Why PySyft is the open-source hero technology the world needs
PySyft is a Python library for secure and private Deep Learning. It uses Federated Learning, Differential Privacy, and Encrypted Computation to decouple private and sensitive data. It can be used within significant Deep Learning Frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
https://blog.openmined.org/tag/pysyft/
Endor Labs secures $25 million in seed funding to tackle open-source software sprawl
Sanja Raja said: “Unfortunately most SIEM and XDR solutions do not really combine multiple analytics and piece them together in a meaningful way to identify many of these exploits.”
Azure Kubernetes Service Now Supports Windows Server 2022
Red Hat backs CNCF project, spills TEE support over Kubernetes
If you, like this vulture, come from the appallingly old-fashioned world of on-prem computing, encrypting your own virtual machines may initially sound a little strange, but it makes sense if you're running those VMs on somebody else's hardware, somewhere out there on the internet.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/confidential_containers_encrypted_k8s/
Airline 'in talks' with Kyndryl after failed network card grounds flights
Aer Lingus says it is in talks with its IT services supplier, former IBM arm Kyndryl after the disastrous combo of a sliced fibre optic cable and a faulty network card on the backup line caused an IT systems outage that forced the airline to cancel more than 50 flights.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/kyndryl_aer_lingus/?td=rt-3a
Fortinet warns of a critical flaw in its security appliance OSes, admin panels
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/11/fortinet_critical_flaw/
UK govt launches multi-billion procurement for tax agency application services
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/11/uk_hmrc_procurement/
EXFO to Offer Cloud-Native Service Assurance on AWS
Setting up Ubuntu Desktop on AWS Workspace
AWS Workspace is now supporting Ubuntu Desktop.
https://www.victorleungtw.com/2022/09/30/ubuntu-aws-workspace/
terraform-aws-github-runner
A complete Terraform solution for self-hosted and scalable Github runners on AWS EC2. Lambda functions are controlling the scaling.
https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner
Functional Programming in Kotlin
This book is based on the famous Functional Programming in Scala.
https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-kotlin
October 2022 Security Updates
Microsoft security update for this month, October.
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2022-Oct
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering
I had and have a conviction that jobs in Ops are of two types: one is to help companies to do less infrastructure as possible, and the second is to work for a company that does infrastructure as a service like AWS, Cloudflare, etc. Charity Majors has a new post on this topic and she expands on it.
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering
Should That Be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind
VMWare Tanzu team published a great series on designing microservices that covers lifecycles, scalability, failures, and dependencies
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/should-that-be-a-microservice-keep-these-six-factors-in-mind
CISA releases RedEye open-source analytic tool
CISA has released RedEye, an interactive open-source analytic tool to visualize and report Red Team command and control activities.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/10/17/cisa-redeye-open-source-analytic-tool/
Why is Snowflake so expensive?
This post is explaining the relationship between revenue and performance improvement.
https://blog.devgenius.io/why-is-snowflake-so-expensive-92b67203945
Toyota dev left key to customer info on public GitHub page for five years
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/11/toyota_source_code_email_leak/
https://global.toyota/jp/newsroom/corporate/38095972.html (Japanese)
If you need a TCP replacement, you won't find a QUIC one
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/07/quic_tcp_replacement/
PostgreSQL 15 Released!
Several improvements including the SQL MERGE command.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-15-released-2526/
pg_walinspect
A new pg_walinspect
extension opens the possibility to query write-ahead logs through SQL rather than separate tooling.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/pgwalinspect.html
AWS announces AWS SAM serverless connectors
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/10/aws-sam-serverless-connectors/
Cloudflare Pages get even faster with Early Hints
Early Hints is a new feature currently supported in Chrome version 103+ that sends “hints” to a browser about critical resources on your page.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/early-hints-on-cloudflare-pages/
AWS Data Transfer Charges: Ingress Actually Is Free
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-data-transfer-charges-ingress-actually-is-free/
That’s all folks, see you next week.