A Byte of Coding Issue 388

Howdy,

Here’s an extra issue since I missed Monday. Hope you have a nice weekend!

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Sysadmin friendly high speed ethernet switching

Published: 18 April 2024

Tags: linux, hardware, networking

Ben Cartwright-Cox dives into setting up a Mellanox SN2010 network switch with open source software.

Some highlights:

• using debian on the switch

• includes custom compiled kernel

• switch acts as both a switch and router

Building a FIPS Compliant Kubernetes Cluster on AWS

Published: 18 April 2024

Tags: aws, kubernetes, distributed systems

Kevin Sookocheff demonstrates how to build a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) compliant distributed system.

Some highlights:

• “One of the larger hurdles to climb when becoming FedRamp moderate is encrypting all data in transit using FIPS validated encryption modules”

• all traffic between nodes has to be encrypted

• aws has built-in functions for US and Canada to facilitate this process

The Developer’s Guide to SSO

Published: 27 October 2023

Tags: sponsored, auth, web

WorkOS has published a guide on how to best integrate single sign-on (SSO) in your app.

Some highlights:

• SSO is a common requirement when organizations first start selling to enterprises

• ​describes the general request flow for a user logging in with SSO

• summarizes how to build SSO from scratch and how to use existing providers

Memory management in mpmetrics

Published: 17 April 2024

Tags: python

The author wrote an article as “an extended, semi-literate overview of the memory management in mpmetrics”, a metrics library for python.

Some highlights:

• focuses on “dynamic allocation of variables backed by shared memory”

• first challenge is tackling handling memory allocation for a known element type and an unknown length

• looks at making a class for an unknown object type with a fixed length