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This short series of posts comes out of a project I did with Diptanu Choudary, lots of discussions with other expert DistSys practitioners here at CS and elsewhere and my own background as an early engineer in the field. Everyone has an opinion. This is mine.…

Kafka is a word that gets heard a lot nowadays… A lot of leading digital companies seem to use it as well. But what is it actually?

Learn how to identify and track key PostgreSQL performance metrics in this monitoring guide.

DevOps is a new organisational model which attempts to better connect workers with the users of their products and services by foregoing the traditional grouping of people by function for a grouping by product or service. Anyone who has worked in a ‘tiger…

Explains how to install and use ioping - a simple disk I/0 latency measuring tool on Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/MacOS and Unix.

In This Section Introduction Prerequisites Configuring NGINX and NGINX Plus Complete Example Introduction NGINX and NGINX Plus can authenticate each request to your website with an external server or service. To perform authentication, NGINX makes an HTTP…

Get a brief introduction to Joplin, an open source Evernote alternative for storing notes, files, and more.

Docker configuration for building Linux From Scratch system - reinterpretcat/lfs

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.9, our fourth and final release this year.
Today’s release continues the evolution of an increasingly rich feature set, more robust stability, and even greater community contributions. As the fourth release…

If you need a quick OpenSSH client or server for Windows 10, there is a beta client hidden and available for installation

Guest Post: Learn about the significant recent changes being made to the core Internet protocols.

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I spent last week configuring and setting up Vault HA, with a Consul backend. It took me a bit longer to configure than a normal install…

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