cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27408560

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27384100

The global backlash against the second Donald Trump administration keeps on growing. Canadians have boycotted US-made products, anti–Elon Musk posters have appeared across London amid widespread Tesla protests, and European officials have drastically increased military spending as US support for Ukraine falters. Dominant US tech services may be the next focus.

There are early signs that some European companies and governments are souring on their use of American cloud services provided by the three so-called hyperscalers. Between them, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) host vast swathes of the Internet and keep thousands of businesses running. However, some organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including servers, storage, and databases—citing uncertainties around privacy and data acce

Tai užpylė serverinę priešgaisriniai čiaupai ar ne? :}

Will be interesting to see how it works out

The Indian nonprofit People+ai wants to fix this by creating an open and interoperable marketplace of cloud providers of all sizes. The Open Cloud Compute (OCC) project plans to use open protocols and standards to allow cloud providers of all sizes to offer their services on the network. It also plans to make it easy for customers to shift between offerings depending on their needs. People+ai held a hackathon on 20 September at People’s Education Society University (PES University) in Bengaluru to test out an early prototype of the platform.

Highlights

Failure is an expected state in production systems, and no predictable failure of either software or hardware components should result in a negative experience for users. The exact failure mode may vary, but certain remediation steps must be taken after detection. A common example is when an error occurs on a server, rendering it unfit for production workloads, and requiring action to recover.

It can be tempting to rely on the expertise of world-class engineers to remediate these faults, but this would be manual, repetitive, unlikely to produce enduring value, and not scaling.

The commonality of lower-priority failures makes it obvious when the response required, as defined in runbooks, is “toilsome”. To reduce this toil, we had previously implemented a plethora of solutions to automate runbook actions such as manually-invoked shell scripts, cron jobs, and ad-hoc software services. These had grown organically over time and provided solutions on a case-by-case basis,

We, humanz, are very good in creating SPOFs

Thousands of machines running Linux have been infected by a malware strain that’s notable for its stealth, the number of misconfigurations it can exploit, and the breadth of malicious activities it can perform, researchers reported Thursday.

The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. It can also exploit CVE-2023-33426, a vulnerability with a severity rating of 10 out of 10 that was patched last year in Apache RocketMQ, a messaging and streaming platform that’s found on many Linux machines.

Valtonen’s goal is to put CPUs back in their rightful, ‘central’ role. In order to do that, he and his team are proposing a new paradigm. Instead of trying to speed up computation by putting 16 identical CPU cores into, say, a laptop, a manufacturer could put 4 standard CPU cores and 64 of Flow Computing’s so-called parallel processing unit (PPU) cores into the same footprint, and achieve up to 100 times better performance. Valtonen and his collaborators laid out their case at the IEEE Hot Chips conference in August.

This is interesting and potentially useful for anyone, who works in the corp which does not allow Linux laptops, but you can get your hands on Macs.

This article will describe how to download an image from a (docker) container registry.

Manual Download of Container Images with wget and curl

Intro

Remember the good `'ol days when you could just download software by visiting a website and click "download"?

Even apt and yum repositories were just simple HTTP servers that you could just curl (or wget) from. Using the package manager was, of course, more secure and convenient -- but you could always just download packages manually, if you wanted.

But **have you

OG

How We Built the Internet

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• Author: Anna-Sofia Lesiv
• Category: article
• URL: https://every.to/p/how-we-built-the-internet

Highlights

The internet is a universe of its own.

The infrastructure that makes this scale possible is similarly astounding—a massive, global web of physical hardware, consisting of more than 5 billion kilometers of fiber-optic cable, more than 574 active and planned submarine cables that span a over 1 million kilometers in length, and a constellation of more than 5,400 satellites offering connectivity from low earth orbit (LEO).

“The Internet is no longer tracking the population of humans and the level of human use. The growth of the Internet is no longer bounded by human population growth, nor the number of hours in the day when humans are awake,” [writes](https://www.com

Incantations

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• Author: Jos Visser
• Category: rss
• URL: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/incantations

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The problem with incantations is that you don’t understand in what exact circumstances they work. Change the circumstances, and your incantations might work, might not work anymore, might do something else, or maybe worse, might do lots of damage. It is not safe to rely on incantations, you need to move to understanding.

How much are your 9's worth?

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• Author: Ross Brodbeck
• Category: rss
• URL: https://hross.substack.com/p/how-much-are-your-9s-worth

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All nines are not created equal. Most of the time I hear an extraordinarily high availability claim (anything above 99.9%) I immediately start thinking about how that number is calculated and wondering how realistic it is.

Human beings are funny, though. It turns out we respond pretty well to simplicity and order.

Having a single number to measure service health is a great way for humans to look at a table of historical availability and understand if service availability is getting better or worse. It’s also the best way to create accountability and measure behavior over time…

… as long as your measurement is reasonably accurate and not a vanity metric.

Cheat #1 - Measure the narrowest path possible.

This is the easiest way to cheat a 9’s metric. Many nines

How to calculate SLO

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/7752642

A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too

Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"

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We run a bit of software called tabelau, I have had to restart it over night and the server hit 113 on the load average. on a 16 core box.

please tell me thats mad for any software

Good overview on how it works and why being compliant does not mean being secure.