Netflix, the popular movie streaming site, deploys a hundred times per day, without the use of Chef or Puppet, without a quality assurance department and without release engineers. To do this, Netflix built an advanced in-house PaaS (Platform as a Service) that allows each team to deploy their own part of the infrastructure whenever they want, …
Note: Often Hotspot cannot achieve these targets and will silently continue without warning, having missed its target by a great margin. Latency is a distribution across events. It may be acceptable to have an increased average latency to reduce the worse-case latency, or make it less frequent. We should not interpret the term “real-time” to …
RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform. It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels via RetroShare.
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Managing Linux software installation is usually a simple process thanks to packaging tools such as yum and APT. Building packages, however, is a whole different story. FPM (Effing Package Management – don’t blame us, we didn’t name it) is a simpler alternative. You can use FPM to build RPM and DEB packages and then create …
As portable computing goes, the Raspberry Pi could hardly be bettered. Small enough to slip inside a pocket, it can go anywhere and everywhere with you. Yet to use the Pi as a standard Linux machine kind of misses the point – or, at the very least, the opportunities afforded by this small-form-factor, high-spec wonder. …
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Docker – the Linux container engine.
We must generally assume that adding elements to a vector will invalidate every reference, pointer, or iterator that refers to a vector element. Last week, I pointed out that putting a new element in a vector might reallocate the vector. As a result of this behavior, we must generally assume that adding elements to a …
Introduction to MapReduce with Hadoop on Linux | Linux Journal.