Cloud

The James Webb Space Telescope released its first full-color images this week. Behind the breathtaking photos is a remarkable data pipeline worth examining.

Cloudflare mitigated the largest HTTPS DDoS attack ever recorded at 26 million requests per second. The Mantis botnet represents a new generation of volumetric threats.

Broadcom’s proposed $61B acquisition of VMware could reshape the enterprise cloud and virtualization landscape for years to come.

Kubernetes 1.24 finally removes Dockershim, completing the long-telegraphed divorce from Docker as a container runtime.

Heroku’s OAuth token breach exposes the fragile trust chain in platform-as-a-service dependencies and what it means for developers.

The Lapsus$ hacking group has breached both Okta and Microsoft, exposing critical weaknesses in identity provider security and third-party access management.

NVIDIA’s $40 billion bid for ARM has officially fallen apart under regulatory pressure, and the implications for the semiconductor landscape are enormous.

Terraform 1.1 brings refactoring support and moved/imported blocks, signaling that Infrastructure as Code tooling is growing up.

AWS re:Invent 2021 delivered a clear message: the cloud is moving toward higher-level abstractions, and developers should pay attention.

AWS re:Invent 2021 is underway in Las Vegas, and the announcements already hint at where cloud infrastructure is headed next.

CentOS Stream 9 has arrived as the successor to both CentOS 8 and the traditional CentOS model — and the enterprise Linux community is still adapting.

Facebook’s rebrand to Meta signals a massive infrastructure bet on the metaverse — here’s what it means for developers and platform engineers.