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Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
Compare real-world RAM consumption of AppImage and Flatpak packages on low-memory Linux hardware. See how each format handles dependencies and…
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VyOS From Scratch – Edition 1 (set up your own router)
As a VyOS evangelist, maintainer, and more, I’ve been meaning to write a simple series of “how-to” guides for VyOS for a while. Sure, there are plenty of guides out there, but I think a lot of them fall short in demonstrating WHY you are entering specific commands.
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Microsoft is Abandoning SHA-1 Hashes for Updates
Microsoft is shipping a patch to eliminate SHA-1 hashes from its update process. There’s nothing wrong with eliminating SHA-1—but their reasoning may be very interesting.
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Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera
Why buy a bespoke camera when you can do something much harder instead?
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Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale
Post describing how I've configured pihole to return different results to clients on my tailnet than those on the LAN.
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Building a Relational Database Using Kafka
In a previous post, I showed how Kafka can be used as the persistent storage for an embedded key-value store, called KCache. Once you have a key-value store, it can be used as the basis for other m…
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.NET Core Web API on AWS Lambda Performance
In order to understand what I’m going to talk about, you must know what is AWS Lambda, I talked about in this blog post where I went through getting started with Visual studio code and AWS Lambda, …
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Don’t Be Afraid of RAID
I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large.
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We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
Why are people so concerned with hardware power consumption nowadays? Some common answers to this question are that power is critically important for phones, tablets, and laptops and that we can put more silicon on a modern chip than we can effectively use . In 2001 Patrick Gelsinger observed that if scaling continued…
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Lock-In and Multi-Cloud
Alone in a room with the customer’s CTO, I said “So, I spent this morning talking to your people, and it looks like you’re using low-level generic tech for everything and managing it yourself. You could save a shit-ton of money by using high-level managed services and get load-scaling for free.” “Yeah,” he said, “but…
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Stop Doing Cloud
An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.
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Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)
Hanging out in subreddits like /r/homelab, /r/servers, and /r/datahoarder, I see this question asked too many times: I have extra space in my home server, how …
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Using /usr/local
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.
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Build an SMS Forwarder with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Waveshare SIM7000E Hat
In this guide, I will explain how to receive SMS messages and forward them to your Telegram account using Raspberry PI Zero W and Wireshare GSM hat. Python will be used to read SMS messages and forward them to Telegram Bot API. Messages will be listened to by Gammu SMS service and it will trigger the Python script…
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The Cloud Is Not for You
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Launching Route 53 Files
Four decades ago, when the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server launched, it stored DNS records in "zone files". You could edit these files in vi , but BIND had to be told to reload them before your changes took effect. Later, other DNS servers came along, like Daniel Bernstein's tinydns, which served records directly…
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Know How To Roll Your SSL Certificates
Learn how to keep your SSL certificates up to date and valid.
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How to port your OS to EC2 (2018)
You're going to want to make some changes to what goes into that disk image later, but for now just build a disk image.
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Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management
The completed Pilo controller, before final installation. The USB capture card and Arduino Nano USB serial are soldered to the underside of the 3B+.
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Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
Leverage S3 and CloudFront to host your web app in an infinitely scalable way.