Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering

Traceroute can points to a link having terrible latency, but despite what it appears, it's easy to misread the output and jump to the wrong conclusion.

Fragmentation has been a problem for quite some time in the Linux ecosystem. A variety of distributions exist today, with their own package managers and their own notions of what a "base system" consists of.

Pushing templates to network devices is really powerful. But there are a few caveats which could potentially ruin your day if you aren't aware of them.

Field notes from a software developer

Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and everything. That give them some interesting characteristics. First, they are the mos…

A logging format used inside companies such as Heroku and Stripe which is optimal for easy development, consistency, and good legibility for humans and computers.

HonSSH is designed to log all SSH communications between a client and server. - tnich/honssh

SSHPry v2 - Spy & Control os SSH Connected client's TTY - nopernik/SSHPry2.0

A proposed standard that allows websites to define security policies.

Explore the four different ways to perform disk I/O on Linux and the tradeoffs and what we chose for ScyllaDB to build a high-performing database.

Linux server administrators will want to patch their systems as soon as possible.

Posted by Fermin J. Serna, Staff Software Engineer, Matt Linton, Senior Security Engineer and Kevin Stadmeyer, Technical Program Manager O...

Linux kernel lifecycle tripled to match the realities of hardware development.

Save Code Share - A campaign to call attention to the implications of the EUs Copyright Reform for code sharing

Doing realtime processing with a general-purpose operating-system like
Linux can be a challenge by itself, but safety-critical realtime processing
ups the ante considerably. During a session at Open Source Summit North
America, Wolfgang Mauerer discussed…

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