Articles and News

Thinking Through What Can Go Badly With Databases on ZFS

In this blog post, Chris Siebenmann explains the consequences of not tuning ZFS to match your database’s requirements.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSDatabasesWhatHappens

#zfs #database-performance

How SUSE Builds Its Enterprise Linux Distribution

This series of posts provides insight into the SUSE product development and the upcoming merge of the SLE and openSUSE Leap.

https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-1/

https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-2/

https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-3/

https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-4/

https://www.suse.com/c/how-suse-builds-its-enterprise-linux-distribution-part-5/

#suse #linux

Error Budgets and the Legacy of Herbert Heinrich

The author points out shortcomings of error-budget-based approaches in SRE.

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/01/10/error-budgets-and-the-legacy-of-herbert-heinrich/

#sre #error-budget

PostgreSQL on ARM-based AWS EC2 Instances: Is It Any Good?

Percona compared the price-performance of PostgreSQL on x86 and ARM AWS EC2 instances.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/01/22/postgresql-on-arm-based-aws-ec2-instances-is-it-any-good/

#percona #database-performance #postgresql #aws

New Year, New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Programs: Easier Ways To Access RHEL

»The Individual Developer subscription for RHEL can be used in production for up to 16 systems.«

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel

#rhel #centos

OpenSSH Keys and The Drunken Bishop

»Have you ever wondered what the random art or visual fingerprint is all about when creating OpenSSH keys or connecting to OpenSSH servers?« This post gives you the answer.

https://pthree.org/2013/05/30/openssh-keys-and-the-drunken-bishop/

#openssh #algorithm #drunken-bishop

How We Ported Linux to the M1

This article describes how Corellium, already familiar with Apple’s mobile SoCs, boots Linux on Apple silicon.

https://corellium.com/blog/linux-m1

#m1 #apple-silicon #linux

DNSpooq

»Seven new vulnerabilities are being disclosed in common DNS software dnsmasq, reminiscent of 2008 weaknesses in Internet DNS Architecture.«

https://www.jsof-tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DNSpooq_Technical-Whitepaper.pdf

#dns #network #security

Fulfilling the Promise of CI/CD

Everybody is talking about CI/CD, although nearly nobody is practicing the CD part of CI/CD.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/01/19/fulfilling-the-promise-of-ci-cd/

#continuous-integration #ci-cd #continuous-delivery

Projects and Releases

W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft

The first public working draft of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines 3.0 was released.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/wcag3-intro/

#wcag #w3c

pip 21.0

Version 21.0 of pip drops support for Python 2.

https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/#id1

#python #pip #type:release

Stepping Up for a Truly Open Source Elasticsearch

AWS is going to create and maintain an ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/

https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/

#aws #elastic #elasticsearch #kibana

Raspberry Pi Pico

»Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny, fast, and versatile board built using RP2040, a brand new microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the UK.«

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-pico/

#raspberry-pi #raspberry-pi-pico

Snort 3

Snort 3 was rewritten from scratch and is available now after seven years of development.

https://blog.snort.org/2021/01/snort-3-officially-released.html

#snort #ids #ips

Computer Science Courses With Video Lectures

https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

#learning #computer-science

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