Articles and News

Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

The authors shed light on metastable failures in distributed systems. Paradoxically, features that improve the efficiency or reliability of the system are often the cause of such errors.

https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s11-bronson.pdf

#robustness #distributed-systems

Europe’s Software Problem

»Europe’s communication needs are currently almost exclusively delivered by Chinese hardware that connects us to US-based platforms. For a variety of reasons, this is not a good idea.«

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/europes-software-problem/

#europe #political #digital-sourvereignity

Unreliability At Scale

This blog post summarizes the recently published papers of Google and Facebook on the issue of silent data corruption.

https://blog.dshr.org/2021/06/unreliability-at-scale.html

#data-corruption

VPNs and Trust

»VPNs are entirely based on trust. «

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/vpns-and-trust.html

#vpn #security

Execute Docker Containers as QEMU MicroVMs

This article explains how to run docker containers inside a QEMU Microvm.

https://mergeboard.com/blog/2-qemu-microvm-docker/

#container #qemu #virtualization #virtualization-security

Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study

In this study, the authors took a close look into the evolution of UNIX, from the PDP-7 Research Edition to FreeBSD 11.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8704965

#unix #software-architecture #operating-system #computer-history

Projects and Releases

Debian 10.10

Debian 10.10 contains the latest corrections for security issues and serious problems.

https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210619

#type:release #debian

Alpine 3.14

https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.14.0-released.html

#type:release #alpine-linux

Buildah 1.21.0

Buildah version 1.21.0 introduces the --secret option to pass secret information with it being stored in the final image and will be shipped for Fedora 32, 33, and 34, as well as RHEL 8.5.

https://buildah.io/releases/2021/06/09/Buildah-version-v1.21.0.html

#container #buildah #type:release

Secure Linux Servers by Default

The author introduces an Ansible playbook for applying best practices for securing Linux servers.

https://fak3r.com/2021/06/18/secure-linux-servers-by-default/

#linux-security #ansible

zoxide

cd replacement inspired by z and z.lua.

https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

#cd-command #command-line

pyWhat

what is a python-based identification tool for text and files.

https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat

#command-line #security

RustDesk

RustDesk is a remote desktop software written in Rust.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk

#remote-desktop

pgCenter

»pgCenter is a command-line admin tool for observing and troubleshooting Postgres.«

https://github.com/lesovsky/pgcenter

#postgresql #command-line

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