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DARPA Taps Hackers to Fortify Critical Software Against Cyber Threats

Competition challenges top AI and cybersecurity talent to automatically find and fix software vulnerabilities, defend critical infrastructure from cyberattacks

August 16, 2023

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 3,436 Views · 1 Like

What Is a Service Mesh and Why Is It Needed for Kubernetes?

A service mesh platform, like Istio, reduces the complexity of scaling Kubernetes workloads by providing networking, security, and observability features.

August 14, 2023

by Anas T

· 7,588 Views · 12 Likes

Stable Diffusion: The Community’s AI

Stable Diffusion AI is revolutionizing the art industry with innovative technology that boosts creativity and transforms our appreciation of art.

August 14, 2023

by Isaac Alvarez

· 1,929 Views · 1 Like

What to Know About Using Open Source FreeBSD as Your Operating System

The fully open-source FreeBSD operating system is still going strong; here's why it is being deployed in a mission-critical use case.

August 10, 2023

by Jason Kafer

· 3,166 Views · 7 Likes

Centralized Resource Display for Multiple Kubernetes Clusters

It isn't easy to track resources across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Sveltos provides a centralized dashboard for viewing resources across multiple clusters.

August 10, 2023

by Gianluca Mardente

· 3,985 Views · 1 Like

Apache Kafka as Workflow and Orchestration Engine

Architectures and case studies for data streaming with the Apache Kafka ecosystem as stateful workflow orchestration and BPM engine.

August 8, 2023

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 3,563 Views · 2 Likes

How We Built a High-Performance Storage Layer for Our Ultra-Heterogeneous Computing Cluster

This post takes a deep dive into storage challenges, why JuiceFS was chosen over s3fs and Alluxio, how it is used, issues encountered, and their solutions.

August 7, 2023

by chen hong

· 4,257 Views · 3 Likes

Why Developers Should Contribute To Open Source

This article explores why developers should actively contribute to open source and how it can benefit their professional growth and the software industry.

August 2, 2023

by Ravi Jadhav

· 5,807 Views · 7 Likes

Apache APISIX Without etcd

etcd is an excellent piece of infrastructure Kubernetes uses, but there might be better choices in some contexts. Here, learn how you can use MySQL with APISIX.

July 31, 2023

by Nicolas Fränkel

CORE

· 6,977 Views · 1 Like

Key Developer Concepts and Tools in Software Supply Chain Security

By harnessing provenance, developers and security teams can lock down the entire software supply chain and prevent the exploitation of artifacts.

July 31, 2023

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 4,519 Views · 3 Likes

Turbocharge Your Apache Spark Jobs for Unmatched Performance

This article delves into optimizing Apache Spark jobs, identifying common performance issues, and key optimization techniques with practical code examples.

July 17, 2023

by Mohamed Manzoor Ul Hassan

· 4,107 Views · 3 Likes

Podman: Advantages and Disadvantages

Podman is a popular container management tool that has gained traction as an alternative to Docker. Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using Podman.

July 16, 2023

by Aditya Bhuyan

· 5,770 Views · 2 Likes

Observability Architecture: Financial Calculations Example

Explore open-source cloud-based o11y financial calculations architecture with a schematic diagram that captures the elements of a successful solution.

July 11, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

· 5,405 Views · 4 Likes

Kubernetes: Advantages and Disadvantages

Discover the advantages and drawbacks of implementing an application with Kubernetes, a popular container orchestration system.

July 7, 2023

by Aditya Bhuyan

· 7,267 Views · 3 Likes

Smaller Is Better: Ultra-Compact Graph Representations for Big Graphs

Learn about loading 17 billion triples into TerminusDB on one machine using parallel ingests, concatenation, streaming, and a low memory footprint to provide a queryable database.

July 6, 2023

by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

· 3,569 Views · 1 Like

How To Improve GraphQL API Security

Open-source GraphQL has become increasingly popular for API modernization — but securing GraphQL deployments requires foresight and smart execution.

June 29, 2023

by Cristi Vlad

· 4,237 Views · 3 Likes

O11y Guide: Without Observability, It's Just Code

Learn what makes cloud-native observability so crucial to your organization's success and find out why without observability, it's just code that you are deploying.

June 28, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 6,277 Views · 4 Likes

Ory vs Keycloak vs SuperTokens

Open-source authentication has seen great progress over recent years. In this post, compare three of the leading open-source authentication providers.

June 27, 2023

by Advait Ruia

· 2,953 Views · 1 Like

Observability Architecture: Financial Payments Example

Explore open-source cloud-based o11y financial payments architecture with a schematic diagram that captures the elements of a successful payment solution.

June 21, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

· 6,194 Views · 3 Likes

Real-World Cyberattacks Targeting Data Science Tools

Aqua Nautilus researchers explore how to protect Jupyter Notebook and other popular data science tools against crypto mining and ransomware attacks.

June 21, 2023

by Assaf Morag

· 3,669 Views · 1 Like

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