More than enough to keep you busy over the holidays

[Joe Topjian]

If you haven't heard of DevOps Weekly, I highly recommend subscribing to it. That and Github's Explore Email are how I learn about most new sysadmin and devops stuff.

Though most DevOps Weekly newsletters will have one or two links of interest, there's occasionally a week where it's crammed with interesting stuff. This was one of those weeks. Even better (or worse depending on how much free time you have), these links all have numerous sub-items to check out:

Tech Advent calendars have been popular for a number of years now, starting with (I think) Perl back in 2000. These calendars feature a daily article between December 1st and 25th.

The sysadvent calendar has been increasing in popularity over the past few years.

There's also the AWS advent calendar, though I find it a bit difficult to navigate.

Here's a slide deck on Mesos, Docker, and Kubernetes. I liked how it gave a balanced view of each technology, though still managed to be optimistic about them all.

Sysadmin Casts has a number of short podcasts on various sysadmin topics.

Netflix has released a new tool called Atlas that handles time-series data.

And this item was not found in DevOps weekly, but still interesting nonetheless:

Canonical announced Ubuntu Core: a minimal, read-only Ubuntu distribution that installs applications through image-based transactions.

Happy reading and happy holidays!

Joe

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Joe Topjian

Systems Architect

Cybera Inc.

www.cybera.ca

Cybera is a not-for-profit organization that works to spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use of cyberinfrastructure.