AI might have come a long way since the days of LISP and Prolog, but it's still primitive – and that's OK.

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We investigate best practices to secure CI/CD pipelines with DevSecOps.

LAN data transmission has evolved from the original IEEE 802.3 standard to virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) technology and finally to today's Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (GENEVE) tunneling protocol, which offers improved flexibility and scalability, although it still faces some issues. We look at the three technologies and their areas of application.

The Azure Arc cloud service supports centralized management of Windows and Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters, and SQL servers that are not themselves running in Azure, extending Azure management capabilities to servers in traditional data centers or any other cloud environment. We show you how to get Azure Arc up and running and look at its key features.

Ceph and its core component RADOS have recently undergone a number of technical and organizational changes. We take a closer look at the benefits that the move to containers, the new setup, and other feature improvements offer.

The built-in single-node Kubernetes cluster included with Docker Desktop is a handy tool for testing your container.

As systems grow more complex and distributed, managing and making sense of logs used for monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting can become a daunting task. Fluentd and its lighter counterpart Fluent Bit can help you unify data collection and consumption to make sense of logging data.

We show you how to implement the zero-packet Ping utility, Zing, as a Bash shell script.

The powerful Cloudflare Tunnel provides secure and seamless access to servers and applications, making it a convenient alternative to VPN for any modern IT infrastructure.