Deep Dive: Rebasing vs. Backporting

Background Impetus Recently, I saw a discussion was started, asking about the importance of the operating system on the LinkedIn OpenStack group: Ubuntu can overtake Red Hat in private clouds because the OS doesn’t really matter I found the conversation wildly interesting because several people expressed reasons for why they think the operating system does

RHEL7 Release Notes Highlights

I just finished going through the release notes for RHEL7 Release Candidate and Technical Notes… Features Fast Block Devices Caching Slower Block Devices Systemd controls cgroups Hardware Event Reporting Mechanism (HERM) RAS Daemon: Unifies all error data & reporting Live migration of a guest from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 host to the Red

Open Source vs. Proprietary Software in the Supply Chain

Background Open Source Software Proprietary Software have very different supply chain mechanics. Programmers, Architects, and Systems Administrators need to understand the long term impact of leveraging Open Source software versus Proprietary Software. For as long as I have been programming, it has been common for programmers to leverage libraries of code. Historically, these libraries were

A Practical Introduction to Docker Containers

Background Why Docker has quite an amount of buzz around it today because it makes so many things easy that were difficult with virtual machines. Docker containers makes it easy for Developers, Systems Administrators, Architects, Consultants and others to quickly test a piece of software in a container; much quicker than a virtual machine, and

Michigan Red Hat Enterprise User Group (May 8th)

Are you a programmer, architect, or systems administrator that leverages Open Source, Red Hat technology in a business critical environment? Do you wish that you could go to Red Hat Summit, but can’t find budget for travel? Then, this local user group is for you.

DevNation 2014: San Francisco: Resiliant Messaging AMQ

DevNation 2014: San Francisco: Resiliant Messaging AMQ

This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.