In this blog post, Peter Zaitsev takes a look at disk utilization and saturation.

Building software at scale requires strong governance of the software supply chain, and strong governance requires good data. Today, Google, along with JFr

The git bomb. Crafting compact repos that can't be cloned.

Over the past few years, Docker set out to build its own container management and orchestration layer. It's been a positively essential part of the company's roadmap, and one that most investors saw as the end-game play to bring in enterprise buyers at high…

By Ludovic Galibert, Vasanth Asokan and Sangeeta Narayanan

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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