Practical Technology

Earlier this year, when Akamai bought infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform provider Linode for about $900 million, it wasn’t clear how Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN) and security services would work well with Linode’s…Read More

Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, and it appears he’s already failing on his promise not to turn Twitter into a ‘free-for-all hellscape.’ But, I’m not here to talk about his policy blunders. That’s a story for another day. No, I’m here to predict…Read More

It’s a debate that goes all the way back to whether you should tell Fred that Barney gets two more clams than he is as a Bronto crane operator at Slate Rock and Gravel Company: Should you be open with your employees about their salaries — or keep it…Read More

If you’re a programmer, you already know about Stack Overflow. It’s a developer site where questions about all languages and problems are asked and answered. Every programmer uses it and knows jokes about developers who cobble their programs together…Read More

At first, it looked like the OpenSSL 3.x security bug was going to be truly awful. While it was feared to be a critical error that could lead to remote code execution (RCE), upon a closer examination it turned out to be not so horrid after all.…Read More

The bad news is that you can install newer visions of Kubernetes and — Bang! — you can’t network with your worker nodes. The good news is a Mirantis engineer found some fixes and is sharing them. There’s nothing quite so much as setting up a bright…Read More