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Hammering Out a Logical File System and A DNS for Data
An article from ‘The Next Platform’. Read about an interesting parallel and high-performance file system that has been used to produce Stranger Things and The Mandalorian. From the product page, I see it is a global parallel file system.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/19/hammering-out-a-logical-file-system-and-a-dns-for-data/
5 Ways to Write a Go Database Model
See different ways to query a database with Go.
https://pboyd.io/posts/5-ways-to-write-a-go-database-model/
NetScaler ADC and Gateway
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2023-3519, CVE-2023-3466, CVE-2023-3467.
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
Interesting article on the Linux desktop market. Linux has only 3.08 percent of the total market but ChromeOS has 4.15 percent. Read the end, it is quite funny.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/18/linux_desktop_debate/
Linus Torvalds calls for calm as bcachefs filesystem doesn't make Linux 6.5
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/linux_6_5_rc1_bcachefs/
https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2307.1/00589.html
Red Hat's open-source rot took root when IBM walked in
We knew that IBM's takeover was not good for Red Hat. I personally moved away from Red Hat many years ago when they stopped distributing the binaries.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/07/red_hat_open_source/
Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/13/wayland_is_coming/
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone
ABI compatibility in our case means working to ensure that applications built to run on RHEL (or RHEL clones) can run without issue on AlmaLinux. Adjusting to this expectation removes our need to ensure that everything we release is an exact copy of the source code that you would get with RHEL.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/17/almalinux_project_switches_focus/
Introducing Terratest
I guess you know the testing framework from Gruntwork.
https://medium.com/@danielaaronw/unlocking-the-power-of-terratest-part-1-4ea71f2f27c2
https://terratest.gruntwork.io
k9s
A way to manage Kubernetes clusters.
https://github.com/derailed/k9s
CVE-2023-3342 Detail
The User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a hardcoded encryption key and missing file type validation on the 'ur_upload_profile_pic' function in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3342
PGDAY UK
PostgreSQL Europe is proud to announce the 1st Annual PGDay UK which will be held at the Hallam Conference Centre in London, UK, on September 12, 2023.
PostgreSQL: No More VACUUM, No More Bloat
OrioleDB extension has a bold claim that you don't need anymore to vacuum tables.
https://www.orioledata.com/blog/no-more-vacuum-in-postgresql/
Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL
Now Citus can also be sharded by schema, which is very lovely, especially for a multi-tenant environment.
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2023/07/18/citus-12-schema-based-sharding-for-postgres/
Announcing Onetable
https://www.onehouse.ai/blog/onetable-hudi-delta-iceberg
Tuning Flink Clusters for Stability and Efficiency
Align platform and product engineering teams over incidents
This post explores how to align platform and product engineering teams by implementing business value proxy metrics and using incidents to inform them.
https://firehydrant.com/blog/align-platform-and-product-engineering-teams-over-incidents/
Ethernet Consortium Shoots for 1 Million Node Cluster That Beat Infiniband
Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch
Write infrastructure as you were developing with CSS. I am not sold on this one but it is another point of view.
https://nathanpeck.com/rethinking-infrastructure-as-code-from-scratch/
Opinionated Infrastructure: Platform Engineering for Productivity. Golden Paths and Guardrails
In this RedMonk video, James Governor discusses the transformational role of Golden Paths in software development. Focuses on increasing developer productivity, streamlining workflows, and managing organizational constraints. Pointing to challenges like developer onboarding and manual ticketing, he recommends more automation and effective platform management. A short and insightful watch for those interested in optimizing software development processes.
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