In my on-call duty for the last few years. One thing that comes, again and again, is log cleanup. This happens because of the wrong logrotate or no use of this at all. When we talk about disk cleanup, this is kind of toil to me. To understand what is toil you can look at
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DevOps and SRE interview: What you need to learn in Linux?
When we talk about DevOps and system admins, Linux is the first thing that comes to mind. But Linux itself is so vast that it’s really confusing what all you should be aware of if you are planning to go for an interview. In this article, we will try to define what are the most
Questions and answers related to SRE and DevOps preparation
In recent times, I have talked to a lot of people and have seen a few questions again and again on how to progress in this field. In this article, we are going to see these questions and what I think their answers are. These are my personal views. What should I learn to shift
Difference between minor page faults vs major page faults
We have seen about page faults in few of the previous articles. In this article we will be looking at two different kind of page faults that can happen. So lets have a look at major and minor page faults. TLDR – Minor page faults occurs when the page is present in the memory but
Swap memory and how it affects your latencies.
When you work with Linux and memory you must have heard the term swap memory. In this article, we are going to see how swap memory affects the latencies of your system, and should you keep them or not? What is a swap memory? It is a memory space that is made available separately to
What is a page fault and why you should be aware of it?
The operating system has many mechanisms to operate on memory and using it in a proper way, one of them is page faults. In this article, we will look at what is a page fault and you should keep a track of it properly. What is a page fault? A page fault is an exception
What are a honeypot server and its uses?
Every one of you must be aware of the term hacking and on the web, domain hackers have to make malicious requests to take down the servers. There are many kinds of attacks that they try to perform and these honeypot servers are ways to analyze their attack patterns. What is a honeypot server? Honeypot
What should you learn in DevOps and SRE for long term prospect?
I get a lot of questions regarding what should one learn to progress in a career or start a career in this domain. In this article we will talk about what you should learn for a long-term perspective in this field. Linux Yes, this is very important and is still evolving. Keeping a good grip
Points to mind while debugging production issues.
It’s always hectic to debug production issues and it is always wise to have a predefined step to debug any issues. But there can be scenarios where those steps may not work. In those scenarios also you should always have a flow in mind what to check. In this article, we are going to see
ngrok: Serve website from local system.
It is not an easy task to host a website and then do all the necessary tasks to keep it safe and secure. Now if you building something and for that, you have to give a demo and strict on timelines. Setting up the website and other tasks will consume a lot of time. If