New Video: BuzzFeed Moves From Monolith to Microservices with NGINX Plus

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New Video: BuzzFeed Moves From Monolith to Microservices with NGINX Plus BuzzFeed is a global media company that produces and distributes original news, entertainment, and video across its sites, mobile apps, and other digital platforms. To serve its global audience, BuzzFeed handles more than 7 billion content views every month. This impressive reach presents an exciting opportunity for BuzzFeed engineers to scale their application. Previously, BuzzFeed had one large monolithic application. Over the past year, BuzzFeed gradually moved to microservices, which made it more difficult to route URLs to the correct backend application. BuzzFeed’s IT team started off routing traffic in the CDN and found that the configuration there became more and more complicated. They needed a smarter way of routing pages to their applications. Watch the video with John Cleveley, Senior Engineering Manager at BuzzFeed, to learn how BuzzFeed [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15046 for PC

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15046 for PC Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15046 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. As you can see, we have done quite a few experiments in the Creator’s Update so far to try out different colors and icons and we have loved co-creating the results you see today with you. What’s new in Build 15046 Color of Cortana’s home on the taskbar: You had a LOT of opinions on this topic and we have been loving the enthusiastic feedback coming in! We finished our experiment with the color of Cortana’s home on the taskbar and for now, it’s back to the color it was before. Thanks for your feedback on this change. Windows Defender Improvements: Windows Defender Security Center has [ more… ]

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USN-3213-1: GD library vulnerabilities

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USN-3213-1: GD library vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3213-1 28th February, 2017 libgd2 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary The GD library could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted image file. Software description libgd2 – GD Graphics Library Details Stefan Esser discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory whenprocessing certain images. If a user or automated system were tricked intoprocessing a specially crafted image, an attacker could cause a denial ofservice, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affectedUbuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-10166) It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain malformedimages. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing aspecially crafted image, an attacker [ more… ]

Homegrown Trailers hits the road with Windows 10

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Homegrown Trailers hits the road with Windows 10 Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I’ve been a lifelong adventurer who enjoys camping in the great outdoors with few amenities and the ability to disconnect from the urban world. When I had the first of my two daughters ten years ago, I knew things would change and they did. As the girls got older, I realized that the amount of things you have to bring to keep the kiddos comfortable can be overwhelming. I soon discovered that I was the only one who could deal with a lack of privacy, pitching tents and sleeping on the ground. I knew there had to be a better way to enjoy the outdoors with my family, and as a sustainability consultant, I was determined to find the greenest path. Four years ago after an [ more… ]

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RHSA-2017:0345-1: Important: kernel security update

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RHSA-2017:0345-1: Important: kernel security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. CVE-2017-6074 Source: RHSA-2017:0345-1: Important: kernel security update