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The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment
We move at an extraordinary pace at Instacart. In order to release new versions of our products multiple times a day, we need a testing…
The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey
How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.
How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (2014)
ContentsWhat is grid-interactive water heating? Benefits to the utilityLowest-cost energy storage New control technologiesSo far, no negative impact on customersGetting GIWHs into customers’ homesWhat’s happening with GIWHs now?
MicroShift
MicroShift has been specifically designed for edge computing use cases, with a goal of fitting in the limited storage capacity of field-deployed devices that can be embedded into a variety of appliances such as cars, factory lines, airplanes or even satellites.
New Linux vulnerability affecting cgroups: can containers escape?
CVE-2022-0492 is the third recent kernel vulnerability that allows malicious containers to escape. We offer root cause analysis and mitigations.
Making 1M requests with Python-aiohttp
In this post I’d like to test limits of python aiohttp and check its performance in terms of requests per minute. Everyone knows that asynchronous code perf...
For Static Sites, There’s No Excuse Not to Use a CDN
TinaCMS is the successor to Forestry.io, now maintained by SSW. Migrate your Forestry site to Tina with our step-by-step guide and enjoy enhanced visual editing features.
Why You Should Use Tumbleweed
People often ask me why they should use openSUSE Tumbleweed and how it compares to other distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu. The fact is Tumbleweed is actually rather hard, if not impossible to compare to Linux distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu.
Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment
Discover how Bootc and OSTree are revolutionizing Linux system deployment, offering modern, efficient, and immutable management.
Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
Introducing Infrastructure Manager, which integrates HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure as code workflow into the Google Cloud experience.
AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
A performance comparison between three different methods of deploying an API on AWS
root with a single command: sudo logrotate
Starting from the constraint that only sudo logrotate * may be run, and ending at root: abusing the log file flag to overwrite root owned scripts and ride cron to privilege escalation.
Comparing Filesystem Performance in Virtual Machines
For years, the primary bottleneck for virtual machine based development environments with Vagrant has been filesystem performance. CPU differences are minimal and barely noticeable, and RAM only becomes an issue when many virtual machines are active.
Scaling Asana.com
Are you interested in learning more about working on Asana's engineering team or the work they do? Read the Asana engineering blog.
Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5
So where has the last six months gone ? I was planning on getting images done for Fedora 44 Beta but I was unwell and busy and ran out of time. So what better time to get them out than Pi Day! .
My Own Private CDN
Yet another edition of Why Would You Ever Want To Do That
Hermes – package manager and deployment tool for Linux
This post is the first public announcement of my new package manager and deployment tool for linux - hermes .
Red Hat Universal Base Image
There are a lot of choices when it comes to container base images, so why should you select Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI)? Well, first off, all of the code in Red Hat Universal Base Image is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Running GUI apps with Docker
I've been doing all of my real (paid) work on VMs / containers for a while now but when it comes to writing Java code...
Agentic Monitoring
Agents are structurally well suited to monitoring production systems.