Interesting Snippets from 2021-09-29

• GitHub - benbjohnson/litestream: Streaming replication for SQLite.

  Litestream is a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite. It runs as a background process and safely replicates changes incrementally to another file or S3. Litestream only communicates with SQLite through the SQLite API so it will not corrupt your database.

• Litestream - Streaming SQLite Replication

  Stop building slow, complex, fragile software systems. Safely run your application on a single server. Fully-replicated database with no pain and little cost.

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Interesting Snippets from 2021-09-23

• Why you should take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes :: Adrian Todorov

  Hashicorp’s Nomad is a simple to run and maintain, yet very flexible task scheduler/orchestrator. It relies on plugins for execution, autoscaling and other features, and can run pretty much anything via its task drivers - Docker, contairnerd, LXC, rkt, podman, Java, fork/exec, QEMU, firecracker, FreeBSD jails.

• A better Kubernetes, from the ground up · blog.dave.tf

  My experience of Kubernetes comes from two very different places: authoring MetalLB for bare metal clusters, and operating a large fleet of clusters-as-a-service in GKE SRE. Both of these taught me that Kubernetes is extremely complex, and that most people who are trying to use it are not prepared for the sheer amount of work that lies between the marketing brochure and the system those brochures promise.

• GitHub - DIYgod/RSSHub: 🍰 Everything is RSSible

  RSSHub is an open source, easy to use, and extensible RSS feed generator. It's capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything.

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Interesting Snippets from 2021-09-19

• IP to ASN mapping - Team Cymru

  The DNS daemon is designed for rapid reverse lookups, much in the same way as RBL lookups are done. DNS has the added advantage of being cacheable and based on UDP so there is much less overhead.

• Diagnostic Tool: Link and Instructions – OpenDNS

  To provide diagnostic information for a Linux/Unix machine, please run the following commands and provide the results in your reply to the support ticket.

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Interesting Snippets from 2021-09-18

• Shell startup scripts

  I’ve read the man pages for you, and drawn a pretty diagram. To read it, pick your shell, whether it's a login shell, whether it's interactive, and follow the same colour through the diagram. When the arrows split out to multiple files, it means that the shell will try to read each one in turn (working left to right), and will use the first one it can read.

• GitHub - lastminutedotcom/heimdall: A Cloudflare monitoring tool

  Heimdall is a scheduler application based on cron and http calls to Cloudflare's API. Setting your organizationId, Heimdall retrieve all the zones configured in you account and get the metrics to collect.

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Interesting Snippets from 2021-09-17

• Alerta monitoring system — alerta 7.5 documentation

  The alerta monitoring system is a tool used to consolidate and de-duplicate alerts from multiple sources for quick ‘at-a-glance’ visualisation. With just one system you can monitor alerts from many other monitoring tools on a single screen.

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