A guide to using scheduled autoscaling for Azure SQL Database and Azure Analysis Services to reduce cloud costs, with updated open-source scripts.
Fedora Scientific now offers Vagrant boxes, providing a pre-configured environment for scientific computing with KDE desktop and open-source tools.
Analysis of IBM's $34B acquisition of Red Hat, discussing cloud wars, open source culture, and the future of both tech giants.
Explains virtual memory, MMU, page tables, and how processes use memory mapping and swap space.
Explains .NET Core shared frameworks, comparing framework-dependent vs. self-contained deployments and detailing how the host loads dependencies.
Explains Terraform's sha1(), sha256(), and sha512() hash functions, their usage, and security considerations.
Explains the role of shells in Wayland compositors using wlroots, detailing how surfaces become functional UI elements like windows and menus.
A guide to configuring options for PowerShell Scheduled Jobs, covering defaults, hash tables, and updating settings.
A guide to using C-Reduce, a tool for automatically reducing complex C programs to minimal test cases to isolate bugs.
A technical guide explaining the Terraform cidrsubnet() function for subnet calculation, with examples and use cases.
Announcing pre-release Vagrant boxes for Fedora Scientific, making it easier to run this scientific computing environment in a virtual machine.
A PowerShell script to automatically select and tweet a random blog post from an RSS feed archive.
A technical guide on setting up remote debugging for Node.js applications deployed on Azure App Service (Linux) using WebStorm and SSH tunneling.
Introducing koio, a lightweight tool for embedding files into C programs, enabling static bundling of assets like markup and images.
A Firefox security engineer investigates exploit mitigations like Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG) and its feasibility for macOS, focusing on dynamic code generation restrictions.
Explores JavaScript decorators for writing cleaner, more efficient code with examples in React and Angular.
A visual guide explaining Evolution Strategies (ES) as a gradient-free optimization alternative to reinforcement learning for training neural networks.
An introductory guide to the fundamental concepts of object detection, covering image gradients, HOG, and segmentation, as a precursor to deep learning methods.
A developer shares a story about patience in open source, detailing a 7-month-old pull request to improve documentation for the freeboard dashboard project.
Author's schedule and list of Apache Kafka talks at Oracle OpenWorld and Oak Table World 2017 conferences.
