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Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System
The Continental European (CE) Power System -a large synchronized area stretching from Spain to Türkiye and from Poland to Netherlands; encompassing 25 countries- is experiencing a continuous system frequency deviation from the mean value of 50 Hz, and this since mid of January 2018.
How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS
The details of running a complex ticket ranking site for under a dollar a month on AWS
Bandaid – Dropbox service proxy
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
Futures of distributions
Seems Debian is talking about why they are unable to package whole categories of modern software, such as anything using npm. It's good they're having a conversation about that, and I want to give a broader perspective.
Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability (2017)
For several years I managed the 3rd line site reliability operation for many of the world’s busiest gambling sites, working for a little-known company that built and ran the core backend online software for several businesses that each at peak could take tens of millions of pounds in revenue per hour. I left a couple…
A Practical Introduction to Container Terminology
It is deceptively simple to get started with Linux Containers, but how well do you really understand the underlying technology? Could you explain the architectural trade offs of container hosts
Nix 2.0 Released
Nix reference manual version overview
The Great Puri.sm Outage of 2018
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes
or: how you can deploy services to Kubernetes that require long periods of draining. #🌈 🌈 🌈 #If you want to jump directly to the technical solution, check out the project repo. Below is a short story about how we got to this solution.
Serverless Databases: The Future of Event-Driven Architecture
Serverless Database is specially designed for the workloads which are unpredictable & can change rapidly. Click to know everything about Serverless Database.
Dtrace for Linux
Not explicitly mentioned in that talk, but certainly the most exciting thing, is that Oracle is doing a proper linux kernel port:
Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown
Last week, the server farm of our LMU Student Council had a major downtime over almost five days. As part of the administrator team there, I’d like to publish this post mortem to share our experiences and lessons learned to avoid situations like this in the future.
Deploying a ReasonML React app with Docker
The top stories from Hasura: engineering, tutorials, product updates, GraphQL, frontend backend frameworks more!
Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Go Web-Apps
Step by step guide to build highly optimized docker images for Golang web-app development and deployment
RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
To date, we've shaved the Bionic (18.04 LTS) minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and...
The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
Kubernetes releases a new version every three months. We discuss where this pace comes from, why it's key to Kubernetes' success, and what it means for end-users.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017
Since 2013, Backblaze has been showcasing daily statistics from our hard drives. Find out how our drives have been doing throughout 2017 with this blog post.
Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS, Inc., an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions, for a purchase price of $250 million, subject to certain adjustments at closing that…
How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
A guide to self-hosting your email on FreeBSD using Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, and LDAP.
How and why I run my own DNS servers
Despite my woeful knowledge of networking, I run my own DNS servers on my own websites run from home.