Today, we’re announcing our newest private subsea cable project: Dunant. This cable crosses the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia Beach in the U.S. to the French Atlantic coast, and will expand our network--already the world’s largest--to help us better serve…

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Arch Linux user repository altered to host malware, Arch maintainers say they’re “surprised it doesn’t happen more often”.

Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what’s new in Kubernetes 1.11
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Learn how a new programming language, Ballerina can compile into Docker and Kubernetes artifacts tolet you generate YAML from your microservices app code.

GitOps lowers the bar for creating self-service versions of common IT processes, making it easier to meet the return in the ROI calculation. GitOps not only achieves this, but also encourages desired behaviors in IT systems: better testing, reduction of bus…

After years of scaling microservices, a shift back to a monolithic architecture brought greater efficiency, reliability, and a smoother developer experience. This transition highlights the challenges of managing complexity at scale and why a well-architected…

Looking for a cloud hosted Maven repository when working with Google Cloud? Sign up for a free 14-day trial of Deps Private Maven Repositories. Deps is a private, hosted, Maven repository. While building it I had a critical decision to make - Where to host…

Using dev test methods in the ops environment may catch potential infrastructure issues before they become problems.

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty to a security researcher for helping to report a new set of Spectre speculative execution vulnerability variants.

Microsoft Teams is properly taking on Slack now

We all need some help occasionally. Nobody more than me. That’s because I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. When you find…

By Phillip Coletti, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform With every new feature we introduce to Google Cloud Billing , we strive to prov...

Lightning Network is one of the biggest scaling solutions to ever hit bitcoin network, as it finally makes it usable as an everyday…

On a recent trip to Cuba I brought with me a smartphone and hoped to get Internet access either via WiFi or 3G. I managed that (at a price) but also saw for myself how Cubans get access to an alternate Internet delivered by sneakernet.

A 3-Part Guide to Better Application Monitoring

A 3-Part Guide to Better Application Monitoring

A 3-Part Guide to Better Application Monitoring