‘Return’ of the dire wolf is an impressive feat of genetic engineering, not a reversal of extinction: Colossal Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last seen roaming North America over 10,000 years ago. With their names Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, …
How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks: Armadillo Photograp Cloud computing has emerged as a crucial element in today’s technology, serving as the backbone for global connectivity. It empowers businesses, governments, and individuals to employ and construct cloud-based services and forms the foundation for a huge range of …
Studying engineering is tough: 6 insights to help university students succeed: Support and a sense of community are among the ways that students build academic resilience. ASphotowed/iStock/Getty Plus Engineering courses are a popular choice among South African university students. But these courses are also gruelling and the attrition rates are high. The Council on Higher …
What is distributed consensus for site reliability engineering?: What is distributed consensus for site reliability engineering? Robert Kimani Mon, 06/27/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this In my previous article, I discussed how to enforce best practices within your infrastructure. A site reliability engineer (SRE) is responsible for reliability, first and …
How to use a circuit breaker pattern for site reliability engineering: How to use a circuit breaker pattern for site reliability engineering Robert Kimani Thu, 06/23/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Distributed systems have unique requirements for the site reliability engineer (SRE). One of the best ways to …
What you need to know about site reliability engineering: What you need to know about site reliability engineering Robert Kimani Mon, 06/20/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like What is site reliability engineering? The creator of the first site reliability engineering (SRE) program, Benjamin Treynor Sloss at Google, described …
Early warnings for floods in South Africa: engineering for future climate change: If the forecast system works, African cities need significant on the ground support. Shutterstock Severe weather, rain and flooding are at the forefront of the minds of many South Africans, especially those in KwaZulu-Natal. Early last week (11-12 April 2022), the province’s coast …
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5 lessons I learned about chaos engineering for Kubernetes: Kubernetes is a complex framework for a complex job. Managing several containers can be complicated, and managing hundreds and thousands of them is essentially just not humanly possible. Kubernetes makes highly available and highly scaled cloud applications a reality, and it usually does its job remarkably …
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South Africa in the news: NWU among the best in engineering studies: The North-West University is one of the top institutions in South Africa in engineering studies. This is according to the latest rankings by subject by Times Higher …: “South Africa” – BingNews Blood & Water’s Zim actor Leroy Siyafa opens up on acting …
South Africa in the news: NWU among the best in engineering studies: The North-West University is one of the top institutions in South Africa in engineering studies. This is according to the latest rankings by subject by Times Higher …: “South Africa” – BingNews Blood & Water’s Zim actor Leroy Siyafa opens up on acting …
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Offshore wind turbines could number 30,000 by 2030 – new ideas in ocean engineering are needed to install them: Nuttawut Uttamaharad/Shutterstock The UK is planning to install 40 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030 – enough to provide electricity to every home in the country. This would require 5,000 wind turbines – double the …
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Get started with Kubernetes using chaos engineering: Kubernetes is turning 11, so I’ll be celebrating its birthday by giving you some open source tools that will help you cause chaos. Chaos engineering is part science, part planning, and part experiments. It’s the discipline of experimenting on a system to build confidence in the system’s capability …