Tomasz Cholewa

OpenStack 15th Anniversary!🎉 Today, our experts Paweł Mączka (Storware), Wojciech Furmankiewicz (Red Hat), Todd Robinson (OpenMetal) and Tytus Kurek, PhD (Canonical) answer the question: "Was there a moment when you realized that #OpenStack could be the game changer for virtualization"? This is the 3rd episode, more 5 will come following weeks! Curious to hear what they said? Watch the video.👇 Jimmy McArthur, Helena Spease

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Hear from Lukasz Galezewski, a Senior Software Engineer at Allegro, on how he uses DataGrip to work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle databases at Poland’s biggest marketplace. Discover DataGrip, your powerful cross-platform IDE for relational and NoSQL databases: https://jb.gg/postgreLGli

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🏗️ Red Hat OpenShift Architecture — Why It’s More Than Just "Kubernetes+" 🚀 Most folks think OpenShift is just Kubernetes with some Red Hat polish. But when you really explore the architecture, you realize it’s a full-blown enterprise-grade application platform — engineered for scale, security, and developer productivity. 💼⚙️ Here’s what stood out for me when working with OpenShift in a real-world enterprise project: 🔹 Control Plane – The Brains The Kubernetes API server, etcd, controller manager, and scheduler are all here — but OpenShift extends this with a Web Console, OAuth-integrated authentication, and centralized RBAC management. Our platform team found user governance way more manageable. 🔹 Worker Nodes – The Muscle These host your workloads, but OpenShift also tightly integrates CRI-O (for container runtime) and SDN plugins like OpenShift SDN or OVN-K to control pod networking — a game-changer when you're deploying apps across hybrid cloud environments. 🔹 Integrated CI/CD OpenShift Pipelines (based on Tekton) run natively inside the cluster. No more third-party tools duct-taped together — we built GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, and developers could deploy from Git in minutes. 🔹 Image Build & Registry The built-in Source-to-Image (S2I) builder and internal container registry helped standardize how apps were built and deployed — especially useful for teams with limited Dockerfile experience. 🔹 Operators & Lifecycle Management This is where OpenShift shines. We automated upgrades and monitoring of complex apps (like Kafka, Elasticsearch) using Operators — turning infra into something that self-heals and self-manages. 💡 Architecture isn't just about components — it's about how they align with your business workflows. With OpenShift, we were able to implement DevSecOps principles out of the box while meeting compliance and audit requirements. Whether you're running on AWS, Azure, GCP, or on-prem — OpenShift's architecture gives you a consistent platform experience. #OpenShift #RedHat #Kubernetes #CloudNative #Architecture #DevSecOps #PlatformEngineering #Containers #SRE #HybridCloud

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Ole, CTO @ Testkube, explains why configuration management has become the top area of engagement for Kubernetes practitioners and breaks down the technical challenges teams face. Ole provides historical context, noting that while configuration management isn't new to software development, Kubernetes has evolved these challenges with multiple clusters running different versions and the complexity of managing configuration lifecycles alongside running applications. Watch the full interview: https://ku.bz/JGS81jQBr

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Today we mark a meaningful milestone: .NET 10 ships with C# 14, delivering performance, safety, and productivity for modern workloads. The upgrade accelerates startup, reduces memory footprint, and tightens ahead-of-time compilation, enabling lean containers and faster deployments. Key features include enhanced pattern matching and type inference that reduce boilerplate; improved static abstract members in interfaces for richer polymorphism; progressive init-only and records improvements with smarter deconstruction; faster generics and inlining; and a refined nullable analysis that catches more nullability pitfalls earlier. Enhanced source generators guide build pipelines with clearer diagnostics; improved AOT paths for cross-platform workloads; and streamlined single-file apps that preserve diagnostics while shrinking footprint. For teams, this translates into shorter release cycles, safer code, and simpler maintenance of distributed systems. Adoption requires library compatibility checks, toolchain updates, and CI/CD tuning to realize sustained gains. I recommend staged rollout, feature flags, and early pilots around data-intensive services and microservices to quantify real-world impact. The takeaway: invest in language and runtime upgrades as strategic accelerants, not mere upgrades. It strengthens diagnostics and compatibility, guiding modernization. #dotnet10 #Csharp14 #dotnet #CSharp #softwaredevelopment #programming #devops

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