Cloud Musings

JANUARY 12, 2015

The line-up will include: The Open Source Cloud – Dave Nielsen Is MEAN Stack the new LAMP Stack? End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate. This will be the third CloudCamp in Bangladesh.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This weekend, lightning-fast demonstrations from Groq AI captured the public’s attention, showcasing capabilities that make current iterations of ChatGPT , Gemini , and even Grok appear slow by comparison. Wow, that's a lot of tweets tonight! FAQs responses. •

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development. Google Gemma AI represents a suite of lightweight language models released for open-source use. What is Google Gemma AI?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In the process, it copied the “structure, sequence, and organization” of some Java application programming interface (API) packages, which enable basic computing actions. A recurring comparison to keyboards was more sympathetic to Google. If you let somebody have a copyright on that now, they would control all typewriters.”.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

In fraud or abuse prevention applications, models often need to react to new patterns in minutes or even seconds! Amazon SageMaker algorithms train larger models on more data than any other open-source solution out there. Finally, re-training is performed every x-many minutes/hours/days to keep the models updated with new data.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Apple has shown great skill in designing an easy-to-use mobile operating system, while Android has been increasingly developing their product to be more intuitive and give you more control over it’s OS and applications. Cameras vary with Android phones, however Galaxy S8 and iPhone X give each other a good challenge in comparison.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

ZAP is an open-source web application security scanner that can be used by both those new to application security as well as professional penetration testers. Create a user in the application and get a bearer token: curl --location --request POST "[link]. header 'Content-Type: application/json'.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Check back next time! and vSphere.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

ZAP is an open-source web application security scanner that can be used by both those new to application security as well as professional penetration testers. Create a user in the application and get a bearer token: curl --location --request POST "[link]. header 'Content-Type: application/json'.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Check out the GitHub repository. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Check out the GitHub repository. Virtualization.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this article, we’ll delve into the world of Mistral 7B, exploring its features, achievements, and potential applications. This versatility opens doors to a wide range of enterprise-centric applications. One notable aspect of Mistral 7B is its open-source nature, released under the Apache 2.0

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Check out the GitHub repository. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Marcos Hernandez (a colleague on the NSX team at VMware) recently pointed out this Heat template for a multi-tier application with dynamic routing (via Quagga). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

Whether you’re building an application, or you’re running complex infrastructure for a large corporation, you’ll eventually encounter repetitive tasks that need to be completed again and again. Ansible is an open source tool that has been backed by Red Hat since 2015. Managing Your Applications and Infrastructure with Terraform.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. Perhaps you feel a little bit like Kev Gorman, and are wondering what in the heck is CNA (cloud-native applications), anyway? Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. Perhaps you feel a little bit like Kev Gorman, and are wondering what in the heck is CNA (cloud-native applications), anyway? Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Customers have told us that they need to be able to run Mayhem locally so that they can: ”Get feedback more quickly in case my runs fail” Not have to wait for anything to upload or for workers on the deployment to become available in order to test their application. Note that for OAuth 2.0, ZAP Integration (Mayhem for API).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What has happened since then has been enough to make some of those numbers look minuscule by comparison. More recently, though, developers have grown fond of an alternative blockchain, Ethereum, which is designed to let them create decentralized applications through more sophisticated smart contracts than Bitcoin enables.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Most folks have probably heard about 12 Factor Applications (see here if you haven’t or if you need a refresher); this article talks about 12 basic rules and good practices for using Kubernetes optimally.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 9, 2023

As software applications become increasingly complex, it becomes imperative to adopt effective techniques that can uncover potential issues and enhance the overall quality of the codebase. Dynamic code analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of software applications.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 7, 2024

This new text-to-image AI, towering with 12 billion parameters, sets a new benchmark in the realm of open-source visual generation. For professional-grade applications, Flux Pro provides exclusive access through a sophisticated API, catering to high-demand commercial projects. How to try Flux AI?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2019

” Whether you’re writing unit tests for your programs or finding bugs in closed-source third-party software, knowing what code you have and have not covered is an important piece of information. As a demonstration, let’s walk through an open source project that has built-in test resources.

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Kitaboo

MAY 13, 2024

Here is a detailed eBook file format comparison along with their pros and cons: TXT (.txt) Android devices, for instance, can view plain text using any note or an Office application, while computers have text editors that allow for the viewing of plain text. txt) Format A plain text file is one of the most basic eBook file formats.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2024

“Our most innovative customers and partners have increasingly been asking for local, privacy-first inference for critical applications,” Mistral explained. For comparison, even OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo caps out around the same token count, and that’s no small feat. That’s the equivalent of a 50-page book. Image credits: Mistral

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

As more organizations rely on HPC to speed time to results, especially for their data-intensive applications, the $40B market [1] faces challenges and opportunities. It’s important to note that more research and benchmark comparisons are needed to help customers make the best decisions. And in HPC, community is important.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Non-code contributions are, in my opinion, an important but oft-overlooked aspect of open source communities. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Operating Systems/Applications. I, for one, was very glad to see this. He recently hit post number 100 in the series.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Only large enterprises, such as AT&T, had the computing power and the developers to create their own applications. What’s a worm?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. Only large enterprises, such as AT&T, had the computing power and the developers to create their own applications. What’s a worm?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. And traditional application security tools like static analysis, they couldn’t find it. No shame in that.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. And traditional application security tools like static analysis, they couldn’t find it. No shame in that.

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Vox

JUNE 14, 2023

Researchers and users have identified anti-Black biases in AI applications ranging from hiring to robots to loans. Like many forms of discrimination, AI bias disproportionately impacts communities that historically or presently face oppression. Facial recognition software has a long history of failing to recognize Black faces. What is AI?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And how many other serious vulnerabilities like Heartbleed are lurking unknown in the applications we use everyday, in the websites we depend on, and in the devices we carry. And traditional application security tools like static analysis, they couldn’t find it. No shame in that.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2019

” Whether you’re writing unit tests for your programs or finding bugs in closed-source third-party software, knowing what code you have and have not covered is an important piece of information. As a demonstration, let’s walk through an open source project that has built-in test resources.

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