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Start monitoring your Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus and Grafana

opensource.com - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 15:02

In my introductory article about chaos engineering, one of the main things I covered was the importance of getting the steady state of your working Kubernetes cluster. Before you can start causing chaos, you need to know what the cluster looks like in a steady state.


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Get started with FreeDOS

opensource.com - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 15:00

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, I was primarily a DOS user. I loved the command line environment offered in DOS, which became more powerful with each successive release. I even learned how to write my own DOS programs in the C programming language so I could extend the DOS command line, and write more powerful replacements for the standard DOS commands. I'd experimented with Microsoft's Windows—but if you remember Windows 3 from that time, you know it was slow and tended to crash. But I preferred the command line anyway, so I stuck to DOS.


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Get started with Java serverless functions

opensource.com - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 15:00

The serverless Java journey started out with functions—small snippets of code running on demand. This phase didn't last long. Although functions based on virtual machine architecture in the 1.0 phase made this paradigm very popular, as the graphic below shows, there were limits around execution time, protocols, and poor local-development experience.


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How to Install AlmaLinux 8.4 Step by Step

Tecmint - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 14:26
The post How to Install AlmaLinux 8.4 Step by Step first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As CentOS 8 draws steadily to End of Life on December 31st, 2021, efforts have been made to come up with centos alternative distributions which will fill in the big shoes left by CentOS

The post How to Install AlmaLinux 8.4 Step by Step first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Building a more secure, composable AI-powered infrastructure with Red Hat and NVIDIA

Red Hat News - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 12:00

Modern data centers and IT environments need enhanced threat detection and policy management across bare metal and Kubernetes deployments. This is why Red Hat announced our plans to support NVIDIA BlueField DPUs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift.

AMD Announces New Zen 3 Desktop APUs, FidelityFX Super Resolution + More

Phoronix - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 11:00
For being a virtual event, AMD's keynote for Computex Taipei 2021 is filled with quite a bit of excitement and multiple product announcements. Here are the highlights for AMD's new announcements at Computex 2021.

Experimental RADV Code Allows Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Older AMD GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/01/2021 - 02:14
AMD currently just supports Vulkan ray-tracing with their Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards while now there is independent work being done on Mesa's unofficial Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) to allow ray-tracing to work with older generations of GPUs like Vega and Polaris...

Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week

Phoronix - Mon, 05/31/2021 - 22:26
This week on 5 June marks 17 years since starting Phoronix.com for Linux hardware reviews and also 13 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for advancing open-source/Linux benchmarking...

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