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Dec 3, 2024 | 
firefly.ai | Ido Neeman
If youâre a DevOps engineer, you know that the only constant you can count on is change. From Chef and Puppet, to Ansible, and then CloudFormation and Terraform, your configuration management tools have evolved rapidly over the past decade, and that shows no signs of stopping. Now, with Terraform's more restrictive license changes and new players entering the field, itâs time to reassess your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies. You may be asking:Is Terraform dead?
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
firefly.ai | Ido Neeman
While CSPMs (Cloud Security Posture Management) are everywhere, ironically enough they are not the right solution for a secure cloud. One of the key lessons I have learned from leading the platform group at a prominent CNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform) company, is that getting your cloud infrastructure under control starts with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ido Neeman
If you’re a DevOps engineer, you know that the only constant you can count on is change. From Chef and Puppet to Ansible, and then CloudFormation and Terraform, your configuration management tools have evolved rapidly over the past decade and they show no signs of stopping. Now, with Terraform’s more restrictive license changes and new players entering the field, it’s time to reassess your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies. You may be asking:Is Terraform dead?
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
firefly.ai | Ido Neeman
The IaC landscape drama continues. If we thought everything would calm down following the Terraform license change, consequent forking of the project and establishing OpenTofu, and then the IBM acquisition of Hashicorp… well, think again. While some pundits will claim —Terraform is DEAD— long live [ENTER FAVORITE IAC TOOL HERE], I think what is actually happening is quite a bit different and much more compelling.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ido Neeman
As cloud practitioners, we can’t afford to bet on the wrong technology to manage our mission-critical infrastructure — especially when it’s so important for operations, so costly and so heavily invested in. That’s a big part of why Terraform’s restrictive license change, and subsequent acquisition by IBM, has much of the DevOps community in a frenzy.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ido Neeman
While cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools are everywhere, they are not the right solution for a secure cloud. Getting your cloud infrastructure under control starts with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Security best practices and cloud configuration management aren’t just about scanning for vulnerabilities or misconfigurations; they are about establishing a sustainable, scalable and secure cloud environment from the ground up.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ido Neeman
The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) landscape drama continues. If we thought everything would calm down following the HashiCorp license change, consequent forking of the project and establishing OpenTofu, and then the IBM acquisition of HashiCorp… well, think again. While some pundits will claim: “Terraform is DEAD — long live [ENTER FAVORITE IaC TOOL HERE],” I think what is actually happening is quite a bit different and much more compelling.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ido Neeman
In recent years, but specifically since November 2022 when ChatGPT launched, AI has been driving innovation at an unprecedented rate, transforming various industries and the way businesses operate. Every single company today, and their executive leadership, understands that AI needs to be a part of their future strategy, or they will be left behind. That is why we are witnessing a race to deliver the greatest possible innovations on top of AI-powered everything.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Janakiram MSV |Ido Neeman |Bruce Gain |Prasanna Krishnan
Build a RAG App With Nvidia NIM APIs and a Vector Databasesponsor-aerospike,sponsored-topic, The Nvidia NIM platform allows developers to perform inference on generative AI models. In this article, we will explore how to consume the NIM APIs to build a simple RAG application. For the vector database, we will use Zilliz, the hosted, commercial version of the popular Milvus vector database.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
firefly.ai | Ido Neeman
Unless you were in a cave (or a deep slumber) on the morning of July 19, 2024 you either heard about or were impacted directly by the CrowdStrike outage––the largest single vendor outage in recent memorable history that will end up costing Fortune 500 companies alone more than $5 billion in direct losses. The outage lasted several hours and impacted some of the most critical systems around the globe - airports, hospitals, banks, retail firms and many other mission critical systems.
