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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech

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​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 Souce" 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!!

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"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

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​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 the post mortem was available shortly after resolution. Great stuff

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​Incredible combustible engine advancement - Liquid Piston​

Hi, I'm Brian, and I'm a gear head. I actually really 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 this time. 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 amazing power to weight ratio this 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?

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​DataReportPortal​

I have been deep diving online market research the last couple weeks. I found this great resource providing 100's of open source data reports about what users are doing online. This is amazing information and extremely granular as well. Give it a try if you need to find out how your users are using Web, mobile, or social media. Again this is all open source which blows my mind.

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​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 release are hitting warp speed.

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…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!

I’m Brian Christner, Docker Captain, Traefik Ambassador, and DevOps engineer. If you’ve enjoyed reading this, tell your friends to sign up for theByte newsletter or post a link in your company Slack.

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-Brian

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