The article "Linux LKM Persistence" explores advanced techniques for maintaining persistence on Linux systems using loadable kernel modules (LKMs). It delves into the methods of loading malicious kernel modules at boot time, focusing on the use of the systemd-modules-load service to install and hide a rootkit

https://righteousit.com/2024/11/18/linux-lkm-persistence/

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The article "Using Tracetest with OpenTelemetry for Trace-based Testing" explores the concept of trace-based testing in distributed systems and introduces tools to implement this approach. It delves into the basics of distributed tracing, compares it with traditional logging methods, and demonstrates how to use OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Tracetest for creating and running trace-based tests.

https://tracetest.io/blog/trace-based-testing-with-opentelemetry-using-tracetest-with-opentelemetry

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A Helm plugin that uses Common Expression Language (CEL) to validate values. Instead of using JSON Schema in values.schema.json, you can write more expressive validation rules using CEL in values.cel.yaml.

https://github.com/idsulik/helm-cel

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Kyanos is an ebpf based networking analysis tool. It can visualize the time packets spend in the kernel, analyze requests/responses in command line, suppport various L7 protocols like HTTP/Redis/MySQL.

https://github.com/hengyoush/kyanos

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The article details Timescale's journey to optimize upsert performance on compressed hypertables in TimescaleDB, a PostgreSQL extension. It describes how the team addressed a customer's challenge with suboptimal upsert performance, ultimately achieving a 300x speed improvement by leveraging existing indexes for efficient conflict resolution during upserts on high-cardinality datasets.

https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-postgresql-upserts-300x-faster-on-compressed-data

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The article discusses setting up a self-hosted full-stack observability system for startups using open-source tools, emphasizing the importance of monitoring system performance as businesses scale. It outlines key components and tools like OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Prometheus, and Grafana to achieve comprehensive system visibility without incurring high SaaS costs

https://osuite.io/articles/full-stack-observability-self-hosted

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The Grammar Checker for Developers

https://github.com/Automattic/harper

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Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS.

https://github.com/MightyMoud/sidekick

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The authro explores the emerging trend of AI agents in the observability and monitoring space, discussing how these agents could potentially revolutionize the way operational data is processed and utilized. It highlights various startups developing AI-powered solutions for DevOps, incident response, and SRE tasks, while also addressing potential challenges such as data privacy concerns and the need for benchmarking to evaluate agent effectiveness.

https://monitoring2.substack.com/p/ai-agents-invade-observability

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List of changes announced for AWS that may break existing code

https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes

The article compares the performance characteristics of Classic and Quorum queues in RabbitMQ, highlighting their strengths and use cases. It presents benchmark results showing that Classic queues offer higher throughput and lower latency, making them suitable for high-performance applications, while Quorum queues provide better fault tolerance and durability at the cost of reduced performance, making them ideal for mission-critical systems requiring high availabilitys

https://dzone.com/articles/battle-of-the-rabbitmq-queues-performance-insights

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🐸 a database management tui for postgres

https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog

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Podman desktop companion

https://github.com/iongion/container-desktop

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Slack's engineering team details their journey in evolving their Chef infrastructure to manage tens of thousands of EC2 instances efficiently. The article explores the challenges faced and solutions implemented as they transitioned from a single Chef stack to a sharded infrastructure, improving reliability and deployment safety for their vast and growing infrastructure.
https://slack.engineering/advancing-our-chef-infrastructure/

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The blogpost discusses the creation of SREBench, a Kubernetes task dataset designed to evaluate LLM performance in root cause analysis of Kubernetes issues. It details the challenges faced by the Parity team in developing a reliable benchmark for their AI agent, ultimately leading to the creation of a synthetic dataset inspired by the MuSR murder mystery reasoning benchmark

https://www.tryparity.com/blog/how-and-why-we-made-srebench-swebench-for-k8s

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Open source ngrok alternative designed for teams. Tunnel http, tcp or websocket connections.

https://github.com/amalshaji/portr

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Workspace and session management TUI for terminal environments

https://github.com/GianlucaP106/mynav

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Discord embarked on a six-month project to reduce bandwidth usage for their clients, particularly on iOS and Android, aiming to create a more responsive experience. The initiative focused on improving the "gateway" service, which provides real-time updates to clients, by transitioning from zlib compression to zstandard, which offers higher compression ratios, faster compression times, and support for dictionaries[

https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-reduced-websocket-traffic-by-40-percent

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The article discusses a critical incident involving Postgres indexing at a high-volume database with billions of rows. It highlights the potential pitfalls of concurrent indexing, which can fail silently and lead to performance issues. The author shares best practices for Postgres indexing, including using the CONCURRENTLY flag, monitoring index creation, validating indexes manually, and properly handling partitioned tables.

https://blog.bemi.io/indexing/