Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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How to use rsnapshot for incremental backups on Raspberry Pi
Posted on July 22, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
After trying out several backup tools over the years, rsnapshot has proven to be one of the most reliable, and setting it up on a Raspberry Pi is easier than you might think. As you know, maintaining our Raspberry Pi infrastructure is crucial. Data loss can disrupt projects and impact efficiency, so we need a robust backup solution. The article highlights `rsnapshot`, a powerful open-source tool that provides an excellent way to automate incremental backups on our Pis. Let me show you how it all works. By Usman Qamar.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy
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Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time
Posted on July 19, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
The rise in Linux desktop market share is significant, representing an evolving landscape for operating system technologies. This necessitates strategic considerations around platform support, security hardening, and potential integration opportunities. Understanding the drivers of this shift (privacy, open-source ethos, hardware compatibility) informs our long-term technology roadmap and investment decisions regarding containerization, virtualization, and cloud-native architectures. The increasing reliance on Linux-based systems also influences developer toolchains and deployment strategies. By Skye Jacobs.
Tags miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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Building a real-time video AI service with Google Gemini
Posted on July 16, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
The article describes the development of a real-time video AI service for a major global service provider, leveraging Google Gemini's Multimodal Live API and Akka's SDK. The team successfully built, deployed, and scaled the service to handle thousands of transactions per second, far exceeding customer requirements. Key components included video ingestion, augmentation, and conversational storage, all deployed within a private Akka environment provisioned in a Google VPC in just 2 hours. By Johan Andrén.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development ai-and-machine-learning product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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DIY Docker volume drivers: What's missing
Posted on July 6, 2025, Level advanced Resource Length medium
This post explores the limitations of the current Docker volume plugin ecosystem, emphasizing the difficulty in finding unprivileged solutions. The author details their journey in creating a custom volume plugin as a way to address this limitation. By Adam Faris.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd product-and-design software-engineering
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Docker's best-kept secret: How observability saves developers' sanity
Posted on July 6, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Observability is crucial for managing the increasing complexity of modern distributed software systems, especially those built with Docker containers and microservices. Traditional monitoring often falls short, leading to slow troubleshooting and increased Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). End-to-end observability, particularly through distributed tracing, provides deep insights into system behavior, enabling proactive detection of performance issues and improved reliability. By Aditya Gupta.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd how-to
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How to run GUI-based applications in Docker
Posted on July 4, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Docker is commonly used for server-side and command-line apps. However, with the right setup, you can also run GUI-based applications inside containers. These containers can include GUI libraries and display tools, which enable apps to run in a secure and isolated environment. Docker containers can run GUI applications by configuring display sharing with the host system. This approach packages applications with their dependencies while maintaining isolation, enabling consistent cross-platform deployment without cluttering the host system. By Anees Asghar.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd business-and-emerging-tech how-to
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Multimodal AI for IoT devices requires a new class of MCU
Posted on July 2, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
Context-aware computing enables ultra-low-power operation while maintaining high-performance AI capabilities when needed. The rise of AI-driven IoT devices is pushing the limits of today's microcontroller unit (MCU) landscape. While AI-powered perception applications—such as voice, facial recognition, object detection, and gesture control—are becoming essential in everything from smart home devices to industrial automation, the hardware available to support them is not keeping pace. By Todd Dust.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech how-to
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The edge of security: How edge computing is revolutionizing cyber protection
Posted on July 1, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The traditional centralized model of cloud computing presents significant cybersecurity risks, creating a single point of failure and suffering from latency that can delay critical security updates. Edge computing emerges as a superior, decentralized solution that brings processing power closer to where data is generated. By Andrew Garfield.
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech
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Wget to wipeout: Malicious Go modules fetch destructive payload
Posted on June 30, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Sockets threat research team uncovered a destructive supply-chain attack targeting Go developers. In April 2025, three malicious Go modules were identified, using obfuscated code to fetch and execute remote payloads that wipe disks clean. The Go ecosystem's decentralized nature, lacking central gatekeeping, makes it vulnerable to namespace confusion and typosquatting, allowing attackers to disguise malicious modules as legitimate ones. By @socket.dev.
Tags software-engineering backend-development product-and-design security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure
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Why Go rocks for building a Lua interpreter
Posted on June 28, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length short
The interpreter's structure in Go is divided into packages for scanning, parsing, and execution, leveraging Go's interfaces for Lua value representation. This design choice, along with Go's garbage collector and testing tools, simplified development compared to the PUC-Rio Lua implementation. Challenges included error handling and compatibility issues with Lua's standard libraries. Nice one!
Tags software-engineering backend-development product-and-design frontend-and-mobile cloud-and-infrastructure
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A 10x faster TypeScript
Posted on June 26, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Most developer time is spent in editors, and it's where performance is most important. We want editors to load large projects quickly, and respond quickly in all situations. Modern editors like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code have excellent performance as long as the underlying language services are also fast. With our native implementation, we'll be able to provide incredibly fast editor experiences. By Anders Hejlsberg.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering
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Anonymize RAG data in IBM Granite and Ollama using HCP Vault
Posted on June 24, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length long
This article explores using HCP Vault to anonymize sensitive data in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) workflows with IBM Granite and Ollama. It addresses the risk of large language models (LLMs) leaking personal identifiable information (PII) by employing Vault's transform secrets engine for data masking and tokenization. By Rosemary Wang.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous leadership-and-career data-and-analytics