Weekly Digest – Week 18, 2021

Articles and News

Digital Sovereignty — Status Quo and Perspectives

Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften published a document concerning Digital Sovereignty in the European Union, including recommended actions.

https://www.acatech.de/publikation/digitale-souveraenitaet-status-quo-und-handlungsfelder/download-pdf?lang=en

#digital-sovereignty #europe

European Industrial Technology Roadmap for the Next Generation Cloud-Edge Offering

In this roadmap, 27 European technology enterprises share their ideas and recommendations on bridging the gap to Asian and US hyperscalers.

https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/repository/document/2021-18/European_CloudEdge_Technology_Investment_Roadmap_for_publication_pMdz85DSw6nqPppq8hE9S9RbB8_76223.pdf

#cloud #europe

Open-Source Software Company SUSE to Float in Frankfurt

»SUSE will issue $500 million in new shares via the offering to pay down debt while Swedish investment fund EQT, which acquired SUSE in 2018 for $2.5 billion, will sell an unspecified further number of existing shares.«

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-suse-ipo-idUSKBN2CD0ND

#suse #stock #ipo

Software Disenchantment

The author points out some valid issues on how we are producing and consuming software today.

https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

#software-quality

New Relic Open Sources Pixie, Its Kubernetes-Native In-Cluster Observability Platform

New Relic open-sourced its eBPF-based observability platform for Kubernetes.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-relic-open-sources-pixie-its-kubernetes-native-in-cluster-observability-platform/

#new-relic #systems-performance #observability #kubernetes #open-telemetry

Videos: GitOps Con 2021

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXOML2VBdIo7xEp8Bo9kFB-d6tTlHK5Fk

#gitops #cncf

How to Improve the Root – Run It Locally

The author explained running the root zone locally and announced a second post with operational instructions.

https://brainattic.in/blog/2020/06/13/how-to-improve-the-root-run-it-locally/

#dns #dns-root-server

IBM Creates First 2nm Chip

The announced 2nm development will deliver the same performance with 75% of the energy, compared to modern 7mn processors.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16656/ibm-creates-first-2nm-chip

#hardware #semiconductor-manufacturing

The Once and Future Shell

This paper takes a close look at the characteristics of a UNIX shell and discusses how a new, improved version could look like.

https://angelhof.github.io/files/papers/shell-2021-hotos.pdf

#unix-shell

Using QEMU-User Emulation to Reverse Engineer Binaries

Interesting use case of qemu-user.

https://ariadne.space/2021/05/05/using-qemu-user-emulation-to-reverse-engineer-binaries/

#qemu #reverse-engineering

Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 — The Service That Started It All

In this post, Werner Vogels recaps the origin story of S3.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2021/03/happy-15th-birthday-amazon-s3.html

#amazon #amazon-s3 #aws

Email Explained From First Principles

In this comprehensive article, all the technical aspects of email are covered.

https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/

#email

Projects and Releases

AgStack

»The AgStack Foundation seeks to improve global agriculture efficiency through the creation, maintenance and enhancement of free, re-usable, open and specialized digital infrastructure for data and applications.«

https://agstack.org/

#agriculture #sustainability #linux-foundation