Practical Technology

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

Rocky Linux’s governing board, the RESF, includes former Google director of engineering for open source, Chris DiBona, and Linux stable kernel maintainer, Greg Kroah-Hartman. The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) was established in early…Read More

When Microsoft announced it would be spending $10 billion on the next stage of its OpenAI partnership, everyone knew it was big news. The real question was: “What, exactly, would this mean?” Now we know. Today, during a surprise Microsoft in-person…Read More

In 2022, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation Research surveyed the cloud developer world. They found, to no surprise for anyone in the business, that cloud-native technologies are dominating the cloud application world.…Read More