Amazon! Why? Security by Obscurity – AWS4 authentication method.

We look at the new features in the Ceph Quincy release. Talk about changes and important improvements. Looking forward to starting using this on my clusters.

In this video, we look into running rados gateway on backends other than Ceph, particularly in SQLite. This could be useful for testing workloads or running a proxy service with user management. First a good start is to upgrade / update your system so you have the latest packages. sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade…

We go through how to manually install a Ceph cluster. We will add Object storage devices and play around with Rados. Rados (Reliable autonomic distributed object storage) is a great way to store data in a secure and efficient way. Adding storage When the cluster is up and running and all monitors are in qourum…

In this video, we’ll show you how to install Promtail and Loki, two open-source log monitoring tools, to gather and monitor your logs in Ceph. We’ll also walk you through the steps of making some minor code changes to display the Grafana Explore window, allowing you to monitor your logs directly in the Ceph dashboard….

After my kid asked me to download and install an auto-clicker, I saw this as a teachable moment to build one in Java. I could talk about the different concepts Java offers and also explore a new API in the Java API. Source code: package org.ea; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.InputEvent; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import…

We talk about building the compiler we later will use to build the actual compiler used to build a linux system. Compiler inception.