People in cities around the world who use subways to move around will often see or hear the warning to “mind the gap” – or something similar – a caution to riders to be aware of the space between the doors of the train and the station platform. …
There are few companies with a better handle on the pros and cons of serverless than learning hub, Khan Academy. …
Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. …
Cybersecurity has never been easy. As the amount of business being done on the internet has grown, enterprises, smaller businesses, HPC institutions and other organizations have had to develop and embrace technologies designed to protect mission-critical data and applications from an increasingly sophisticated underworld of hackers, nation-states and other cyber-criminals. …
Having to install a new kind of systems software stack and create applications is hard enough. …
Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. …
If time was any judge, no amount of money in the world could break through problems with poor CPU and server utilization. …
Getting peak utilization out of GPU farms in the age of AI will be the unending quest. …
Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen correctly asserted nearly a decade ago, but some parts of the world are crunchier than others and take some time for the hardware to be smashed open and for software to flow in and out of it. …
From the time Kubernetes was born in the labs at Google by engineers Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie and then contributed to the open source community, it has become the de facto orchestration platform for containers, enabling easier development, scaling and movement of modern applications between on-premises datacenters and the cloud and between the multiple clouds – public and private – that enterprises are embracing. …
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