Rebootless updates
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Describes techniques and tools for keeping environments from development to production secure and highly available by applying rebootless (dynamic) updates to components ranging from kernels to application libraries. Uses two recent global incidents—one as a lesson in mistakes and the other as an example of best practices—to show how live updates prevent downtime and reduce security risks, and discusses practical approaches and tooling for implementing them.
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