Linux is my primary operating system. I used it on the servers, desktops, laptops, netbooks, and even mobile phones since approximately 1997. I’ve tried a number of distributions over the years, and even created a couple myself. I still look around sometimes to see what others are up to. But most of my machines are running some sort of Red Hat – either a quick and easy Fedora Linux, or a stable and secure Red Hat Enterprise Server, or a cheaper CentOS alternative.
And while by now I am very comfortable in the Linux environment (both graphical and command line), I still discover a lot of new and interesting things about it. When I come across something worthy, I usually share it with the rest of the Open Software world, using this category.
Awesome git addons is yet another one of those curated awesome lists. This time it’s for git version control tool. And once again, it’s mind blowing.
Git itself is a very flexible and powerful tool. But it truly amazing how far some people take it. In the list you can find anything from aliases for complex commands, to full-featured integrations with GitHub, git flow process, deployment tools, and much more.
Shlomi Noach, GitHub’s Senior Infrastructure Engineer, shares some details on both the current and future high availability setup of MySQL databases at GitHub.
This is probably way too far out for most people using MySQL for their web applications. But it does highlight the technical complexity of running high load web applications, and how some of the issues can be solved or worked around.
Pretty fascinating stuff there …
RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager, written in Goland. It sounds like an excellent replacement for the built-in PHP server, and even more than that – it’s production-ready. And it works on Windows too.
RoadRunner is an open source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.
RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.
sr.ht – pronounced “sir hat” – is a new competitor in the world of GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab. Much like all of these, you can either self-hosted it or use a managed service. It might not yet be as fancy, polished, and cool (I think they need a better name and the domain) as its competitors, but there are a couple of reasons that might make a difference when making a choice:
Rob Pike talks about the history of Unix and his quite remarkable career. And here’s my favorite quote from the video, referring to “The Unix Programming Environment” book:
It is amazing to me that the book that came out in the late 1983 is still technically relevant today. It’s insane!