Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-11-30:	Prometheus will make persistent connections to agents (scrape targets)
2021-11-29:	The long term relative prices of M.2 NVMe drives and 2.5" SSDs
2021-11-28:	The problem I have with Pip's dependency version handling
2021-11-27:	Two stories of how and why simultaneous multithreading works
2021-11-26:	How we use the SLURM job scheduler system on our compute servers Why region based memory allocation help with fragmentation
2021-11-25:	Computation that needs to be "secure" is everywhere in practice
2021-11-23:	I wish systemd logged information about the source of "transactions"
2021-11-22:	Why it matters to us if exploits are available for security issues
2021-11-21:	Why V7 Unix matters so much
2021-11-20:	Linux has no fair-share scheduling that really works for compute servers Why your Go programs can surprisingly be dynamically linked
2021-11-18:	What data about your NVMe drives Linux puts in sysfs
2021-11-17:	Why we have a split-horizon DNS setup
2021-11-16:	Why we have public websites on private IPs (internally)
2021-11-15:	Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
2021-11-14:	Go 1.18 will let you set the version of the "AMD64" architecture to target
2021-11-13:	Considering "iowait" CPU time and CPU utilization
2021-11-12:	A linear, sequential boot and startup order is easier to deal with
2021-11-11:	I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs
2021-11-10:	People will always exploit presentation, because presentation matters
2021-11-09:	Our new way of waiting for the network to be "up" in systemd's world
2021-11-08:	Soon to expire TLS certificates aren't necessarily a problem
2021-11-07:	Systemd timer units don't have much appeal for us (over crontab entries)
2021-11-06:	Thinking about when our crontab entries run
2021-11-05:	If we use PyPy, we'll likely use our own install of it
2021-11-04:	Two different worldviews of version control systems
2021-11-03:	Thinking through the threat models when encrypting your backups
2021-11-02:	Why I maintain my private changes to upstream projects via rebasing
2021-11-01:	Rebasing changes can be common when working with version control systems

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