GC - #22 I wish Zach was Here

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Giant Conversations Episode #22

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Giant Swarm 2024 Onsite Marrakech

Swarmalicious News

IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost. IBM continues it's effort to bolster its IT and FinOps capabilities as enterprises increasingly look to better manage their increasingly complex cloud and on-prem infrastructure.

Linux is now a RTOS. PREEMPTRT Real-Time Kernel Support Finally Merged into Linux 6.12 After 20 Years in Development!. PREEMPTRT changes the game by making the Linux kernel way more predictable for real-time tasks. It does this by reducing the time the system can ignore high-priority processes. The kernel becomes fully "preemptible," meaning almost any part of the system can stop what it's doing to handle a more urgent task immediately.

What the heck is Platform-as-a-Product?. Colleague Dominik Kress spoke about these talks in episode 21.

Message from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy - They will return to office 5 days a week

A safety net against "whoops, I just deleted production cluster - Introducing Kubesafe. Colleague Łukasz Piątkowski mentioned he hasn't installed it yet, but is looking forward to testing it.

1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing - The 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) will bring together researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in low carbon and sustainable computing. The workshop will provide a forum for sharing new ideas, for presenting ongoing work and early results, as well as for bringing forward well-founded criticism.

I wish Zach was here

gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website and more information can be found on Cloud Flare Radar: https://radar.cloudflare.com/

Redefining CNAPP: A Complete Guide To the Future of Cloud Security. Out CTO Timo Derstappen went for it and prompted an entire Podcast from this article using Googles notebooklm