Vidar Hokstad explains what systemd units are and how to write them. Very useful for that day when I will stop hating systemd and will try to embrace it. Systemd has become the defacto new standard init for Linux-based systems. While not everyone has made the switch yet, pretty much all the major distros have … Continue reading Writing systemd Units
Not being religious at all, I try to avoid the subject in this blog, but I think Bible Or Qur’an website deserves a mention. Mission statement from the front page: The mission of BibleOrQuran is to educate people about the true nature and content of the Bible and Qur’an. False statements such as “81% of the … Continue reading Bible Or Qur’an
Jessie Frazelle reiterates her point on containers in the blog post “Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs“: The Design of Solaris Zones, BSD Jails, VMs and containers are very different. Solaris Zones, BSD Jails, and VMs are first class concepts. This is clear from the Solaris Zone Design Spec and the … Continue reading Containers are not a real thing!
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective is a rather old article on how gay marriage (and other types of marriages) can affect technology, but somehow I missed it for all these years. It’s interesting from a variety of perspectives – technical, social, and cultural. It’s also somewhat tongue in cheek, yet insightful and thought-provoking. Irrelevant … Continue reading Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective
I came across this article – “Dependency Management and WordPress: A Proposal“, which provides an excellent overview of some of the recent developments and discussions in the area of composer integration with WordPress, and even more generically, some of the issues around dependency management in an ecosystem as large and complex as that of WordPress. … Continue reading Dependency Management and WordPress: A Proposal