Host
theregister.co.uk
8 links, first saved January 30, 2017, latest November 27, 2019.
- Data General's Tom West dies • The Register
I loved reading The Soul of a New Machine and the history of Data General and Tom West . It is too bad that he never experienced that same level of success again.
- GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers • The Register
This is the followup to another article highlighting the change being made to policies at Gitlab. Just one day later another article and a reversal of the policy change…
- Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS's hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech • The Register
These concepts that Amazon has built into the AWS engineering organization are really interesting, and you can see how they are directly designed to fight against bad patterns.…
- Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms • The Register
Good.
- IBM Java CTO: Devs shouldn't have to learn Docker, K8s, 30 other things to deploy an app • The Register
I couldn't read this article without coming to the conclusion that IBM isn't aware that go exists.
- 'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign • The Register
This reads like a detective novel and dives into some interesting things about how modern CPU's work and what they do in silicon to protect different memory spaces. This looks…
- Hash of the Titan: How Google bakes security all the way into silicon • The Register
You may remember that the Snowden docs showed that the NSA modifies silicon in some machines as it leaves the country. Looks like Google is actually defending against an attack at…
- Oracle effectively doubles licence fees to run its stuff in AWS • The Register
Oracle has changed the way it charges users to run its software in Amazon Web Services, effectively doubling the cost along the way.