Last week, over 8.5 million Windows machines worldwide crashed due to a CrowdStrike update that caused the CSAgent.sys process to write to an invalid memory address, resulting in the "Blue Screen of Death". Recovery was slow and manual, with each impacted machine needing individual fixing, and lesso.. read more  

The post discusses the challenges faced by the Owlbot load testing system at loveholidays. By analyzing the bottleneck in theripleyload generator, the team was able to optimize the replay algorithm and improve performance significantly. The changes made, such as adjusting theMaxIdleConnsPerHostvalue.. read more  

Canonical will now ship the latest upstream kernel code in development at the time of a new Ubuntu release, even if it is still in Release Candidate (RC) status. This new policy aims to provide users with the latest features and hardware support, differing from the current method where stable kernel.. read more  

Netflix uses Amazon AWS to host its infrastructure across multiple regions, improving content delivery by serving traffic closer to users. During an investigation of cross-region traffic issues, engineers discovered a kernel upgrade impacting TCP receive window calculations. Rolling back the kernel .. read more  

Azure Copilot is an AI-powered assistant in the Azure ecosystem that provides insights, recommendations, and automation for managing cloud resources, including Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). It simplifies tasks such as resource optimization, performance monitoring, security enhancements, and autom.. read more  

A student from Purdue University successfully ran Arch Linux on Google Drive using Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) and various creative solutions, though faced issues with permissions and symlinks. Despite this, they optimized boot times and tested their setup on a storage-less laptop, hinting at pot.. read more  

The author has been exploring eBPF performance, focusing on observability and monitoring. They encountered challenges in determining the number of elements in an eBPF map, which is crucial for preventing performance issues. Despite exploring various strategies, such as monitoring pinned maps and int.. read more  

DCPerf is an open-source benchmark collection for cloud deployments, designed to represent diverse workload categories. It is compatible with various instruction set architectures, including x86 and ARM, and supports emerging industry trends like chiplet-based architectures. The benchmarks have been.. read more  

Amazon Web Services closed new customer access to several services, including AWS Cloud9, AWS CodeCommit, Amazon S3 Select, Amazon S3 Glacier Select, Amazon CloudSearch, Amazon Forecast, and AWS Data Pipeline. The closures, effective immediately, aim to transition customers to alternative solutions... read more  

Google alerted GKE users about an unauthenticated "read-only" port 10255 in the Kubelet server that could lead to data leaks. Google plans to phase out this port in GKE version 1.32 and future releases, but current clusters need manual intervention to disable it. Orca's scans reveal that87% of organ.. read more