Practical Technology

Akamai wants it own slice of the cloud pie. In an attempt to take some marketshare away from the “Big 3” cloud providers, this week, it launched the Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, security…Read More

SEATTLE: At the first CloudNativeSecurityCon here, the good news is that cloud native computing has made creating and delivering software faster than ever. The bad news is the security problems are coming just as fast. In the first keynote, Priyanka…Read More

Column You probably knew Google’s ChromeOS is a Linux distribution. But, now, it’s running on more than Linux under the hood. I didn’t, and I’ve been covering Chrome OS like paint since the day it arrived. Today, your newer Chromebook also depends on…Read More

Well, I didn’t see that coming! The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently proposed a regulation banning employers from imposing non-compete “agreements” on their workers. That works for me. I’ve had to sign non-competes over the years, and I’ve…Read More

Not so long ago, in the 1990s, online users had their choice of a variety of search engines. They included Excite, WebCrawler, Lycos, and my favorite at the time, AltaVista. Then, along came Google and PageRank. With PageRank, Google rates the…Read More

Linux kernel’s extended BPF (eBPF) has become a stand-out open-source tool for monitoring and manipulating cloud-based Linux containers at a deep level and one of eBPF’s biggest fans is Amazon Web Services (AWS). “At AWS, we love eBPG,” said Jeremy…Read More