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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech

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​K0s the zero friction Kubernetes distribution​

Anything to make Kubernetes easier sounds promising. With the catchy tag line it sounds like running through pastures of green grass singing it's a beautiful life. But...I ask myself. What is the real difference between K0s and K3s besides the "3"? They are both super lightweight, single binary, and with everything you need baked in. I still need to test them side by side to really compare but the race to the smallest and fastest Kubernetest distribution seems in trend at the moment.

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​Datadog Container Report: Most Popular Kubernetes version is 17 months old​

I look forward to this report every year as it provides an interesting glimpse into the container ecosystem and adoption. The 2020 Datadog report didn't disappoint. For example, we are under utilizing Kubernetes resources, and not suprising is Service Mesh is still at the early adoption marker. Give it a read!

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​GitHub Project of the Week: Git User Switch​

I stumbled across this gem of a project this week. Do you have multiple profiles in GitHub for different projects you are working on? With the Git User Switch tool now it is super simple to Switch Git user, email, and signing key all in one swoop. Cool stuff!

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​Why AWS Announces Regions in Advance​

Corey Quinn the Cloud Economist best known for adding snark to anything Cloud related wrote the following blog post. It is really an inside look at how AWS regions are developed and all the planning required to create new regions.

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​Alibaba processed 583,000 oders a second on Singles Day​

Singles Days is not a day for all the single people but rather a celebration of November 11 or better known as 11.11 or singles Day or Double 11. It is one of the largest online shopping days of the year for Alibaba and onpar with Black Friday madness. However, what is incredible is Alibaba is typically doesn't share much information around whats going on so to see these numbers is fasincating. Alibaba processed 583,000 online orders per secon on Singles Day. What is more impressive is they decreaed the cost per 10'000 transactions by 80% from four years ago. Impressive.

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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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