Joab Jackson has been covering the IT and computing space since the birth of the Internet. He has first-handedly reported on the dotcom boom-and-bust, XML, Web services, cloud computing, REST and JSON, big data, containerization and cloud native computing. Now, he is interested in what AI can, and can not, actually do. He has written for IDG News Service (Computerworld, PC World, Infoworld) and has held editing roles for Government Computer News, The New Stack, and The National Technology Center.
Cost Control for Kubernetes: Monitor, Right-Size, Govern
As Kubernetes moves from testbeds to production, managers are getting sticker shock from the bills a K8s deployment can incur. Whether hosted in-house or on a cloud provider, who knew cloud nativity ...
Kubernetes Could Use a Different Linux Scheduler
A pair of Cambridge researchers have found a way to squeeze 10 – 20% more capacity from Kubernetes clusters, simply by making a tweak in the way the Linux kernel schedules jobs ...
Kubernetes and IPv6: Together at Last?
As administrators migrate their clusters from Ingress NGINX, which is being retired from the Kubernetes line-up next month, they might want to consider adding another task to their job: migrating their network ...
Kubernetes Begins Work on Pod Checkpoint/Restore
Kubernetes may be getting a feature that has long been enjoyed by supercomputer users: checkpoint/restore. Just as the name indicates, checkpoint/restore is the ability to bookmark a distributed workload such that if ...
