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The excellent 1619 Project, developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones at the NY Times, is being released in book form this fall: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (ebook). The book "substantially expands" on the or

When you were growing up, and your family was invited to a dinner party, chances are you ate exclusively with your young peers at a kids’ table, while the adults ate exclusively with their fellow grownups at their own. Today, the host of a dinner party might put children and adults together, calling to his […]

History tells us to be careful about dismissing NFTs as a passing fad, since the importance of technological innovations often becomes clearer once the hype dies down.

Don't look down! A new pedestrian bridge suspended 175-feet above the rocky gorge cradling the Paiva River opened in Portugal this week, and it's now the longest of its kind. At 1,700 feet, Arouca 516 eclipses the former record-holder, the 1,621-foot Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge in the Swis

Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.

Many people have, throughout their lives, experienced varying degrees of existential angst: the feeling of being some combination of unmoored, bored, anxious, restless, depressed, lost, isolated, and/or alienated, and simply wondering what it’s all about. For many too, these feelings of existential angst have been exacerbated over the past pandemic-burdened year. Yet, heightened though these […]

Out of touch? Basic? A new term to describe a certain aesthetic is gaining popularity on TikTok.

Organized sports, particularly for school-age kids, present a real challenge. The results are easily measured and are on just one axis. Points scored. Winning vs. losing. If we teach a child to ide…

Packer [https://www.packer.io/] is a tool to automate building machine images and it supports VMware, Amazon EC2, Docker, Google Compute, and others. This is very useful for infrastructure-as-code! This article covers how to incrementally create Open Virtualization Format (OVF [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format]) images using Packer. What I mean is an api-node and a db-node can be based on the server-base-node, avoiding the repeated full ISO install for each... saving a l

Some Packer templates to build Qemu/KVM images. Contribute to lightcode/packer-templates development by creating an account on GitHub.

Alpine Linux Packer template. Contribute to ketzacoatl/packer-alpine development by creating an account on GitHub.

Reading Time: 11 minutes Containers have been around for over a decade. Yet before Docker’s explosive success beginning in 2013 they were not wide-spread or well-known. Long gone are the days of chroot, containers are all the rage, and with them, we have a whole new set of development and security challenges.

The history of virtual container technology since the 70s with chroot & Unix, through the rise of Docker, Kubernetes' take over, and the future of Containers

Cisco architects explain the benefits of NFV and the market drivers that are enabling its adaption.

Authors: Brendan Burns (Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft) It is remarkable to me to return to Portland and OSCON to stand on stage with members of the Kubernetes community and accept this award for Most Impactful Open Source Project. It was scarcely three years ago, that on this very same stage we declared Kubernetes 1.0 and the project was added to the newly formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation. To think about how far we have come in that short period of time and to see the ways in which this project has shaped the cloud computing landscape is nothing short of amazing.

Posted on Friday 30 Apr 2021. 289 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

The Kubernetes story began in the minds of Google employees. What challenges did they face and what was the "Borg" project? Find out now!

Colorful audio mixer shared by KDY0523 on Thingiverse: It works perfectly, and it’s easy to assemble. Working vedio : All the info about the original project : Download the files and learn mo…

A Code Pattern to teach how to run a COBOL program on Kubernetes - GitHub - IBM/kubernetes-cobol: A Code Pattern to teach how to run a COBOL program on Kubernetes

Most developers think of COBOL as a dead language. Surprisingly, the TIOBE Index for October 2016 lists COBOL as the 24th most popular…

Misconfigurations are a major security concern when running business applications in the public cloud. Errors in how infrastructure, applications and policies are set up can have significantly different impacts, but they all get labeled under the heading of "misconfiguration." First the bad news. In the SANS Institute's latest survey of information security professionals, 54% believe…

Who we are isn’t the same thing as what we do. But sometimes, what we do can change who we are. Our identity describes the person we see in the mirror, the groups we identify with, the versio…

Though RESTful APIs remain the mainstay of the programmable world, there is rapid adoption of reactive event-driven architecture and a distinct shift from the traditional polling-based legacy integrations. The considerations of an event-based approach are not just limited to the obvious candidates, such as designing a system that reacts to changes in real-time, but also…