Infrastructure has a tendency to sprawl. Data centers deal with server sprawl and VM sprawl. With the advent of containers, admins adapted to container sprawl with orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. Many environments have now reached the stage of Kubernetes cluster sprawl, meaning admins have to figure out the best way to manage and deploy…

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GitOps is a modern cloud native approach to continuous deployment that leverages the Git version control/source control system as a single source of truth for all configuration, infrastructure, and operational procedures. In this approach, the changes are automated through the source control system itself. GitOps is considered as an evolutionary approach towards infrastructure as code.…

Giving sites your credit card or phone number can cause headaches, spam, and worse. But there’s a better way: temporary, “burner” payment and contact methods.

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Ever since the Covid pandemic started in 2020, various groups have seen verifiable credentials as a means for providing a secure, privacy-respecting system for health and travel data sharing. This post explores the ecosystem of ecosystems that is emerging as hundreds of organizations around the world rise to the challenge of implementing a globally interoperable system that also respects individual choice and privacy.

There was an outside chance that China might pull a surprise on the HPC community and launch the first true exascale system – meaning capable of more than

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If we could take the Fugaku supercomputer out of the HPC market equation and while we were at it, pretend the pandemic never happened, the supercomputing

This article is a high-level introduction to an efficient worfklow for optimizing runtime performance of machine learning systems running on the GPU. Using traces from Nsight Systems to show real production scenarios, I introduce a set of common utilization patterns and outline effective approaches to improve performance.

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Linux offers a lot of commands to help users gather information about their host operating system: listing files or directories to check attributes; querying to see what packages are installed, processes are running, and services start at boot; or learning about the system's hardware. Each command uses its own output format to list this information. You need to use tools like grep, sed, and awk to filter the results to find specific information. Also, a lot of this information changes frequently, leading to changes in the system's state.

Part 2 offers a comprehensive list of practices that can be used to understand and assess an organization’s continuous testing capabilities.

REST is the ubiquitous way of writing APIs for as long as I can remember. Today I want to introduce you to a new way of writing APIs. Have you met gRPC? gRPC is a relatively new way to write APIs and consume them as if you're just calling a functio...

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How to document a Socket.IO API? This is the first part of a series of blog posts covering the modelling of the Socket.IO protocol using AsyncAPI objects followed by a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a specification YAML file given an existing Socket.IO API.

Most database protocols have not followed the HTTP path yet and remain in the stone age of connection pooling.

In the previous post, I’ve shared a few things that were useful to me as a developer. Now wearing my “ops” hat, there are a few things that I wanted to cover - blocking bad clients, rate limiting, caching, and gradual rollout. Blocking bad clients Blocking bad clients in nginx is usually implemented with a simple return 403 for some requests. To classify request we can use any builtin variable, e.

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