Prometheus is an open source monitoring and alerting system that provides insight into the state and history of a computer, application, or cluster by storing defined metrics in a time-series database. It provides a powerful query language, PromQL, to help you explore and understand the data it stores. Prometheus also includes an Alertmanager that makes it easy to trigger notifications when the metrics you collect cross certain thresholds.

The Gen X investors and CEOs who run the industry are stuck on the idea that private money will protect them from a promised hellscape.

In much of the Western world, mentioning Transylvania tends to evoke sinister imagery of dimly lit Gothic castles and notoriously blood-thirsty vampires. The region in central Romania has long been tied to the horrors of Bram Stoker's Dracula, an association that overshadows the area's rich history.

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

A survey of 600 IT professionals from mabl finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are organizational, not technological.

Being burnt out at work feels like this year’s life crisis. Almost every conversation I have with a friend in the industry lingers on the topic of struggling to focus at work. Last week, I was chatting with a friend and we diagnosed their core career ambition as the deep desire to spend several years sleeping. Reflecting on the chaos of the last year, that does, indeed, sound like a solid career plan.

In 2021, we will largely complete the process of designing, building and shipping RenderingNG, a next-generation rendering architecture for Chromium.

WebAssembly is a new cross platform assembly like language for building secure, universal, and fast apps.

Signals generated by the use of an ad blocker can improve browser fingerprinting accuracy. This novel browser fingerprinting method, while oft-discussed as a theoretical source of entropy, has only just been added to FingerprintJS as of April 2021.

The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.

Read about rug pull index and the thoughts that go into building it.

During August 2009, we went on a number of field trips to health centers in remote areas of Thailand and Cambodia. The idea was to conduct...

Many engineering departments, libraries, and universities are launching new initiatives to create makerspaces, physical spaces where students, faculty, and the broader community can gather and share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build. In creating these innovative spaces we should apply principles of universal design to ensure the spaces, tools, and

The story about a cool project I’ve worked on recently — a full Python interpreter running inside the Linux kernel.

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OpenShift 4.8, the latest version of , launched this week, amalgamating a number of recent releases, such as OpenShift GitOps and Pipelines, and adding new features such as sandboxed containers, serverless functions, pipelines-as-code, and more. OpenShift 4.8 is based on both Kubernetes 1.21 and CRI-O (Container Runtime Interface) 1.21. The common theme to OpenShift 4.8…

I've been covering this application development space for a long time and have seen a lot of breakthroughs. Some catch my eye more than others, and GitHub's Copilot is one of those eyecatchers. GitHub calls Copilot its AI pair programming companion for developers. The technology is truly promising. "GitHub Copilot draws context from the code…

Throughout the history of Free and Open Source software (FOSS), copyright assignment has simultaneously been controversial and accepted as the norm in our FOSS communities. This paradox, I believe, stems entirely from some key misunderstandings that perpetuate. This issue requires urgent discussion, as two of the most important FOSS projects in history (GCC and glibc) are right now considering substantial and swift changes to long-standing copyright policies that date back to the 1980s. This event, and other recent events over the last few years in the area of GPL compliance and corporate FOSS adoption, point to long-term problems for projects. This essay works through these nuances, and will hopefully assist FOSS contributors as they make difficult decisions about copyright ownership for their projects. At the end, I provide a summary list of issues to consider when creating copyright ownership policies for FOSS.

Consumer onboarding is one of the, if not the most, important functions of a customer identity and access management (CIAM) solution. An overly complicated onboarding workflow significantly detracts from the consumer experience. Providing an effective, engaging and efficient onboarding workflow without compromising security has always been a challenge among security and risk professionals. The inspiration…

NVMe is a set of protocols and technologies that dramatically accelerate the way data is transmitted, stored and retrieved. In this article, we discuss why NVMe is emerging now, summarize the architecture of NVMe and NVMe over Fabric, and outline common use cases and benefits. What Is Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)? NVMe is arguably the…

There are four types of mobile internet connection: 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. We compare the real-world impact in terms of speeds and download times.

The make utility and its related Makefile have been used to build software for a long time. The Makefile defines a set of commands to run, and the make utility runs them. It is similar to a Dockerfile or Containerfile—a set of commands used to build container images.

There’s almost no sport or physical activity where that advice isn’t useful. Golf. Ping pong. Dancing. The more likely it is that people are tempted to focus on their hands or feet, the…

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Over time I'm migrating my digital life away from Google products, in this article I talk about moving from Google Photos to Nextcloud.