IEEE Spectrum opinion: Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability A 2024 plea for lean software
"The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected. Because of this, there is a huge attack surface full of mediocre code."
⚠️February brings changes as #AWS now charges USD 0.005 per hour for public #IPv4 addresses!
The new charge has been implemented across all AWS regions and services, including EC2 instances, RDS databases, EKS nodes, and other service-managed public IPv4 addresses.
This morning, a VPS hosting a small e-commerce site (powered by WooCommerce on Ubuntu 22.04) experienced another out-of-memory issue. A colleague (one of the developers) urgently called me, asking to upgrade the VPS due to excessive load.
I pointed out (again, as has often happened in recent weeks) that a VPS with 32GB of RAM (!!!) and 16 dedicated cores (!!!) should not run out of memory with just five simultaneous visits to a small e-commerce site. We host much larger and busier websites on much smaller VPSs. There's likely a WordPress module with a leak, or some interaction between modules causing this issue.
The response: Okay, but just add more RAM and power to solve it.
The illusion of "infinite resources" in the Cloud has led to poor development habits. Sometimes I wonder how much energy and resources we waste (and pollution we generate) due to a lack of basic optimization.
heise Security Webinar: Microsofts Entra ID – Angriffe verstehen und verhindern
Im Zentrum der sicheren Nutzung der Microsoft-Cloud steht Entra ID aka Azure AD. Dieses Webinar zeigt dessen Probleme und wie man sie in den Griff bekommt.
📣 AWS Embraces Team Topologies as a Foundational Standard!
Exciting news for DevOps and organizational design enthusiasts! (SO, basically everyone at Team Topologies) AWS has officially integrated the our model into its core standards. Find out more ▶️
1,2 Milliarden Euro Beihilfen für Vernetzung der EU-Clouds
Ein EU-Programm für eine industrielle Cloud (IPCEI-CIS) nimmt Gestalt an. Unter den Beteiligten sind die Deutsche Telekom, Orange, SAP, Siemens und Telefónica.
❓ Is there a server provider in Australia (preferably Sydney) that can get me an affordable VM for a week or two?
The reason is this: I'm a German game developer and I'll be spending 5 weeks in Australia soon. I'm planning to do some remote work while I'm there. I will have a laptop with me but it's not powerful enough to work on the game. It also lacks Windows, which is the main issue.
In Europe, I can rent a VM that lets me upload my own ISO files and basically have a desktop in the cloud for 20-40€ a month. But in Australia, it looks like any decent server will cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Is there really orders of magnitude in price difference, or am I just not looking in the right place?
Ausprobiert: Edge- und On-Premises-Cloud mit Canonicals MicroCloud
Einen hochverfügbaren Rechencluster zu konfigurieren, ist keine einfache Übung. Mit MicroCloud will Canonical den Prozess auf wenige Befehle eindampfen.
heise+ | Projekt für "souveräne" Dateninfrastruktur: Was aus Gaia-X wurde
Gaia-X wurde von der Bundesregierung mit über 300 Millionen Euro gefördert. Doch das Ökosystem aus zertifizierten Clouddiensten lässt weiter auf sich warten.
heise+ | Nextcloud Hub 4: solides Fundament mit KI-Einbindung
Nextcloud hat sich zu einer Kollaborationsplattform entwickelt. Version 26 bessert überall nach – und zeigt, wie gut es gegen die Konkurrenz bestehen kann.
Internetdienstleister Ionos meldet einen Ausfall an seinem Rechenzentrums-Standort in Frankfurt. Laut Nutzerberichten sollen die Probleme schwerwiegend sein.
Exciting news from the thought leaders in software architecture and design! Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais, the minds behind "Team Topologies," have contributed yet another powerful concept to the tech community: Independent Service Heuristics (ISH).