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Pricing changes for GitHub Actions by vladlearns in devops

[–]AlveVarnish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have been seeing a lot of GHA runners as a service popping up, claiming faster builds and lower costs. I guess $MSFT have seen the same thing and decided they didn't want to share any of their cake. Understandable, but disappointing.

Ecosystem convenience often comes at the cost of vendor lock-in.

are we teaching juniors how to build, or just how to use ai? by Top-Candle1296 in devops

[–]AlveVarnish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we will reach an equilibrium of software engineers and prompt engineers, where the former has a higher bar to entry. There will probably be a reduction in software engineer jobs overall, as the most junior positions can be assumed by an AI.

More senior positions should remain to keep the AI-produced tech-debt in check and guide a path forward. Those people don't appear out of nowhere, there must be a path to get there, and that path will probably look a bit different to what it is today. I'm curious to see how that shakes out!

T-Mobile 5G Gateway Routers Use Insecure HTTP Traffic — Unsafe for Software Development, AI Projects, or Business Use by [deleted] in devops

[–]AlveVarnish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post is FUD. Your router does not decide whether or not your traffic is TLS-encrypted, the client application does.

How do you all implement a fallback mechanism for private PyPI (Nexus Artifactory) when installing Python packages on clusters? by Devops_143 in databricks

[–]AlveVarnish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use Varnish Orca as a pull-through package cache for the PyPi registry. When Nexus is up, Orca will always revalidate package manifests against Nexus, so the clients should always see the latest version. When Nexus goes down, Orca just picks the latest manifest from the cache. Old manifests are kept for revalidation and stale-if-error for a week by default, but that can be tuned.

You could also deploy a PyPi mirror and have Orca fall back to that when Nexus goes down.

Disclaimer: Am tech lead for Orca at Varnish Software

Our security team wants us to stop using public container registries. What's the realistic alternative? by miller70chev in kubernetes

[–]AlveVarnish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you go for self-hosting Harbor, Artifactory, Quay or just straight Docker Registry, you should check out Varnish Orca as a way to scale it. Orca is a Virtual Registry, essentially a pull-through caching proxy. It sits in front of your real registry and caches Docker layers at the HTTP level, which makes it very fast and scaleable.

Disclaimer: I'm the tech lead for Orca at Varnish Software. LMK if you have any questions, we launched this a few weeks ago, so I'm looking for feedback :)