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24 February 2017
Debian Bug Squashing Party 2017 in the German Open Source Support Center
Debian 9 “Stretch”, the latest version of Debian, is about to be released and after a full-freeze on February 5th everyone is trying its best to fix the last bugs that are left. Upon entering the final phase of development in February the test version was “frozen” so that no more packages could be added […]
10 January 2017
Network Virtualization with VXLAN and Linux
VXLAN stands for “Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network”. Standardized in RFC 7348 in August 2014, VXLAN is also available today as a virtual network interface in current Linux kernels. But what is VXLAN? What is VXLAN? When one reads the keywords “Virtual” and “LAN”, most rightly think of VLAN. Here, a large physical network is […]
06 December 2016
[Howto] Centralized and Semantic Logging for PostgreSQL®
Introduction Today, there is no need to argue why centralized logging is useful or even necessary. Most medium-sized companies now have centralized logging or are currently implementing it. Once the infrastructure is in place, it is important to use it effectively and efficiently! Especially as an infrastructure operator or service provider, the goal is to […]
15 June 2016
Quality Assurance in PostgreSQL® with SQLsmith
An interesting tool for quality assurance of C compilers is Csmith, a generator of random C programs. I had come to appreciate it during the development of an optimization phase for a C compiler. This compiler features extensive regression tests, and the correctness of the translated programs is also tested using standardized benchmarks. The latter, […]
02 December 2015
Official Debian images for Microsoft Azure now available
The free Linux distribution Debian is now available as a supported distribution in the Azure Marketplace. In collaboration with Microsoft, credativ will also take over the ongoing maintenance of the Debian images. The Debian images created by credativ are now available for Debian 8 (Jessie) and Debian 7 (Wheezy). Further information is available on Microsoft’s […]