Articles from ADMIN Issue 85
Whatever IT challenges you face in 2025, will you meet them with anger, fear, and indifference – or will you go forward with interest, curiosity, and humility?
In the news: Hetzner Announces S3-Compatible Object Storage; Ongoing Cyberattack Prompts New CISA Guidance for Communications Infrastructure; OpenMP 6.0 Released; Open Source Development Improves Software Security, Says LF Report; Most Organizations Are Unprepared for Climate-Related Disruptions; and SUSE Cloud Observability Announced.
We'll recap some noticeable and not so noticeable points of interest that came up during the largest, most attended Supercomputing Conference yet.
Bloonix integrates all the tools you need to monitor large IT infrastructures 24x7 to prevent failures.
Your web server is running perfectly according to Nagios, but is it delivering the intended user experience? End-to-end monitoring lets you know whether your application is performing as expected.
If you use Prometheus as a time series database, you will know that the more data it stores, the slower it becomes. Thanos, Cortex, Mimir, and M3DB set out to solve this problem in totally different ways. We reveal the candidates' strengths and weaknesses.
We explore automation techniques for the Azure Dev Box cloud service.
In the world of container virtualization, the operating systems of compute nodes are largely degraded to non-player characters that can do little more than start and stop containers. Talos Linux takes the game to the extreme and offers a system for Kubernetes that weighs in at less than 90MB.
Training language models and AI algorithms requires a powerful infrastructure that is difficult to create manually. Although Kubeflow promises a remedy, it is itself a complex monster … unless you are familiar with the right approach that lets you get it up and running fairly quickly.
The mitmproxy tool puts interactive traffic analysis in your hands.
