# Technology Short Take 190

DevFeed: [Technology Short Take 190](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/technology-short-take-190-10921.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.scottlowe.org/2026/02/06/technology-short-take-190/>)

Author: Scott Lowe

Published: 2026-02-06T13:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Scott's Weblog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scott-s-weblog.md>)

Topics: [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [DDoS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ddos.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/encryption.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [macOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/macos.md>)

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## AI overview

Technology Short Take 190 is a curated roundup of technical reading on networking, solar-storm effects on satellites, hardware, DDoS attacks against Microsoft Azure, Windows encryption, cloud management, Git tools, Terraform and OpenTofu, hosted email, Linux, macOS, and Markdown.

## Source excerpt

Welcome to Technology Short Take #190! This is the first Tech Short Take of 2026, and it has been nearly three months (wow!) since the last one. I can't argue that I fell off the blogging bandwagon over the end of 2025 and early 2026. I won't get into all the reasons why (if you're interested then feel free to reach out and I'll fill you in). Enough about me--let's get to the technical content! Here's hoping you find something useful. Networking Here's a little something on the lighter side about what causes network outages. As the lead-in to this article on Starlink's performance during a solar superstorm says, "It's not science fiction." Solar storms can have a real impact on Earth, and satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) are not exempt from that impact. Servers/Hardware William Lam reviews the Mini PC and SFF (small form factor) hardware announcements from CES 2026. Security The scale of DDoS attacks continues to grow, as evidenced by this report of a 15 Tbps attack on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft having the ability to give away your Windows PC's data encryption key is horrifying. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management While doing some reading on Terragrunt, I also came across this open source tool for performing operations against multiple Git repositories. I don't have a use case for it, but it is cool! While on the topic of Terragrunt: let me say that I appreciate the work that went into their online docs! From what I've read so far, they are well-written, clear, concise, and informative. Well done! And while still on the topic of Terragrunt: it was this article from Axel Mendoza on why they use Terragrunt over Terraform/OpenTofu that sent me down the Terragrunt rabbit hole. The most recent installation of Ricardo Sueiras' AWS open source newsletter pointed me to a couple of tools that look really handy: s3sh (available from GitHub) and taws (also available from GitHub). Nick Buraglio has a great comparison of hosted email options. Operating Systems/Applications Howard