Weekly Shaarli
Week 28 (July 12, 2021)
VGA PCI Pass-through KVM optimized for low latency and performance.
Among other improvements, mitmproxy now supports TLS-over-TLS, HTTP/2 - HTTP/1 interopatibility, and host header-based proxying.
With dynamic CPU scaling, the time a CPU took to complete a task and how much work the CPU did have to do, are two different things.
Microsoft introduces Windows 365, its virtual desktop product.
For data protected by the GDPR, encryption is not sufficient for processing data.
Harvester is a bare metal HCI solution by SUSE.
This week, version 7 of the Proxmox Virtualization Environment landed. It is already based on the upcoming Debian 11, and among other improvements, it supports using BTRFS and Ceph version 16.2.
In his LISA21 talk, Brendan Gregg gives an overview and makes some predictions on server performance.
This blog post gives a brief introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Post-Mortem über einen Incident mit dem Ceph-Cluster bei Uberspace, verursacht durch eine Spannungsschwankung.
»Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet.«
Virtuozzo Linux is another alternative to RHEL/CentOS 8.4.
»A team at the Technische Universität Dresden has developed the first implementation of a complementary, vertical organic transistor technology.«
Poul-Henning Kamp on why it's time for governments to establish IT accident investigation boards.
»Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C.«
»Rustpad is an efficient and minimal open-source collaborative text editor based on the operational transformation algorithm.«
In this post, the author gives a short introduction to using virt-backup for KVM backups.
TCP Fast Open allows the initial SYN packet to contain data. This post shows what practical challenges TFO is currently facing.
In this blog post, the author introduces his custom build 25 Gbit/s Internet router.
rpm-ostree is a hybrid image/package system allowing atomic upgrades/rollbacks.
OpenSearch, Amazon's fork of Elasicsearch and Kibana, is now generally available.
Like Proxmox VE, the new release of Proxmox Backup Server is based on the upcoming Debian Bullseye and includes Kernel 5.11 as well as ZFS 2.0.
Two-part blog series on installing SCO UNIX.
Percona finds that MySQL on ZFS is now on par with ext4 performance-wise for their test use case.
The Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) is the open-source base for the federated data infrastructure project Gaia-X.
»OpenVAS is a full-featured vulnerability scanner.«
XCP-ng is an open-souce Hypervisor based on XenServer.
Version 22 of Nextcloud Hub is now available. Some of the improvements: User-defined groups, integrated chat and task management, PDF document signing, and integrated knowledge management.
Dan Langille on upgrading jails with mkjail without a jail manager being involved.
The author explains how Postgres out-of-memory situations are handled differently on cloud instances.