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AWS put a file system on S3; I stress-tested it
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (320+ words) The Register Home Page I've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday " which lets you…...
Fighting Eventual Consistency-Based Persistence - An Analysis of notyet
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1699+ words) Home " Cybersecurity " Cloud Security " Fighting Eventual Consistency-Based Persistence " An Analysis of notyet As part of a collaboration with the notyet's creator Eduard Agavriloae, I was granted access to early builds of notyet with the aim of hardening it through independent…...
Pedal to Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Nutanix Forges NKP Metal
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (625+ words) Cloud is for everyone, but not necessarily always for every thing, remember? While that adage is still largely true, we tend to now talk about on-premises deployments and even air-gapped instances as private cloud in the same vein as public…...
Amazon S3 Files: Bringing File System Access Directly to Your S3 Data
23+ hour, 52+ min ago (1078+ words) Amazon S3 has been the default storage layer for a huge range of workloads for years. Data lakes, analytics pipelines, backups, media archives, ML datasets " it all ends up in S3 sooner or later. The problem is that a lot of software…...
The Ultimate Guide to Securing Ansible Supply Chain
20+ hour, 6+ min ago (1176+ words) Automation is the backbone of modern IT operations, and Ansible is one of the most popular tools for orchestrating infrastructure at scale. But with great power comes great responsibility: a single misconfigured playbook can impact thousands of systems in seconds....
How to build a streaming analytics pipeline with Terraform and Instaclustr'Part 2: Designing the complete data pipeline
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (912+ words) April 08, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro In part 1, we deployed a managed Apache Kafka cluster with Terraform. That gave us a reliable message broker, but a broker sitting alone isn't a pipeline'it's just infrastructure waiting for a purpose. Today, we add the…...
How to build a streaming analytics pipeline with Terraform and Instaclustr'Part 3: Integrating with AWS VPC
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1585+ words) April 08, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro In parts 1 and 2, we built a complete streaming pipeline: Kafka for ingestion, Kafka Connect for data movement, and Click House for analytics. Everything worked, but it ran over the public internet. That is fine for a…...
How to build a streaming analytics pipeline with Terraform and Instaclustr'Part 1: Setting up your first Kafka" cluster
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (789+ words) April 08, 2026 | By Walt Ribeiro Every year, teams spend countless hours clicking through cloud consoles, manually provisioning infrastructure, and hoping they remember the exact configuration when it's time to rebuild. Then something breaks at 2 a. m. and nobody remembers which checkbox was checked…...
Fleet Management with Ansible " The Auto Bot Approach
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (550+ words) You've completed Parts 1 and 2. You're running Auto Bot, your knowledge base is populated, and you're comfortable with the basics. Now comes the hard part: scaling your infrastructure to dozens of servers across multiple data centers. Managing 10 servers is manageable with…...
Infrastructure as Code Best Practices: Terraform, Pulumi, and Open Tofu in 2026
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (1002+ words) The Infrastructure as Code landscape changed permanently in August 2023 when Hashi Corp moved Terraform from the Mozilla Public License to the Business Source License 1. 1. The change restricted commercial use for products that compete with Hashi Corp's own offerings. Within weeks,…...