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Technology

Google Blew It With Open Source Layoffs

The decision to cut people who built the foundation that supports Google’s open source and cloud successes seems incredibly shortsighted. Google has made impressive inroads against cloud leader AWS by aggressively open…

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Tools

Verify Cloud Run Service Availability With New Dedicated Uptime Checks

A great end user experience is essential to the success of any business. Increasingly, businesses have come to rely on web applications to run their key processes. Any downtime or…

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5 min

Platforms

Improved gVisor File System Performance For GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine And Cloud Functions

Flexible application architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and container workloads often run untrusted code and hence should be isolated from sensitive infrastructure. One common solution has been to deploy defense-in-depth products (like…

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3 min

Computing

Introducing Security Command Center’s Project-Level, Pay-As-You-Go Options

One of the toughest challenges security teams can face occurs when IT leaders recognize the urgency to secure their organization’s cloud workloads and data, but operational hurdles create delays that…

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5 min

Solutions

How Microservices And Cloud IT Helped A Popular Appointment Booking Service Scale 200 Percent

It’s a Friday afternoon and you’re heading home to New York after a two week vacation from somewhere that’s been on your bucket list since you were 12. You find…

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3 min

Engineering

4 Open Source Technologies To Make Writing Easier

If you are getting started in technical writing, you might be interested in this list of open technologies that make technical writing easier. I teach university courses on the side,…

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4 min

Data

How Iron Mountain Uses Assured Workloads To Serve Our Customers’ Compliance Needs

Editor’s note: Data storage experts Iron Mountain turned to Google Cloud when they wanted to scale their digital business. David Williams, cloud manager at Iron Mountain, explains in this post…

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Prometheus — Easy In, Difficult Out

Prometheus has become the de facto standard for time series metrics for both Cloud Native and legacy environments. Many technologies in the CNCF Landscape already include a Prometheus metrics endpoint and there are metric exporters for…

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Google Blew It With Open Source Layoffs

Verify Cloud Run Service Availability With New Dedicated Uptime Checks

Improved gVisor File System Performance For GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine And Cloud Functions

Introducing Security Command Center’s Project-Level, Pay-As-You-Go Options

How Microservices And Cloud IT Helped A Popular Appointment Booking Service Scale 200 Percent

4 Open Source Technologies To Make Writing Easier

How Iron Mountain Uses Assured Workloads To Serve Our Customers’ Compliance Needs

Prometheus — Easy In, Difficult Out

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