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Building an Open-Source Smart Building Assistant With Cloud LLM Models

The concept of smart buildings has gained significant traction in recent years, revolutionizing the way we interact with our living and working spaces.

August 23, 2023

by Ravi Jadhav

· 3,213 Views · 1 Like

Getting Started With Prometheus Workshop: Service Discovery

Interested in open-source observability? Learn about automating service discovery and how to scale your observability in dynamic cloud native environments.

August 21, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 3,540 Views · 3 Likes

Securing the Software Supply Chain: Chainguard Builds on Foundational Innovation

Automation, simplicity, and making robust supply chain security a seamless default for developers is the next evolution of software supply chain security.

August 21, 2023

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 3,434 Views · 2 Likes

Building and Sustaining an Open Source Community in the Context of Organizations

Explore how an open-source development model can contribute to better productivity, sustainability, and culture within an organization.

August 17, 2023

by Natnael Belay

· 6,798 Views · 1 Like

“Auth” Demystified: Authentication vs Authorization

People tend to lump authorization and authentication together and refer to them as “auth," but these two processes couldn't be more different.

August 16, 2023

by Noa Shavit

· 2,782 Views · 2 Likes

Securely Managing, Distributing, and Scaling Secrets Across Multiple Kubernetes Clusters

Fetch secrets from external secret management systems and securely distribute their content to a multitude of Kubernetes clusters.

August 16, 2023

by Gianluca Mardente

· 3,848 Views · 1 Like

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

· 3,450 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

· 7,593 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

· 1,933 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

· 3,171 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

· 3,992 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

· 3,570 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

· 4,263 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

· 5,820 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

· 6,980 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

· 4,530 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

· 4,111 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

· 5,780 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

· 5,409 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

· 7,282 Views · 3 Likes

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