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Building Internal Developer Platforms as Products: A Practical Guide for IDP Architects

Why Most Platforms Fail to Become Products Many companies are heavily investing in internal developer platforms (IDPs) with the expectation that they will speed up delivery and governance, and increase developer productivity. Despite significant investment in Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security tooling, and cloud infrastructure, many platforms struggle to gain adoption. The reason is simple: they are built and operated like infrastructure projects, not products.

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The Hacker News

Growing Up The Hard Way

Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral. Then,

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CNCF Blog

Does Kubernetes DRA Replace HAMi?

Projects that want to share a GPU on Kubernetes have to work around an API instead of with it. The device plugin interface could count devices, and that was the whole vocabulary: nvidia.com/gpu: 1. It meant one...

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18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers

A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone running an older kernel with SCTP reachable should update.

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