Redis has played a significant role in many developers' work on high-scale, low-latency web services for the past fifteen years. It is a reliable and efficient tool that empowers developers and handles high throughput with low latency, making it a go-to choice in the industry. The recent licensing c..

In this guest blog, Einar Norðfjörð walks through Birdie's journey moving from logs to OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb's tracing...

Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service called "The Webapp" with hundreds of developers making hundreds of changes weekly. Deploying at this scale poses a unique challenge, especially in implementing continuous deployment. Slack deploys from its Webapp repository 30-40 times a day to its producti..

Kubernetes v1.30 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features with 45 enhancements, including 17 stable, 18 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The release theme and logo for Kubernetes v1.30 is Uwubernetes. Some of the improvements that graduated to stable include volume manager refactoring, pod schedulin..

AWS IAM was used extensively by Stedi to enforce role-based access control for customers. A vulnerability was discovered in AWS STS where role trust policy statements were evaluated incorrectly, allowing unauthorized access to AWS accounts. Stedi shared their discovery process and collaboration with..

An analysis of security posture across a range of applications written in various programming languages found that Java services are disproportionately affected by vulnerabilities, with a high percentage of services vulnerable to critical, high-severity issues introduced by third-party libraries. Vu..

Establishing internal network infrastructure: Configuring a robust internal network infrastructure is key to efficient data center operations. This involves setting up switches, routers, and firewalls to manage data flow and protect against intrusions. Redundancy is critical for ensuring high availa..

The supercomputer Fugaku, developed by Japan's RIKEN Center for Computational Science, is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud for easier access. Fugaku has been used for various societal needs, from COVID-19 simulations to drug discovery and economic forecasting...

Next month will mark the 16th anniversary of the disclosure of a major vulnerability in the Debian OpenSSL package that resulted in predictable private keys. In 2008, a solution was implemented at Engine Yard to address slow SSH login times for GitHub users, involving patching OpenSSH to lookup keys..

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