “If they work I keep it. If it doesn’t work I try something else,” said Hykes. At Docker, they call themselves builders. “We like to build new things and if they’re useful we build more of them and if they’re not useful we try something else. It’s almost...
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OpenSource.com | August 11, 2017
Top 4 Reasons I Use dwm for my Linux Window Manager
I like minimalistic views. If I could run everything in a terminal I would. It's free from shiny stuff that hogs my resources and distracts my feeble mind. I also grow tired of resizing and moving windows, never getting them to align perfectly.
On my quest for minimalism, I grew fond of Xfce and...
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The New Stack | August 10, 2017
Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Talk: “Developing an Open Source Strategy — The First 90 Days”
“Open source culture” is something many of us who work with the open source community, either directly or indirectly, believe we have a handle on. There’s a general presumption that it should center around the concept of sharing ideas, and contribute to a broader ideal of building better software. ...
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InfoWorld | August 10, 2017
3 Open Source Projects That Make Kubernetes Easier
From cluster state management to snapshots and DR, companion tools from Heptio, Kubed, and Kubicorn aim to fill the gaps in Kubernetes.
Clearly, Kubernetes is an elegant solution to an important problem. Kubernetes allows us to run containerized applications at scale without drowning in the details...
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OpenStack | August 10, 2017
How to Build Clusters for Scientific Applications-as-a-Service
How can we make a workload easier on cloud? In a previous article we presented the lay of the land for HPC workload management in an OpenStack environment. A substantial part of the work done to date focuses on automating the creation of a software-defined workload management environment – SLURM-as...
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Medium Blog | August 10, 2017
The Cloud Native Architect
One of the biggest learning curves I ever endured in that time was working in an operations team building what I will call a virtualisation platform. They called it infrastructure as code, I called it automating previously manual processes using development techniques. It opened my mind again to a...
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Brendan Gregg's Blog | August 10, 2017
Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. Linux load averages track not just runnable tasks, but also tasks in the uninterruptible sleep state. Why? I've...
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