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RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

The Register contrastszramandzswap. It flags a patch that claims up to 50% fasterzramops. It notes Fedora enableszramby default. It details thatzramprovides compressed inโ€‘RAM swap (LZ4).zswapcompresses pages before writing to disk and requires onโ€‘disk swap... read more ย 

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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm

A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the projectโ€™s GitHub releases... read more ย 

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Deployment strategies: Types, trade-offs, and how to choose

Deployment strategies control traffic shifts, rollback speed, and release risk. Options:canary,blueโ€‘green,rolling,feature flags,shadow,immutable, andGitOps. Strategies trade production risk for setup cost. They pair withArgo Rollouts,Kayenta,ArgoCD/Flux, service meshes, and flag platforms. Pipelines.. read more ย 

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Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons from Tech Lead to CTO

The post discusses performance issues related to page counts, long cron-job reads, RAM pressure, and offloading work to background jobs. It also touches on common sources of front-end performance issues, the importance of running EXPLAIN on DB queries, and the benefits of cultivating a culture of op.. read more ย 

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Scaling Autonomous Site Reliability Engineering: Architecture, Orchestration, and Validation for a 90,000+ Server Fle

Cloudways scaled from a bootstrapped startup to a leading managed PHP hosting service, encountering challenges with growing support load. Early on, Cloudways recognized the opportunity to implement an AI-based SRE agent to reduce the burden on support teams and provide faster diagnosis and resolutio.. read more ย 

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Kata Containers is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project designed to close the security gap between traditional Linux containers and virtual machines. Instead of sharing a single host kernel like standard containers, Kata Containers launches each pod or container inside its own lightweight virtual machine using hardware virtualization.

This approach dramatically reduces the attack surface and prevents container escape vulnerabilities, making Kata ideal for multi-tenant, untrusted, or sensitive workloads. Despite using VMs under the hood, Kata is optimized for fast startup times and integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes through the Container Runtime Interface (CRI), allowing it to be used alongside runtimes like containerd and CRI-O.

Kata Containers is commonly used in scenarios such as multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, confidential computing, sandboxed AI workloads, serverless platforms, and agent execution environments where strong isolation is mandatory. It supports multiple hypervisors, including QEMU, Firecracker, and Cloud Hypervisor, and continues to evolve toward faster boot times, lower memory overhead, and better hardware acceleration support.