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I've been running firewalls since the days of m0n0wall on CF cards, and I still remember the sinking...

Reliability engineering requires precision tools capable of handling complex failure modes. relysam...

Look, if you're still paying for proprietary Unix licenses or fighting with bloated Windows Server...

By Design — Episode 07 In the summer of 1969, Ken Thompson had three weeks of uninterrupted time....

Technical Beauty — Episode 38 A maintainer sends you a fix. Not as a branch on a server somewhere,...

The Unix Way — Episode 19 There is a class of error message that every engineer who has touched a...

On Second Thought — Episode 10 The pager has gone off. Memory on the auth service is climbing in a...

Technical Beauty — Episode 37 A disk is filling up. Somewhere under /var are thousands of stale...

The Unix Way — Episode 18 A laptop is left on a train. With full-disk encryption, the person who...

Wire Fire — Episode 03 On a shared hosting server you share one machine with hundreds of...

Tales from the Bare Metal — Episode 04 23 September 1999. The Mars Climate Orbiter fires its main...

Technical Beauty — Episode 36 A development server holds a mystery. Someone deployed something,...