This article was adapted from part of my Pluralsight course, “Connecting On-prem Resources to your AWS Infrastructure.” Do you sometimes need to connect to resources you’ve got running on Amazon Web Services? Accessing your public EC2 instances using SSH and… Continue Reading
This article is based on my Linux Performance Monitoring and Tuning course on Pluralsight which, by coincidence, was released just before news of Spectre and Meltdown broke. By now the critical stage of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities is largely over. Patches for affected… Continue Reading
Container virtualization — most visibly represented by Docker — is aserver paradigm that will likely drive enterprise computing for yearsto come. The Cloud is the most obvious and logical platform for containerdeployment. Amazon Web Services largely dominates the cloud computing world.Add it up. If… Continue Reading
This article, which also appears among my Medium articles, is based on a chapter from my free online book, Solving for Technology: how to quickly learn valuable new skills in a madly changing technology world. There’s lots more where that… Continue Reading
This article, which also appears among my Medium articles, was excerpted from chapter 9 of my Manning book, Linux in Action. Besides the book, you can also work through Linux in Motion — a hybrid course made up of more than two hours… Continue Reading
This article, which also appears among my Medium articles, is excerpted from chapters 6 and 9 of my Manning book, Linux in Action. Besides the book, you can also work through Linux in Motion — a hybrid course made up of more than… Continue Reading
This article, which also appears on my Medium account, is excerpted from chapter 10 of my Manning book, Linux in Action. Besides the book, you can also work through Linux in Motion — a hybrid course made up of more than two hours… Continue Reading
Doing what I do for a living, which these days mostly involves creating technology books and courseware, I’m constantly learning new technologies. In a way, my new tech adventures are not much different than the ones most IT pros face,… Continue Reading
Smart and experienced admins are worth their weight in gold, but how many of them had that kind of value when they started out? Building up a solid and reliable IT team to serve your operation can be like planning… Continue Reading
Tied up in a recent AWS announcement about a new EC2 high-end instance type (the C5) is a strong suggestion that Amazon’s cloud computing giant has begun to shift its hundreds of thousands of physical servers away from the open source Xen… Continue Reading