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Aug 29

Why Your Alpine Containers Might Be Hiding a Security Blind Spot

#cybersecurity #docker #linux #security

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Aug 28

When 'No space left on device' has nothing to do with disk space

#debugging #devops #linux

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Aug 27

Nginx proxy_pass: The trailing slash that changes everything

#backend #devops #infrastructure

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Aug 26

That Time Your Deploy Failed Because SSH Thought You Were an Attacker

#automation #devops #infrastructure #linux

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Aug 25

That Time Client Retries Turned a Recovery Into a 7-Hour Outage

#architecture #devops #sre #systemdesign

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Aug 24

That time YAML silently broke your config because of Norway

#devops #software #softwaredevelopment

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Aug 23

The sudoers.d Trap That'll Waste an Hour of Your Life

#linux #sysadmin #devops #security

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Aug 22

Why Your Kubernetes Automation Keeps Getting Blocked by Humans

#automation #devops #kubernetes

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Aug 21

Bash Parameter Expansion: Two Quirks That Slip Through Code Reviews

#bash #programming #software

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Aug 20

Nginx proxy_buffering: the one setting that quietly breaks your backend under load

#backend #devops #infrastructure #performance

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Aug 19

When Disk Space Is Not Disk Space: The Inode Exhaustion Problem

#devops #infrastructure #linux #sre

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Aug 18

strace in production: when your process won't start and logs say nothing

#debugging #devops #linux

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Aug 15

Why logrotate silently does nothing and how to actually debug it

#debugging #devops #infrastructure #linux

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Aug 14

One-Command VPS Reinstall: Two Things Worth Knowing

#automation #cli #devops #linux

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Aug 13

Why BusyBox in Your Alpine Containers Is a Bigger Problem Than You Think

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Aug 12

The logrotate copytruncate race condition that silently drops logs

#backend #devops #linux

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Aug 12

Bare-Metal Kubernetes: What NKP Metal Gets Right

#devops #infrastructure #kubernetes

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Aug 4

Your Internal Developer Platform Is Probably Ignoring Your Java Services

#architecture #backend #devops #java

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Aug 3

SSH Key Permissions: The 5-Minute Fix That Actually Works

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Aug 2

When Your Script Dies with EPIPE: The Bug Is Two Functions Upstream

#cli #debugging #linux #python

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Aug 1

Your Alpine Base Image Has BusyBox. That's Probably Fine Until It's Not.

#devops #docker #linux

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Jul 30

set -e Will Kill Your Script For No Good Reason

#automation #cli #linux #programming

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Jul 29

The One-Line Audit That Might Save You a Container Incident

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Jul 28

Why Your rsyslog Config Is Quietly Breaking (And How to Fix It)

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Jul 28

You might not need Redis: a DB table and your filesystem do more than you think

#architecture #backend #database #systemdesign

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Jul 27

Your Secure Boot Keys Expired in June — Here's How to Check

#cli #linux #security

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Jul 25

Bare-Metal Kubernetes: What NKP Metal Gets Right

#devops #infrastructure #kubernetes

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Jul 24

systemd RestartSec does not wait for your process to actually exit

#backend #devops #linux

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Jul 23

Bare-Metal Kubernetes Without the Management Overhead

#devops #infrastructure #kubernetes

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Jul 22

The BusyBox in Your Alpine Containers Is a Security Risk You Probably Didn't Know About

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Jul 21

Gitea's Docker Image Shipped a Dangerous Default, and It's Still Catching People

#docker #security #devops #selfhosted

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Jul 20

Linux cgroups: Limiting Process Resources Without the Pain

#devops #infrastructure #linux #tutorial

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Jul 20

Nginx Log Woes: When $remote_addr Lies to You

#debugging #devops #networking #tutorial

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Jul 15

git absorb: the fixup workflow that sorts itself out

#automation #git #productivity #tooling

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Jul 14

When Your Scheduled Job Takes Longer Than Its Interval

#architecture #automation #backend #systemdesign

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Jul 12

Bare-Metal Kubernetes: What the Noise Is Actually About

#architecture #infrastructure #kubernetes #performance

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Jul 11

jq in Shell Scripts: The Small Things That Trip You Up

#devops #shell #bash #jq

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Jul 1

Linux 7.2 cut pipe mutex contention — why your shell pipelines just got faster

#news #architecture #linux #performance

2 min read

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Jun 30

The Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 expired last week. Here's what to check.

#sysadmin #security #devops

2 min read

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Jun 30

Your CI ran code it should not have, and you cannot prove it did not

#cicd #devops #opensource #security

2 min read

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Jun 25

The jq newline that silently corrupted my URLs

#cli #devjournal #linux #tooling

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Jun 24

Making HTTP requests from a container with no curl

#devops #sysadmin #containers

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Jun 23

You might not need Redis: a DB table and your filesystem do more than you think

#architecture #backend #database #systemdesign

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Jun 22

IPv6 zone identifiers do not belong in URLs

#backend #infrastructure #networking #webdev

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Jun 21

IPv6 zone identifiers in URLs are a quiet parser gotcha

#backend #networking #programming #python

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Jun 20

The queue probability drops faster than you think when you add servers

#computerscience #distributedsystems #performance #systemdesign

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Jun 19

Homebrew 6.0 sandbox: what the systemd confinement actually does

#devops #sysadmin #linux

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Jun 18

Batch-converting documents to markdown with Microsoft's markitdown

#cli #microsoft #python #tooling

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Jun 17

Systemd timer units: two things cron still cant do

#automation #devops #linux

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Jun 16

Your Java Container Is Lying to You About Its Memory

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Jun 4

Your gRPC health check might be lying to you

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Jun 3

Git rerere: the feature you didnt know you needed

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Jun 2

Git rerere: the setting I enable on every machine after forgetting it exists

#git #productivity #tooling #tutorial

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Jun 1

Go's httptrace: debugging HTTP request pipelines without leaving the standard library

#backend #go #networking #tutorial

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May 31

Google API Key Deletion Is Not Instant — Here's What Actually Happens

#api #distributedsystems #google #security

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May 30

When Your VPS Blocks Outbound SMTP: What Actually Helps

#cloud #devops #infrastructure #networking

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May 29

Enable http2 debug logging in Apache to catch HTTP/2 abuse patterns

#monitoring #networking #security #tutorial

2 min read

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May 28

Why Your Kubernetes Cost Optimizations Stay Manual (And What Actually Helps)

#automation #devops #infrastructure #kubernetes

2 min read

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May 27

A Caddy Cert Expired Because systemd-resolved Was Selectively Lying

#ssh #dns #devops #sysadmin

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May 26

systemd-resolved broke my TLS cert renewal

#ssh #dns #devops #sysadmin

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