AWS Secrets Manager helps manage and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. It can be used for applications hosted outside of AWS or in a hybrid cloud environment, and provides recommended practices for securely retrieving secrets... read more  

The blog post discusses the author's experience using the offensive security toolPacuto test the security vulnerabilities in AWS environments, specifically focusing on an IAM user privilege escalation scan. It emphasizes the importance of implementing the principle of least privilege in IAM policies.. read more  

Prometheus is a widely used open-source monitoring and alerting solution in the Kubernetes ecosystem and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It has a powerful alerting mechanism that allows users to define alerts based on collected metrics and send notifications to various channels. Managing Promethe.. read more  

The article focuses on creating and testing a Kubernetes operator using operator-sdk and highlights the use of envtest, Ginkgo, and Gomega for testing. It provides code snippets for testing the creation, update, and deletion of an application and concludes by highlighting the benefits of using opera.. read more  

Virtual machines are a crucial component of cloud computing, and optimizing them is essential for cost efficiency. Steps to optimize VMs include cleaning up unnecessary VMs and disks, considering alternative architectures, and selecting the appropriate VM instance type based on workload requirements.. read more  

Artifact Analysis in partnership with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has introduced Advanced Vulnerability Insights, which provides scanning and vulnerability detection in Java, Go, Javascript, and Python language packages. It can be enabled on a per-cluster basis and allows customers to view vulner.. read more  

Support for Python 3.11 with Azure Functions is now generally available. You can now develop Python 3.11 apps locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans. For more information on newly supported features, seeWhat’s New In Python 3.11... read more  

Git stores files in a directory called ".git/objects," and every previous version of each file in the repository is located there. It employs a "content addressed storage" strategy, where the filename of an object is the hash of its content... read more  

In recent Ethereum Mainnet research, a significant number of organic big blocks (>250 KB) were uncovered, with over 8.2% of blocks from March 1st, 2023, to August 31st, 2023, falling into this category. These findings shed light on block propagation times based on geographical location and block siz.. read more  

Schema migrations in databases can be challenging due to potential breaking changes, multiple intricate steps, unexpected locks, and difficult rollbacks. To address these issues, Xata has developed pgroll, an open-source tool for Postgres databases that simplifies schema migrations by allowing users.. read more