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Open Source Networking: Disruptive Innovation Ready for Prime Time

Innovations are much more interesting than inventions.  The “laser” is a classic invention and “FedEx” is a classic innovation.  Successful innovation disrupts entire industries...

Of Pies and Platforms: Platform-as-a-Service vs. Containers-as-a-Service

I’m often asked about the difference between using a platform as a service (PaaS) vs. a containers-as-a-service (CaaS) approach to developing cloud applications. When does it makes sense...

An Introduction to Regular Expressions for New Linux Users

Regular expressions are a powerful means for pattern matching and string parsing that can be applied in so many instances. With this incredible tool...

An Overview of Open Standards for IoT Communication Protocols

In its simplest terms, an IoT solution is a collection of sensors combined with a centralized management application permitting the user to modify the...

Docker’s Tops for DevOps, AWS Is the Cloud King

RightScale's 'State of the Cloud' survey also shows hybrid cloud beating public-only and private-only clouds, and Microsoft Azure making major inroads. If there's one devops...

Optimizing Graphics Memory Bandwidth with Compression and Tiling: Notes on DRM Format Modifiers

Written by Varad Gautam, Consultant Associate Software Engineer at Collabora. Over the past few weeks, I have been working for Collabora on plumbing DRM format...

How to Install pandom: A True Random Number Generator for Linux

This tutorial explains how to install pandom: a timing jitter true random number generator maintained by ncomputers.org. The built-in Linux kernel true random number...

3 Good Command-Line Audio and Graphics Apps for Linux

It is often faster to use command-line apps to play audio files and preview images than to futz around launching and using a graphical...

Control Plane Engineering Is Key for Big Kubernetes Deployments

If you’re interested in running a complex Kubernetes system across several different cloud environments, you should check out what Bob Wise and his team...

PHP vs. Node.js: An Epic Battle for Developer Mind Share

...PHP and JavaScript, two partners who once ruled the internet together but now duke it out for the mind share of developers. In the old...