2017
Code
The famous spelling mistake in the HTTP/1.0 specification, Referer
instead of Referrer is blamed on the UNIX spell checker not having
neither of them in its dictionary at the time they wrote the
RFC. Check out this nugget from 1995:
Re: Referer: (sic) from Roy T. Fielding on 1995-03-10 (ietf-http-wg-old@w3.org from January to April 1995)
/dev/lawyer Open Source License Business Perception Report
Linux & Unix
What is virtual memory? - Gary explains - Android Authority
SELinux Concepts - but for humans – LearntEmail
Do we really need swap on modern systems?
A tcpdump Tutorial and Primer with Examples
Index of /cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware
Servers can run out of entropy (randomness needed to complete various
tasks such as JAR signing, SSL connections), one way to mitigate this
is to install haveged:
haveged - downloads
Containers
Docker provides a great developer experience but it leaves many things to be decided when it comes to taking it into production: Federacy
Really interesting to see what's moving in the container world. RedHat is really shaking things up in the Docker world: DevConf 2017 - Day 1 10:30 -11:30 am - Containers in Production - YouTube
Containers and docker | Consolia Comics
Interesting read on containers and challenges of sharing a kernel in spite of namespace & cgroups: Sysdig | Container isolation gone wrong
Reverse proxies
Finally got around to upgrade from Varnish 3 to 4. The folks at Varnish Software have been so nice to provide an upgrade guide which, albeit not a complete guide, is a good starting point: Upgrading to Varnish 4 — Varnish version 4.0.4 documentation
