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The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux

Lately I’ve been trying to find (and understand) the limits of time syncing between Linux systems. How accurate can you get? What does it take to get that? And what things can easily add measurable amounts of time error? After most of a month (!), I’m starting to understand things. This is kind of a follow-on to a…

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Tailscale Services

Tailscale Services is a new way to define available resources on your network and expand the granularity of your access controls to resources that may not have Tailscale installed on them.

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Ansible vs. Chef (2015)

I wrote an earlier post about evaluating Ansible as an alternative to Chef. So after spending many years with Chef, I’ve found that Ansible is a lot easier to manage with startups. It’s easier to train developers, it’s easier to manage inventory and orchestration, and it works reasonably well on the scale of thousands…

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Amazon S3 Object Lambda

March 15, 2023 – You can now use S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to tailor content for end users. August 13, 2024 – Added a note clarifying that, when following the walkthrough, you should not mark the Specify Lambda function version option that was added after this post was published. When you store data in…