Synthetic Monitoring is something that we all do and all solutions have the same basic concept. But what happens with you have a failure, and no alert?

Why is it wrong to assume failures are preventable in IT? Why does optimising for robustness leave organisations ill-equipped to deal with failure, and what are the usual outcomes?

In this article Steve Smith explains why a production environment is always…

Anchore Navigator digs into images found in parts of operating systems that are missing, such as kernel and hardware-specific modules.

Terraform is a powerful tool for orchestrating cloud infrastructure, and, arguably, an essential tool once your infrastructure reaches a…

Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances using Docker on an external volume

Read on to learn how to use NGINX to perform various rate limiting operations, including setting up request rates for different locations on HTTP requests.

Over the past few days we learned about a new attack that posed a serious weakness in the encryption protocol used to secure all modern Wi-Fi networks.

cgroupv1 (or just "cgroups") has helped revolutionise the way that we manage and use containers over the past 8 years. A complete overhau...

Title: HTTPS or not HTTPS, that is the question; Date: 2017-10-21; Author: Nsukami

Scaling up TCP servers is usually straightforward. Most deployments start by using a single process setup. When the need arises more worker processes are added.

Did you know that when you’re using OpenSSH from the command line you have a variety of escape sequences available to you? SSH somewhere, then type “~” and “?” (tilde, then question mark) to see all the options. You should get something like: Supported escape…

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Percona Senior Support Engineer Marcelo Altmann provides tips and advice on carrying out MySQL point in time recovery (PITR) correctly.

Did you know you can "monkey patch" the Linux kernel to change its behavior on-the-fly? It turns out it's pretty easy with SystemTap.

Together, you can use fzf and fd to quickly find files and change directories.

Intro One of the ironies of working a lot with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift is that I’ve had to learn a lot about Vagrant and Virtualbox. Mostly I use it to spin up OpenShift clusters on…

This article presents a software-based prototype able to estimate the most queried domain names in a stream of DNS traffic at 12Mpps (wire-rate 10GbE). The goal is to identify domains involved in random qname attacks. This prototype is a proof-of-concept…