1951
Cgit, Nginx and Gitolite: A Personal Git Server
Hi'ya I'm Bryan, and this is my collection of projects, ideas, thoughts, feelings, opinions, ramblings, concepts, concerns, notions, conclusions, blurbs, and schemes, to name a few.
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1952
Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes
How to provision a new NixOS machine on Digital Ocean with nixos-infect and automatically connect it to your Tailscale network, then use that server to set up a fully private Minecraft world.
1953
Container networking is simple (2020)
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.
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Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway
technology blog about ruby, scala, java, golang, software engineering and programming in general
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Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems
Note: This post is only kept up for historical reasons. The current ExaGear EULA doesn’t allow using ExaGear outside of Huawei Kunpeng processors.
1958
My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions
tl;dr: My ISP’s CGNAT session timeout is too short, meaning TCP keepalives gets dropped. Test if your own NAT, or your ISP’s CGN, violates RFC5382 ‘s REQ-5 using this tool: https://github.com/AndersTrier/NAT-TCP-test .
1959
The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
That standard image that explains the difference between on-premises, IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS in the cloud? You know what, it is hugely misleading. Here is the real deal.
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Who's at the Helm?
Or, how to deploy 25+ CVEs to prod in one command!
1962
Load testing is hard and the tools are not great
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale and see if it can handle it! It sounds…
1963
The Big Little Guide to Message Queues
A guide to the fundamental concepts that underlie message queues, and how they apply to popular queueing systems available today.
1964
Linux Hardening Guide
Linux is not a secure operating system . However, there are steps you can take to improve it. This guide aims to explain how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy. This guide attempts to be distribution-agnostic and is not tied to any specific one. DISCLAIMER: Do not attempt to apply anything in…
1965
Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry
Protobuf needs no introduction, but this post argues that you shouldn’t use it for telemetry. The basic premise of this post is that a good telemetry library needs to be lightweight to avoid perturbing the application; inefficient diagnostic tools are self-defeating. Unlike other formats, nested Protobuf messages…
1966
The future of electricity is local
I frequently read about proposals for new solar power developments where the resulting power is moved great distances to less sunny places, such as northern Europe from the Sahara, the US North Eas…
1967
Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard
Published: 27-12-2020 | Last update: 11-01-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
Adaptation, Algorithms and Ambience
1969
Run More Stuff in Docker
In 2020, Docker is the best medium for distributing and running most developer-facing software . It’s widely accepted that Docker is great for building and deploying the artifacts for your enterprise web app, but this is less well known when it comes to things like developer tools. However, running tools in containers…
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IPv6 WireGuard Peering
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
1972
Facebook reveals 'SuperCell' tower to increase connectivity in rural areas
As part of our efforts to help expand connectivity around the world, Facebook Connectivity has been prototyping SuperCell, a wide-area coverage solution for increasing mobile connectivity in rural …
1973
Bare-Metal Kubernetes with K3s
Learn how to configure K3s on bare-metal to run a Kubernetes cluster with just as much resilience and fault tolerance as a managed service.
1974
I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
Ben Nadel explains why his team has been hard at work merging "microservices" back into the "monolith". His team is not anti-microservices. And, in fact, both the expanding and the contracting of serv
1975
eBPF Is Awesome
A blog about programming, technology and open-source stuff.
1976
Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
I will be pleased if you subscribe to my Instagram (instagram.com/uptime.lab) and Twitter (twitter.com/Merocle). I do not post any spam — only my own projects and quite rarely. Your subscription is essential to me! If you're wondering how it can be used and why, please look at the introduction in the first article…
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Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google's products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that's not the point of this post. I found out about…
1979
Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack
We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. While investigations are underway, we want to provide the defender community with intel to understand the scope and impact, remediation guidance, and detections and protections we have built as a result.
1980
Airflow 2.0
We're proud to announce that Apache Airflow 2.0.0 has been released.