Planet Debian
I recently had to upload a large number (~1 million) of files to Amazon S3. My first attempts revolved around s3cmd (and subsequently s4cmd) but both projects seem to based around analysing all the files first rather than blindly uploading them. This not…
9 January 2015Hacker News
This is a terminal game designed to test your knowledge of git commands. Each level in the game is a task to perform on this repo. Once you perform that task, you will be given your next task. There are a total of ten levels, each one harder than last! $…
8 January 2015Hacker News
If you’ve been watching our GitHub wiki, following us on Twitter, or reading the wikitech-l mailing list, you’ve probably known for a while that Wikipedia has been transitioning to HHVM. This has been a long process involving lots of work from many…
7 January 2015Hacker News
This is not an official Google product. novm is a legacy-free, type 2 hypervisor written in Go. Its goal is to provide an alternate, high-performance Linux hypervisor for cloud workloads. novm is unique because it exposes a filesystem-device as a primary…
7 January 2015Hacker News
If your church or organization hasn’t moved to online giving yet, the idea might seem overwhelming. Or maybe you have gone digital, but you’re not yet reaping the benefits. In either case, help is here.
7 January 2015Hacker News
6 January 2015Hacker News
Sysadmin Blog Docker, meet hype. Hype, meet Docker. Now: Let's have a sit down here and see if we can work through your neuroses. For those of you who don't yet know about Docker, it is a much-hyped Silicon Valley startup productising (what a horrible…
6 January 2015Hacker News
Live stream for foosball in action, much inception! Imagine you're in a shared office with a foosball table and many people in the office like to play foosball. Then sometimes when you want to play you'll make a trip down the stairs just to find out it's…
6 January 2015Hacker News
Founded in 2008, Phusion creates top of the line server software to power businesses like Apple, Intercom and Autodesk. It's been a while since we released the first beta of Phusion Passenger 5 (codename "Raptor"), the application server for Ruby,…
6 January 2015Hacker News
Dropbox owes a large share of its success to Python, a language that enabled us to iterate and develop quickly. However, as our infrastructure matures to support our ever growing user base, we started exploring ways to scale our systems in a more efficient…
6 January 2015