Articles

Assembly Line  

If you are looking for a way to build images quickly and easily, FAI.me is the place to go.

Tune Up  

We discuss the possible bottlenecks in Fibre Channel storage area networks and how to resolve them.

A New Beginning  

If your Linux system is failing to boot, the dracut tool can be a convenient way to build a new ramdisk.

Behind Time  

The Google SchedViz tool lets you visualize how the Linux kernel scheduler allocates jobs among cores and whether they are being usurped.

Castling  

Ceph distributed storage and Kubernetes container orchestration come together with Rook.

Pass the Test  

Regular expressions are invaluable for checking user input, but a vulnerability could make them ripe for exploitation.

Ducks in a Row  

To reduce the possibility of disk thrashing, optimize your data cache through spatial locality and cache-friendly algorithms and utilize fully the data loaded from slower storage media before moving on.

Renovated  

ITIL version 4.0 has undergone a fundamental revision and is now headed into the age of the cloud and DevOps.

Obstacle Course  

We test two candidates for viewing and converting video DVDs and Blu-ray discs, HandBrake and MakeMKV, and point out legal hurdles.

Something for Everyone  

Gitpod relies on technologies such as Docker and Eclipse Theia to serve up individual development environments for GitHub projects.