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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Package Upgrading in Trusty

Upgrading is new versioning of an existing model that add or modify the modules of an already defined package. Here we upgrading the Ubuntu Trusty to a newer version. Upgrading “fpm” is u…

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Chef vs Urknall

An Introduction to Urknall Urknall is Go based automation provising tools for the administration of complex infrastructure developed in Golang. Agentless tool that only relies on common U…

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Getting more native, welcome scyllaDB

Is it not an uncommon fact that cassandra is the defacto NoSQL database that is being used in the bigdata world at the moment. It is known for its ease and performance, and the constant p…

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Getting started with spark-jobserver

Spark-jobserver is a really cool RESTful interface for submitting and managing Apache Spark jobs, jars, and job contexts. At megam our analytics platform Meglytics is powered by apache sp…