Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are…

Memory Management Types of Profiling Tools Matrix Analysis Steps Base Example ReadMemStats Pprof Trace Conclusion Note: I highly recommend also reading this official diagnostics documentation.
Memory Management Before we dive into the techniques and tools…

The simplest way to send your files around the world using IPFS. ✏️ 🗃 - FileNation/FileNation

The Apache CouchDB development community is proud to announce the immediate availability of versions 2.1.1 and 1.7.0. Both releases are security releases and fix multiple CRITICAL issues. Updates a…

One the biggest security news stories of 2017 was of a ransomware variant targeting improperly secured MongoDB instances. Here it is in a nutshell: some users of MongoDB accidentally left their databases exposed to the internet without any authentication.…

This is a guest post by a young and talented Portuguese exploiter, Federico Bento. He won this year’s Pwnie for Epic Achievement exploiting TIOCSTI ioctl.
Days ago he posted a video …

Out with Xen, in with 'core KVM technology' for new C5 instances and future VMs too

Like so many things in life, serverless is a spectrum with multiple dimensions along which the degree of each can vary

For the first time in a while, Intel has serious competition in the server market: Qualcomm and Cavium both have new server platforms based on the ARMv8 64-bit architecture.

Humans are great storytellers and even better story-listeners. We love to hear stories so much that when there aren't any available, we make them up on our own. From an early age, children grasp the idea of narrative. Even if they don't understand the forms…

Implementing a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline is not trivial, and the introduction of container technology to the development stack can introduce additional…

During a recent NTP migration, here’s how we searched for—and found—rogue devices using New Relic Infrastructure and Puppet.

GitHub is at a scale that provides exposure to interesting aspects of running a major site and are working to mature and level-up many parts of our infrastructure as we grow. One of the areas where this is evident is in how your requests find their destination…

Lessons from Site Reliability Engineering: Part 1

Check out the new Buildah project logo. Isn’t it sweet?

Getting Started with Buildah

I’ve been working with Linux containers at Red Hat since OpenShift used cartridges. With the help of some colleagues in Redwood City, I built a Red Hat MRG Messaging (Qpid)…

A small Ruby Gem to run RSpec and Serverspec, Infrataster and Capybara tests against Dockerfiles or Docker images easily. - zuazo/dockerspec

Microservices are here to stay. When applied properly, microservices techniques and culture ultimately help us continuously improve business at a faster pace than traditional architecture. However, microservices architecture itself can be complex to configure.…