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Year in Review: Containers Get Smaller, Faster, More Secure
Yelp uses thousands of containers as part of its webscale operations. And one of its number one challenges with containers is security, said Tom Robinson, Yelp software engineer, in a talk at...
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Infrastructure as Code in 2024: Why It’s Still So Terrible
From deep within the Looker traffic reports of The New Stack, we have unearthed the most viewed posts from 2024 about the subject of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Collectively, what they show is that,...
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Reddit No Longer Haunted by Drifting Kubernetes Configurations
When Reddit went down on March 13, 2022, it was a rude reminder that the company needed to manage its infrastructure in a different way. The notorious “Pi Day” site-wide outage, which, coincidentally,...
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Vector Processing: Understand This New Revolution in Search
“Vectorize EVERYTHING!” These were the words of wisdom from Nyah Macklin, Neo4j senior developer advocate, in a presentation on vector databases at All Things Open 2024. Vectorized data is going to be...
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Spacelift Scales Legacy Automation: Terraform First, Ansible Next
Last week saw the 1.9 release of OpenTofu, a fork of HashiCorp Terraform brought about due to licensing restrictions, making it a full year since the first full 1.0 release of the Infrastructure as...
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eBPF Tool Identifies Cross-Zone Kubernetes Network Traffic
Like most cloud providers, Google does not charge users for networking traffic within a single availability zone. Google currently has 124 availability zones, which are spread out over 41 regions....
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Cloud Native Computing Now Has Its Own File System: CubeFS
What’s a Kubernetes-based distributed system without a proper file system, one that cleanly separates the computer from the storage layer? Now the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has a...
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What Makes TikTok’s Algorithms So Effective?
On Tuesday, the newly-elected U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that gave TikTok a 75-day reprieve from being shut down in the U.S. by the Justice Department, much to the...
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ICYMI: DeepSeek Is an Open Source Success Story
Nvidia stockholders have about $400 billion less in their pockets today thanks to the open source efforts of a Chinese AI startup company called DeepSeek. And OpenAI, as well as the other commercial...
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Netkit to Network a Million Containers for ByteDance
Engineers from the Chinese social media conglomerate ByteDance are taking early advantage of a recently released feature of the Linux kernel called netkit that provides a faster way for containers to...
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Percona Backs Valkey With Enterprise-Grade Support
Percona, which provides enterprise support for open source database systems such as MongoDB and MySQL, has expanded its portfolio to also support the open source Valkey in-memory data store as well,...
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US Moves To Designate Agency CIOs as Political Appointees
In the federal U.S. government, there are two types of employees, roughly speaking. One is the career-long civil servant, dedicated to the mission of the agency, who, true to the cause, stays put no...
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Object Store Apps: Cloud Native’s Freshest Architecture
Perhaps even for the first time since 2006 when Amazon Web Services had launched its Simple Storage Service (s3), object storage is hot again. An increasing number of start-ups and end-users find that...
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AI Dev Tools: How To Containerize Agents Using Dagger
We’ll need to standardize the process of building AI agents, so why not look to the container ecosystem for inspiration? This was the takeaway from a talk by Docker creator and CEO of Dagger, Solomon...
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Bypass Docker Hub Rate Limits With This Stateless Image Cache
On March 1, Docker will start enforcing its latest rate limits for pulling images from Docker Hub. While the professional (paid) accounts will still enjoy generous downloads, personal accounts will be...
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Save Valuable GenAI Tokens With This One Simple Trick
Large Language Model (LLM)-based Generative AI services such as OpenAI or Google Gemini are better at some tasks more so than others, advised Wei-Meng Lee, technologist and founder of Developer...
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Langflow, Cassandra: IBM’s DataStax Buy
The Greek Goddess Cassandra was known for foretelling the future, and now IBM is planning that its namesake open source database system and its associated tools will help its enterprise customers do...
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PostgreSQL Operator Joins CNCF Sandbox Stage
In its ongoing efforts to build out a full stack of open source cloud native technologies, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has accepted an open source Kubernetes operator for the PostgreSQL...
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FerretDB 2.0: Open Source MongoDB With PostgreSQL Power
A new project from the founders of Percona, FerretDB has set out to offer an open source alternative to the MongoDB NoSQL documented-oriented database system. FerretDB is not a fork, nor a rewrite of...
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Reinforcement Learning Pioneers Honored With ACM Turing Prize
Two researchers’ early theoretical work on reinforcement learning was recognized Wednesday, as the Association for Computing Machinery named researchers Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the...
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Model Context Protocol Bridges LLMs to the Apps They Need
“This is very much like microservices, but we are bringing in intelligence,” said Mahesh Murag, Anthropic engineer for applied AI, describing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source born at...
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How Slack Transformed Cron into a Distributed Job Scheduler
For a decade, Slack ran its cron jobs on a single server. But when the server started having issues and chewing up maintenance time, the company’s admins knew a more resilient job scheduler was...
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How Canva Keeps Its Image Metadata Fresh
Before 2020, the word “cottagecore” pretty much didn’t exist. But the Covid pandemic spurred a lot of people looking into making their own homes a lot more comfy, and generally romanticizing a...
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KubeCon EU 2025: Aviatrix’s Enterprise Firewall for Kubernetes
Kubernetes networking admins attending KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU in London next week will need to visit booth S653. There, cloud networking service provider Aviatrix will be demonstrating its new...
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How To Generate ‘AI’ From a Database: Bruce Momjian
The next time you ask ChatGPT or another Generative AI service a question, take note of the order of the words in the answer you get. The last few words in your query will almost invariably be the...
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KubeCon EU 2025: Komodor’s Fix for Configuration Drift
Kubernetes networking admins attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London next week should stop by Booth N330 to learn how they can prevent Kubernetes configuration drift. The new Komodor...
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