I've written hundreds of articles over the past two decades, and I always seem to come back to a single theme: sys admin tools. I have five favorite tools that have not only stood the test of time but have also served me well in every job I've held, including when I ran my own computer consulting company.
AMD Confirms CTS Labs vulnerability reports, Windows Remote Assistance vulnerability, Arduino adds Rasp Pi and BeagleBone to the Arduino Create platform, and Linux Foundation announces an embedded hypervisor.
With the right approaches and tools, you can design and manage cloud hardware as efficiently as possible – and discover as early as possible when to upgrade.
When dozens of new services and VMs emerge and disappear every day in dynamic cloud environments, conventional monitoring provides false alarms, not operational security.
Because the cloud is ubiquitous, some companies think that outsourcing their business applications to Amazon, Google, and the like is a breeze. In fact, on the way, treacherous winds blow just off the beaten track.
Designing your own hybrid IT structure as a digital mix of your servers and public or private clouds might be technically elegant and cost effective, but setup is time consuming. Thanks to Ansible, it might take less work than you think.
Jekyll is a lightweight, fast, HTML engine that renders websites with ease, with the added benefits of low cost, high speed, security, and free hosting with GitHub Pages.
A Jenkins build pipeline frees developers from repetitive manual build tasks by facilitating automation and provides broad traceability with continuous logging and feedback.
The Linux kernel has several I/O schedulers that can greatly influence performance. We take a quick look at I/O scheduler concepts and the options that exist within Linux.
Security vulnerabilities often remain unknown when the data they reveal is buried in the depths of logfiles. Apache Spot uses big data and machine learning technologies to sniff out known and unknown IT security threats.
Database administrators at the Swiss foundation Switch were increasingly encountering corrupt data, which prompted a painstaking bug hunt. The solution they found increased performance by a factor of six.
