January 10, 2022
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Comments Off on FTC Says Fix Log4j Security Vulnerability or Face Its Wrath
It’s not like the four — count ’em, four — Log4j security vulnerabilities aren’t more than just trouble in and of themselves. Just check in with the Belgian defense ministry to see what they have to say about it. Now, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission … Continue reading
January 6, 2022
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Comments Off on Salt Security Finds Serious GraphQL API Security Hole
GraphQL, the open source query language for application programming interfaces (APIs), is very powerful. With great power comes great responsibility, as Spider-Man reminds us, and sometimes developers go badly wrong. And, that’s exactly what happened, according to Salt Security, a leading … Continue reading
January 6, 2022
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Solo BumbleBee makes Linux eBPF programming easier
In 1992, the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) was introduced in Unix circles as a new, improved network packet filter. Nice, but not that big a deal. Then, in 2014, it was changed and brought into the Linux kernel as extended BPF (eBPF). Again, … Continue reading
January 3, 2022
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Comments Off on Cleaning up the Linux kernel’s ‘Dependency Hell’: This developer is proposing 2,200 commit changes
Last year, Linux’s source code came to a whopping 27.8 million lines of code. It’s only gotten bigger since then. Like any 30-year old software project, Linux has picked up its fair share of cruft over the years. Now, after months of … Continue reading
June 2, 2021
by sjvn01
Comments Off on GitOps: The next step in cloud-native development
What do you get when you combine DevOps management and the Git distributed version control system? Say hello to GitOps. Automation makes software better and more reliable. GitOps takes automation a step further and merges it with deployment. DevOps, in … Continue reading
January 20, 2021
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Comments Off on Red Hat introduces free RHEL for small production workloads and development team
When Red Hat announced it was switching up CentOS Linux from a stable Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone to a rolling Linux distribution, which would become the next minor RHEL update, many CentOS users were upset. Now, to appease some of those users, Red Hat is introducing no-cost … Continue reading