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Engineering • 9min read

The PHP2Shell flaw your Trivy scans cannot see

Trivy reports no PHP2Shell findings in vulnerable official PHP images. We tested it, and explain why....

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Engineering • 9min read

EKS extended support: the price of not owning upgrades

EKS extended support costs six times the standard fee once a version leaves standard support. Owning upgrades avoids it, and a platform team has to own that work....

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Engineering • 7min read

Broadcom pulled VDDK: migrating to KubeVirt without it

Broadcom has withdrawn the public VDDK download. Here is what still works for moving VMs to KubeVirt....

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Engineering • 17min read

Kubernetes is complex on purpose

Most of what gets called Kubernetes bloat is the work of running distributed systems. Here is how to tell when a cluster will pay off, and when it never will....

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Engineering • 14min read

Should You Buy, Build, or Assemble an Internal Developer Platform?

The three routes to an internal developer platform, buy, build or assemble, the costs that never reach an invoice, and how to choose between them....

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Engineering • 14min read

Kubernetes Does NOT Make You Cloud Native: Replacement Does

Two conditions decide it, and neither one mentions a cluster: a workload converges by replacing failed instances rather than repairing them, and that the outcome the migration was justified by actually arrives....

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Engineering • 12min read

Leaving VMware: Should You Lift Your VMs into Kubernetes, or Modernise into Containers?

Leaving VMware? A decision guide to choosing between lifting VMs into Kubernetes with KubeVirt and modernising workloads into containers, per workload....

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Engineering • 16min read

KubeVirt vs vSphere: The Operational Gap Teams Miss Before Migration

What vCenter provides that KubeVirt does not ship with by default, and the operational gaps to close before migrating off VMware....

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