Weekly Digest – Week 43, 2020
Articles and News
Aim for Operability, Not SRE as a Cult
The author gives a critical view of the SRE cargo-culting currently going on.
https://www.stevesmith.tech/blog/aim-for-operability-not-sre-as-a-cult/
So You Want To Build an Embedded Linux System?
»A primer on how embedded Linux systems are developed, plus an exploration of the hardware and software ecosystems of ten different commonly-available CPUs. «
https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/
Video: Linux Memory Management at Scale (Arch Conf 2020)
In his Arch Conf 2020 talk, Chris Down shows how many of the Linux memory management concepts are widely-misunderstood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSJFLBJusVY
Projects and Releases
OpenBSD 6.8
6.8 is OpenBSD’s 25th-anniversary release. It brings a lot of improvements in the kernel as well as new userland features.
NetBSD 9.1
NetBSD, the Unix-like OS that OpenBSD got forked from in 1995, also got updated last week: Among other changes, it comes with many bug fixes, a few performance enhancements, and stability improvements for ZFS and LFS.
https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.1.html
Git 2.29
New in this Git release: experimental SHA-256 support, negative refspecs, and many other improvements.
https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy2k2t77l.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/
Pure sh Bible
This book will show you how to do various tasks using only built-in POSIX sh features.
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible
k8s-bhyve
Kubernetes on bhyve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4QlKJVT9tc
https://k8s-bhyve.convectix.com
which.nameserve.rs
This site tells you the domain name server you are using to resolve it by letting you query a unique subdomain, recording the IP Address the query to the DNS server came from, and returning this record.
:wq