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We bring in Amy Marrich to break down the building blocks of OpenStack. There are nearly an overwhelming number of ways to manage your infrastructure, and we learn about one of the original tools.
Plus a few warm up stories, a war story, and more.
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James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishingScaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing — I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic that gets both the most raised eyebrows, as well the most "aha!" moments is the one on how the planning process for engineering has worked since the early years of Uber.Say hello to Kata Containers — Kata Containers bridges the gap between traditional VM security and the lightweight benefits of traditional Linux containers.Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers — Here's another story about broken things with some of the details changed just a little. If it sounds familiar, it's probably because your company also did it at some point.
It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.
Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF.
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What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation
Fedora 32 ChangeSet
Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32
TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check
ZFS...
Published 05/29/20
Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.
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Caddy offers TLS, HTTPS, and more in one dependency-free Go Web server
Caddy 2
Caddy v2 Improvements...
Published 05/15/20
We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.
Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.
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AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with...
Published 05/01/20