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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech

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​New Macbook Air outperforms High-end Macbook Pro​

Exactly the performance benchmarks we have been waiting for. Removing the marketing fluff. The new Apple silicon M1 Chip seems to be an absolute rocket ship. We know the ARM processor architecture packs more punch and is more effecient but these charts are amazing and makes me consider down scaling to a Macbook Air.

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​Deutsche Bank suggests a 5% tax for working from Home​

Somehow this story really got under my skin. We finally are making huge strides forward regarding Working From Home and the first thing people think about is taxing people Working From Home. I totally understand supporting others and extending help where needed but don't think this is the way to go about it.

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​Tweet of the Week: The Open Source developer Revolution Begins​

Just this week I wrote an article about how hard Open Source is. A couple hours later an issue in the Marak/faker.js repo started being shared on Twitter. The maintainer highlighted exactly what many of us are feeling. Fortune 500 or other succesful companies shout the loudest for free work but typically don't contribute back to the same projects. We need to change the Open Source ecosystem to make it more sustainable for maintainers.

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​Alibaba built Hard Drive Swapping Robots​

Ok, how cool is this? Robots that cruise around the data center pulling hard drives, inspecting the drives, and replacing drives if necessary. Makes perfect sense to automate this consider data centers will continue growing and becoming more autonomous. Here's the video if you want to see the robot in action.

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​How to Scan Docker images locally for Vulnerabilites​

The new partnership between Docker and Snyk has great benefits for Docker Desktop users included in the latest release. Now, we can scan Docker images locally finding and fixing security vulnerabilities before pushing our code. Pushing security left is so important as the sooner we can catch bugs/security issues the better it is for the organization. If we catch bugs in Dev is costs about $80 if the bug makes it to prod the cost of the bug increases to $7600 to fix the same bug.

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…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!

I’m Brian Christner, Docker Captain, Traefik Ambassador, and DevOps engineer. If you’ve enjoyed reading this, tell your friends to sign up for theByte newsletter or post a link in your company Slack.

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-Brian

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