How to Install SQLite and SQLite Browser on Ubuntu 20.04
Sqlite is a lightweight but feature-rich database management system that is widely used in embedded systems like mobile devices. In this guide, we wil...
Building and testing base images for Kubernetes cluster nodes with Packer, qemu and Chef InSpec | elastisys
This post will detail an approach for building a base image on top of Ubuntu to be used as a start image for provisioning Kubernetes nodes (masters or workers) running as virtual machines. We will be using packer to automate the build process and to ensure basic compliance testing with InSpec tests. The target audience […]
Reason wanted me to make a choice, and I am so glad I didn’t. Because the more I kept delving into both Elixir and Go, the more I found out how complementary the two can be to one another.
Ingrid Burrington: I've lately been trying an exercise where, when reading anything by or about tech companies, I replace uses of the word "infrastructure" with "means of production." For example, from Facebook's engineering web page: "Our data centers are the cornerstones of the global means of production that brings Facebook apps and services to you every day." The sentence pretty much ...
Goofy Feet: The US Plans to Finally Standardize the Length of a Single Foot - 99% Invisible
The United States remains one of the few places on the planet not to have adopted the metric system. Instead of looking to remedy that particular disconnect, the country seems to be doubling down by standardizing something most would assume already was: the foot. Remarkable as it may seem, there are two “feet” of different
When corporations crash through regulations – think mega-banks nearly crashing the entire global economy – our response is to repair the regulatory fences.
The language we use, the standards we adhere to, the kind of interactions that are permitted–this is up to the host. You’re at a dinner party, and if you want to be welcomed back, you&#…
Which Comes First: Istio or Kubernetes? – The New Stack
What we do know about Kubernetes? It's a raw, gaping maw. It's not meant for most of us. What is needed? Access to the grinding, digital gears that make what we know of as distributed architectures. Istio is an example of a management layer for Kubernetes, said Zack Butcher, part of the founding engineering team…
The Central Tenets of Serverless Infrastructure – The New Stack
Many enterprises are building their IT modernization, digital transformation and microservices initiatives on serverless platforms. Serverless platforms are well-suited to workloads that are on-demand, event-driven, asynchronous, stateless and scalable. They are also optimal for cloud workloads that experience infrequent, unpredictable surges in demand. Common examples of workloads suited to serverless include low-latency processing of real-time…
The Overflow #70: Networked spreadsheets - Stack Overflow Blog
Welcome to ISSUE #70 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. Delve into the mysteries of superpositional drunken stumbles, the physics of the correct way to hang your toilet paper, and JavaScript that returns like a GOTO command. From the blog Stack…
How the OpenTelemetry Protocol Works with Lightstep and Prometheus – The New Stack
We’ve been hard at work making metrics telemetry an integral part of Lightstep. As part of this effort, we’ve been looking at the problem of data ingest. Unlike distributed tracing, which is a relatively recent addition to many observability stacks, metrics has been the backbone since the time of dinosaurs. We’re very interested in the…
Diane Doniol-Valcroze on Twitter: "The Siberian unicorn. Reconstruction of an Elasmotherium, an extinct species of rhino that lived in the Eurasian area in the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene eras. https://t.co/UD2CrwZxF5" / Twitter