2015–2016 archive

The historic VirtEngine blog

The original articles are preserved verbatim in their original order. Commands, dependencies, links, product names, and security practices may now be obsolete.

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Shelves in a library, looking up through the stacks.
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Server racks in a provider data centre.
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Dockers! are you ready?

Docker Docker Docker! what the heck..? Let us consider a scenario where you are planning to deploy an application or service. Now, to deploy an application, the most sensible thing to do…

A hand writing in a ledger — metered usage being settled.
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Playing with configuration in Go lang

Application configuration A config file is a reasonable way to maintain different environments such as development and production. For most applications configuration includes logging lev…

Hands holding a document during a verification step.
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Concurrency in Go!

What is concurrency? Execution of multiple processes independantly and they may or may not be getting executed at the same time. Imagine a webserver gets multiple smaller requests and the…

Shelves in a library, looking up through the stacks.
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Ceph in a single node cluster

Ceph is one of the most interesting distributed storage systems available, with a very active development and a complete set of features that make it a valuable candidate for cloud storag…