The Day the Cloud Ran Out of Chips
Why AI demand and tight hardware supply make obtainability a third design goal beside performance and cost, and how ranked fallback tiers address it.
Twelve Years Without a VPN
What a decade of BeyondCorp zero trust taught, and a first read of Beyond Zero, which authorizes individual actions as AI agents join the workforce.
Managed Kubernetes pricing benchmark
TL;DR: Google Cloud has the most attractive pricing for Managed Kubernetes (based on March 2020 price lists). Most organisations that consider modernising their infrastructure and app stack, are moving to…
Why Not WireGuard
With increasing share of remote work, question of the right VPN protocol comes up more frequently. The “new” kind on the block is Wireguard. Source: https://www.ckn.io/blog/2017/11/14/wireguard-vpn-typical-setup/ Benchmark values speak a…
Reliability at scale
Enjoyed reading a story from Google Site Reliability Engineering about the way they trace problems. At Google scale, million-to-one chances happen all the time All incidents should be novel.
Cloud +600%, energy +6%
Data centers are the backbone of the digital world, they are responsible for 1% of world’s electricity use. Good news though – all hyperscalers (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) have worked hard…
Make yourself invisible
In case you want to share photos and videos on internet, but don’t want face recognition engines to identify you, there might be an interesting solution – a digital cloaking…
The antivirus is dead, long live the antivirus!
The good old times, the winning quality of antivirus solution depended on how fast would they find out about a new threat, then add its fingerprint to the signature files…
Head of Security at Apple about upcoming iOS 10, looks secure enough to me :-)
Here are his slides