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cgb_
12y ago
FWIW, I've been using linux on desktop/laptops for 16 years, and for last 1 1/2 years, I've been running Linux (Fedora, awesomewm) on VMware Fusion, on OSX, on a Macbook Air 2013 (June), and it's the smoothest Lin
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Agree, and it's an opportunity for the candidate to demonstration their knowledge on whatever level they think is appropriate. Interviewing is not about just showing you know x, y, z, it's largely a demonstration of your ability
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12y ago
Wow this is the coolest thing I've seen in the terminal since I discovered a sparkline bash script. I've embarrassingly used gnuplot's ascii output to realtime chart Cisco network interfaces in a shell I'm writing, this
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12y ago
One of the things I've found interesting about rapidly popular opensource solutions in the last 1-2 years is how quickly venture cap funding comes in and drives the direction of future development. Docker has a whole ecosystem of bolt-
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cgb_
12y ago
Docker has a lot of rough edges and it's most useful in large scale-out deployments. In-band devops tools like Chef and Ansible are relatively agnostic to the hypervisor or container solution, so if you only need a few OS instances &a
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But also to be fair, OpenVZ introduced VSwap ( http://wiki.openvz.org/VSwap ) to address some of the confusion that occurred under the previous resource management solution. User bean counters was notoriously hard to compreh
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What happens is you'd rearchitect (if needed) your stack so that it scales across N-nodes (for each tier). Then docker build files & snapshotting features allow you to 'recompose' the image from a base OS, one step of wh