Preface: The payment systems based on a distributed architecture will be enhanced efficient and scalable. Therefore, distributed ledger technology (DLT) will become a trend in future. The DLT Pilot Regime defines “tokenization of financial instruments” as a process that involves the conversion of traditional financial asset classes into digital tokens that can be stored, transferred…

Preface: Government agencies and companies in emerging tech, finance, healthcare, and other industries use Red Hat® products and services. OpenShift gives organizations the ability to build, deploy, and scale applications faster both on-premises and in the cloud. It also protects your development infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade security. Background: Skupper is a layer 7 service…

Preface: Many users agree that learning Apex is simpler than learning Java because there is less syntax. Background: Apex is a proprietary language developed by Salesforce.com. It is a strongly typed, object-oriented programming language that allows developers to execute flow and transaction control statements on the Force.com platform server in conjunction with calls to the…

Preface: Quick comparison of Windows (IoRing) and Linux (io_uring): Windows: The kernel fully initializes the new ring, including the creation of both queues and creating a shared view in the application’s user-mode address space, using an MDL (memory descriptor list). Linux: In the Linux io_uring implementation, the system creates the requested ring and the queues…

Preface: Microsoft has been a mainstay of the computer systems world for more than four decades. At the same time, it also promotes the development of the Internet and other technologies. About fifteen years ago, virtual machines led the way, bringing the concept into the business world and successfully fending off mainstream cybersecurity attacks. It…

Preface: You can configure the nginx ingress controller in various ways. To use the Openstack load balancer Octavia with ssl offloading you will need to configure the ingress controller with the proxy protocol. The alternative would be to use the Openstack service barbican to store your ssl certificate. Which is currently not directly supported by…

Preface: VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs (formerly VMware vRealize® Log Insight™) analyzes complex log management through dashboards to provide shortest path to identify the problem. Background: What is aria operations for logs? Centralized Log Management VMware Aria Operations for Logs. Manage data at scale with centralized log management, deep operational visibility, and intelligent analytics for…

Preface: On October 10, 2023, Citrix released a security advisory regarding a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. Background: Citrix NetScaler improves performance by using HTTP compression and data caching. The workload is shared over multiple servers and networks to ensure that there is not one point of failure…

Preface: When Oracle releases a security advisory. These vulnerabilities may have occurred months ago, or may be further back. But the technical details published in the CVE are only limited. So, that’s one of the reasons I’m interested in digging into the details. In the spirit of science, everyone dares to assume but careful to…