Assembly: the only way

In principle there was only one: assembly machine language. Hardware and software engineer was a one-role.

The guy who was able to project a chip, was the one who was able to program it.

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Abbiamo provato Prometheus in congiunzione con Grafana.

Prometheus è un tool di monitoraggio e alerting, scritto in Go e caratterizzato da un database orientato all’archiviazione in time series.

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In 1985, all my work started with a VIC-20 with 5Kb of RAM, and only 3583 bytes free for the BASIC. With 3 more kilobytes, VIC-20 would be able to unveil its more versatile graphic capabilities, but we have no luck. In 1995 I got a 8 MegaBytes computer with 512MB hard disk as workstation for my University Exams. I was a lucky boy, and that PC helped me to graduate up to 2000.

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Docker was born for the cloud. It is the easiest way to run different software in a tiny box, installing it in a rapid way and with a nice way to wipe it in a snap. But when docker shines are the little docker compose files, which realize the Infrastructure as Code, a configuration file which declare in an easy and simple way how services are connected.

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Abbiamo già trattato il Cloud di Oracle, codename OCI, e lo riprendiamo con questo articolo.

Oracle sta cercando di rincorrere la triade Amazon, Google e Azure, e lo sta facendo in modo creativo: vediamo pro e contro.

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In my personal top ten on open source software initiative with some original sin inside them. Note: this is not a negative review, is only a snapshot of the world I see, I could be wrong, but please explain to me my mistakes, if any.

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K8s is a very complex beast. But it give you a very good set of security defaults, and it is also a very well done implementation of a microservice application.

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In this second article, I suggest to explore further two simple helm chart for getting a bit more inside K8s.

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How to reboot a k8s pod/deployment

kubectl rollout restart deployment <deployment_name> -n <namespace>

How to show helm history

helm history -n <namespace> <deployment>

My true personal opinion based on what customers asks and what co-worker uses:

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