Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 3, 2019
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Some unreliable predictions for 2019: some guesses about what is to come, because it's traditional.
- Migrating the Internet Archive to Kubernetes: how Kubernetes is making inroads at the massive Internet Archive site.
- The Firecracker virtual machine monitor: Amazon's newly released virtual machine monitor.
- Some 4.20 development statistics: where the code in 4.20 came from.
- What's coming in the next kernel release (part 1): a look at the first 8,700 changesets to be merged for the next release.
- Live patching for CPU vulnerabilities: hardware vulnerabilities may not seem amenable to fixing via live patch, but some SUSE developers showed that it can be done.
- Improving idle behavior in tickless systems: a new cpuidle governor that should produce better results for many workloads.
- Bose and Kubernetes: how to design a system to scale to five-million connected devices.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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