SQLite

RePost: SQLite is not a toy database by Anton Zhiyanov

A nice write up about the very powerful but often under appreciated SQLite. Do not let anyone say otherwise, SQLite is a valid solution for…
container yard

A Practical Example of Container Portability: DynaTrace ActiveGate in AWS ECS

Pre-Flight General Knowledge Requirements The Problem The Workload Scope While containers may be portable; orchestration feature coverage varies widely. For brevity this topic is out…
Boing stock dive

Why Cutting Costs Is Expensive

A really good article by Eric Elliott over on Medium centering on cost cutting, project management, and the tragically large impact of “penny-wise dollar|euro|pound foolish”.…
QEMU

Build QEMU on Fedora 40

Problem Recent ran into an error using QEMU 8.x on Fedora 40 (via dnf install) and needed to upgrade to the latest QEMU (9.1.x at…
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I broke “dnf” on my (Fedora 40) localhost; here is how I fixed it.

Just a quick one here. Yesterday I was messing around inside the /usr dir and broke the dnf package manager on my Fedora Core 40…
How the Internet was Stolen

How the Internet was Stolen by Then & Now

I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft’s…

Turns out, Hashicorp is a garbage organization.

TL;DR: Hashicorp send DMCA to OpenTofu group accusing them of duplicating copyrighted code. Turns out Hashicorp copied the code to look like OpenTofu. All of…

OpenTofu Stable Release Available Now!

The OpenTofu team has annouced the general availability of 1.6. This is a drop in replacement of Terraform. Checkout the release, getting-starting, and migration guide;…

Tooling: IAM Legend

AWS IAM actions autocomplete, documentation and wildcard resolution for Visual Studio Code. Supports Serverless Framework, AWS SAM, CloudFormation and Terraform. This extension come from Sebastian Bille over…
Speed Gauge

How to: Host an secure, serverless high performance static website in AWS

The Situation In todays internet website hosting complexity goes from simple to complex very quickly. With the multitude of requirements scaling from just a webpage…