Programming
Adapt Your App For The Latest Privacy Best Practices
Android 11 final release is here! This release builds upon the privacy improvements in previous releases, and provides even better control and transparency for users as well as guardrails to help apps handle data responsibly. Many of these improvements reinforce modern best practices applicable to recent Android releases (they aren’t specific to Android 11!). In this …
Enhancing The DevOps Experience On Kubernetes With Logging
Keeping track of what’s going on in Kubernetes isn’t easy. It’s an environment where things move quickly, individual containers come and go, and a large number of independent processes involving separate users may all be happening at the same time. Container-based systems are by their nature optimized for rapid, efficient response to a heavy load …
6 Steps To Successful Mainframe Modernization
Mainframe modernization is typically viewed as a multiyear, transformational journey that requires long planning phases and a massive buildout before any returns can be realized. To be sure, there are many enticing short-term migration options, like offloading work to cheaper processors, getting volume discounts from your mainframe provider, using hardware and middleware emulators, leveraging COBOL-to-Java …
Introducing Opacus: A High-speed Library For Training PyTorch Models With Differential Privacy
We are releasing Opacus, a new high-speed library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy (DP) that’s more scalable than existing state-of-the-art methods. Differential privacy is a mathematically rigorous framework for quantifying the anonymization of sensitive data. It’s often used in analytics, with growing interest in the machine learning (ML) community. With the release of Opacus, …
Kubernetes Logging And Monitoring: What Kubernetes Can And Can’t Do Natively
Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool, but its functionality extends far beyond just orchestrating containers in a narrow sense. It offers a range of additional features that—to a limited extent—address needs such as load balancing, access control, security policy enforcement, and even logging and monitoring. Indeed, Kubernetes’s broad functionality has led some folks to call it …
Introduction To LitmusChaos
LitmusChaos is a CNCF sandbox project. Its mission is to help Kubernetes SREs and developers to find weaknesses in Kubernetes platform and applications running on Kubernetes by providing a complete Chaos Engineering framework and associated chaos experiments. In this article, we will discuss Why is resilience important for Kubernetes? How to achieve it using Litmus? State of Kubernetes Thanks to …
Kubernetes RBAC 101: Authorization
In our final article on Kubernetes RBAC, we are focusing on RBAC itself. Everything else in the series led towards this key piece. In part one we discussed authentication and authorization on a high level and in part two we focused specifically on authentication. Now let’s dive into authorization. As usual with Kubernetes being so extensible, there are …
Solving the AIOps, DevOps, And ITSM Conundrum
Quickly shifting to remote work has enterprises looking to meet the ops needs of a suddenly distributed team, and there are open source options to get them there. The recent mad rush to scale to remote work may prove to be a key chapter in DevOps and AIOps evolution. This need for rapid, widescale change …
Extended Retention For Custom And Prometheus Metrics In Cloud Monitoring
Metrics help you understand how your business and applications are performing. Longer metric retention enables quarter-over-quarter or year-over-year analysis and reporting, forecasting seasonal trends, retention for compliance, and much more. We recently announced the general availability (GA) of extended metric retention for custom and Prometheus metrics in Cloud Monitoring, increasing retention from 6 weeks to 24 months. Extended …
Introducing Swift Cluster Membership
It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift Cluster Membership. This library aims to help Swift grow in a new space of server applications: clustered multi-node distributed systems. With this library we provide reusable runtime-agnostic membership protocol implementations which can be adopted in various clustering use-cases. Background Cluster membership …