Rocky Linux replaces CentOS 👀

​Rocky Linux set to replace CentOS​

This is why I love Open Source. Last week, Red Hat, you know the ones that promote being the "Open Source" company, discontinued CentOS, forcing people to go to their Enterprise Linux version. The announcement didn't go down well in the community. This week, the original Co-Founder of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, steps up to reignite CentOS named Rocky. Rocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux created in response to the effective discontinuation of CentOS. Open Source rocks!!

"Thinking back to early CentOS days... My cofounder was Rocky McGaugh. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you...Rocky Linux"​
— Gregory Kurtzer, Founder

​Google Down - Even Google runs out of disk space​

Google has literarily written the book on SRE (Free SRE books here). The great thing about Google incidents is their great post-mortem culture. Have a read of the public post-mortem. I would love to see the internal version as well since Googlers are tweeting that the post-mortem was available shortly after resolution. Great stuff!

​Incredible combustible engine advancement - Liquid Piston​

Hi, I'm Brian, and I'm a gearhead. I enjoy twisting wrenches on engines and different things. I've worked on engines since I was young, but the internals of engines have not changed much since then. Most changes happen with the electronics or outside the engine. Well, Liquid Piston, a startup building a next-gen engine with only TWO moving parts and with an excellent power-to-weight ratio, is a game changer with a 1.5 horsepower per pound output. The Liquid piston team replaced a go-kart engine, which weighed 40lbs(18kg) @6.5 hp, with the Liquid engine weighing 4.5lbs (2kg) @ 3.5 hp. This is mind-blowing. Oh, did I mention it will run on any fuel you put in it?

​Data Report Portal​

I have been deep-diving into online market research for the last few weeks. This excellent resource provides 100s of open-source data reports about what users do online. This is fantastic information and highly granular as well. Give it a try if you need to find out how your users use the Web, mobile, or social media. Again, this is all open source, which blows my mind.

If you were under a rock last week AWS re-Invent took place. Here's a recap​

From Cloud shell to managed Prometheus and Grafana services, it was another feature bonanza. Can anyone really keep up with the speed at which AWS releases new services/features? I hope internally they can cope, as feature releases are hitting warp speed.

…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!

-Brian

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