First things first, if you do not know what is ACM Queue (or even worse, do not know what ACM is), click on the links provided. ACM relatively recently has reformed and now presents articles by industry experts, especially in the Queue magazine (you get an article from Queue with every Communications of the ACM… Continue reading Article Review: Containers will not fix your broken culture (and other hard truths)
Book Review: The Practice Of Cloud System Administration Volume 2 – Designing And Operating Large Distributed Systems
Hello everyone with another book review. This time, I will be reviewing a book that I consider a classic. As always, let’s start with the list of contents: Part I Design: Building it Designing in a distributed world Designing for Operations Selecting a Service Platform Application Architectures Design Patterns for Scaling Design Patterns for Resiliency… Continue reading Book Review: The Practice Of Cloud System Administration Volume 2 – Designing And Operating Large Distributed Systems
So you wanna be a programmer?
This (almost lost in time by now) article reflects my opinion towards the whole “Become an engineer in 3 months/weeks/whatever” bootcamps and whatnot. While the article has an infosec focus and the list of books is semi-outdated by now, you get the gist … PS. Obviously I am not ${tenex}
Hello world! (for the 3rd time)
Hope you enjoyed Commodity, and Cyberpunk as a Commodity before that, plus a number of personal blogs that thankfully are now presumed lost. Welcome back!
Book Review: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the cloud
Welcome back for another book review. This time, I am going to review a book that I have bought when it came out, in late 2013. I have always wanted to do a review of this one but it seems I had two options: Write a short review that probably does not do the book… Continue reading Book Review: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the cloud
Conference review: Distributed Matters Berlin 2015
“Kept you waiting, huh?” – to start the post with a pop culture reference. Yesterday, I was privileged enough to attend Distributed Matters Berlin 2015. The focus of the conference is, you guessed it, distributed systems, often within a NoSQL context. It was hosted at the awesome KulturBrauerei, a refurbished brewery. The format of the… Continue reading Conference review: Distributed Matters Berlin 2015
Book Review: DevOps Troubleshooting
Hello everyone and welcome back for another book review at woktime. Today’s edition is a short review of a short book called “DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices”. Without further ado, below is the Table Of Contents Troubleshooting best practices Why is the server so slow? Running out of CPU, RAM and Disk I/O Why… Continue reading Book Review: DevOps Troubleshooting
Book Review: PostgreSQL Replication
So for my series of System Engineering books, I will proceed with a short review of PostgreSQL Replication by Packt. The reason this book came to be a part of my collection is that while there is a lot of information regarding PostgreSQL replication out there, a lot of it is out of date, given… Continue reading Book Review: PostgreSQL Replication
Book Review: Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
For my kickoff of systems engineering book reviews I have chosen this book. While not being technical in the strict sense of the term (if you are looking for code snippets or ready-to-use architecture ideas, look elsewhere), this collection of 17 essays provides a birds-eye view of the relatively new principle of Web Operations. As… Continue reading Book Review: Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
Coming up on Commodity
For the past few months I have been silent, with the last entry being a re-blog from xorl’s (defunct?) blog. That is quite a long time for a writer’s block, eh? Well, here is some insight: professionally I have somewhat moved away from security to towards a systems engineering paradigm. While security still plays an… Continue reading Coming up on Commodity