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How to be the right person for DevOps

opensource.com - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 15:03

In my kitchen, we have a sign that reads "Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person." It serves as a great reminder of the individual responsibility everyone has in any healthy relationship. As organizations adopt DevOps as a model of developing and delivering value to customers, the impact of healthy relationships is extremely important for success.


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How to test failed authentication attempts with test-driven development

opensource.com - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 15:01

Testing often begins with what we hope happens. In my previous article, I demonstrated how to virtualize a service you depend on when processing the "happy path" scenario (that is, testing the outcome of a successful login attempt). But we all know that software fails in spectacular and unexpected ways. Now's the time to take a closer look into how to process the "less happy paths": what happens when someone tries to log in with the wrong credentials?


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How to upload an OpenStack disk image to Glance

opensource.com - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 15:00

Glance is an image service that allows you to discover, provide, register, or even delete disk and/or server images. It is a fundamental part of managing images on OpenStack and TripleO (which stands for "OpenStack-On-OpenStack").


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How To Configure PostgreSQL 12 Streaming Replication in CentOS 8

Tecmint - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 14:46
PostgreSQL database supports several replication solutions to build high-availability, scalable, fault-tolerant applications, one of which is Write-Ahead Log (WAL) Shipping. This solution allows for a standby server to be implemented using file-based log shipping...

Linux 5.7 Netfilter To See AVX2 Optimizations For Big Performance Boost - Can Be Up To ~420%

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 12:00
Linux 5.7's Netfilter framework is set to see better performance on modern Intel and AMD systems thanks to AVX2 optimizations...

Linux 5.6-rc6 Released With The Kernel Coming In At Just The Right Size

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 06:32
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.6-rc6 and the code metrics are looking good for this stage of the kernel cycle...

AMD Sensor Fusion Hub Driver Isn't Yet Queued For Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Mon, 03/16/2020 - 00:08
While a lot of feature work has been building up for Linux 5.7 in various subsystem development repositories ahead of the merge window in a few weeks, one of the big driver additions many users have been clamoring for isn't yet queued. The AMD Sensor Fusion Hub open-source driver for Linux appears stalled pending more reviews from upstream developers...

KDE Frameworks 5.68 Release Brought Many Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 03/15/2020 - 23:15
Flying under our radar until now was that KDE Frameworks 5.68 was released last week as the monthly update to this collection of KDE-minded libraries complementing the Qt tool-kit...

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