Terraform is terrible
Remote state storage on AWS uses 2 resources?! Client design for CI jobs is an afterthought. Breaking change version every quarter. That's Terraform.
How Different Are REST and GraphQL After All? | StepZen blog
The usual debate is REST versus GraphQL, but are the two really that different after all? Let's look at the similarities and differences to understand which is best for your project.
Unifying Partner Ecosystems With a Distributed Ledger - DevOps.com
A distributed ledger could prove helpful in other areas of the data economy, like manufacturing supply chains or airline partner ecosystems.
How We Built an Open Source Drop-In Replacement for gRPC – The New Stack
Our team at Storj is building a decentralized cloud object storage and when we decided to build it using Go, we thought we’d also utilize gRPC for peer-to-peer remote procedure calls in client/server interactions. gRPC is designed for environments like the one we are building at Storj. It connects services together with easy code generation,…
Chaos Engineering Moves Beyond ‘Breaking Stuff’ to Highlight Business Value – The New Stack
When Netflix first pioneered chaos engineering 10 years ago with its Chaos Monkey tools, the prevalent idea was randomly shutting down parts of a system to see if the whole thing goes down. Since then, chaos engineering has evolved into a more mature practice that vendors and enterprises are adopting more widely, whether they call…
Just Say No, to Misogyny: How and Why to Be an Ally ~ Chris Grundemann
Women working in technology face harassment on a daily basis. […]
How J.G. Ballard Foresaw the Future #cyberpunk « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
The influence on cyberpunk of New Wave sci-fi author, J.G. Ballard, cannot be overstated. Ballard, along with other New Wave authors of the 60s and 70s, like William Burroughs, Phillip K. Dick, Ali…
$85 BIllion for Empty Buses and Railcars | Newgeography.com
How to Correctly Frame and Calculate Latency SLOs – The New Stack
As more companies transform into service-centric, “always on” environments, they are implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles like Service Level Objectives (SLOs). SLOs are an agreement on an acceptable level of availability and performance and are key to helping engineers properly balance risk and innovation. SLOs are typically defined around both latencies and error rates.…
How New Orleans handled an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1914
ne night in June 1914, a 49-year-old Swedish sailor who had recently arrived in New Orleans agonized feverishly in a steamy downtown boarding house...
Functional programming in Go with generics | ani.dev
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Seven Rules for Delivering Machine Learning Projects on Time - Data Science Central
Predicting the length of time it will take to get a Machine Learning (ML) project into production can be tricky. If there is an issue, more often than not, it…
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Interstate water system: a national pipeline for water - Big Think
We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?
Three requests for the Google Chrome team as they experiment with RSS (Interconnected)
Posted on Wednesday 26 May 2021. 976 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.
How To Build An Enterprise Communication Software For Businesses
Hacktivist Posts Massive Scrape of Crime App Citizen to Dark Web
The cache includes data on 1.7 million incidents, giving insight into the scale of Citizen around the country.
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freenode.net - Supporting Free and Open Source Software Communities since 1998
Summoning Cthulhu by Parsing HTML with Regular Expressions
Linux sysadmins: How my six year-old learned to do my job | Enable Sysadmin
Are we as Linux sysadmins all about to be replaced by six-year-olds and a web console?
Solving Subscriptions – ProjectVRM
Count the number of companies you pay regularly for anything. Add up what you pay for all of them. Then think about the time you spend trying and failing to “manage” any of it—especiall…
PinePhone Review: An Imperfect Device With a Must-Watch Ecosystem
The $149 PinePhone isn’t a perfect device, but the nuanced ecosystem it’s going to build for Linux-based smartphones is going to be amazing.
Sunk costs, creativity and your Practice | Seth's Blog
“Ignore sunk costs” is the critical lesson of useful decision making. The thing you earned, that you depend on, that was hard to do–it’s a gift from your former self. Just b…
Cattle, Not Kittens - Revisited - DevOps.com
It's time to remember that steps in the DevOps process aren't special snowflakes, and shouldn't need specialists to keep everything going.
Rival post-PCIe bus standards groups sign peace treaty – Blocks and Files
Two rival groups developing CPU-peripheral bus standards have agreed to work together. The CXL and Gen-Z groups announced yesterday a memorandum of understanding, which opens the door for future collaboration. Blocks & Files expects a combined CXL-Gen-Z specification will be developed quickly and available before the end of the year. Jim Pappas, CXL Consortium board […]
Git Good - The magic of keeping a clean Git history | Blog | simplabs
Chris Manson goes into detail about the benefits of a clean git history and describes some tips and tricks that really help you clean up your branches and Pull Requests
Humanity Survived Previous Warming Cycles | Newgeography.com
Team builds first hacker-resistant cloud software system
Whenever you buy something on Amazon, your customer data is automatically updated and stored on thousands of virtual machines in the cloud. For businesses like Amazon, ensuring the safety and security ...
European Telecom Giants Prioritize a Kubernetes-Based Open Cloud Platform – The New Stack
Recently, five European telecom operators (Deutsche Telecom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM S.p.A., and Vodafone) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost innovation in Open RAN, industry-wide interface standards that allow radio access network equipment and software from different vendors to communicate. Collectively, the European telecoms published a "Technical Priorities Document" that aims to list down…