Sandboxed Vs. Vanilla Runtimes
If you are curious how sandboxed containers look like from the inside compared to normal containers, this thread will be covering the basics. {{<audio...
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Katacontainers
A detailed overview of Kata Containers architecture end-to-end. <iframe width="1000" height="552.6999059266228" data-original-width="2126"...
Retrospecting Donald Knuth's Interview (My advice to young people) - A Personal Take
I recently watched an interesting interview from one of the best minds in computer science, Donald Knuth, author of the six-volume series "The Art of Computer...
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To CRI or not to CRI: A Tale of a Lonely Sandbox
Recently I have been trying to wrap my head around what has been happening in the kubernetes runtime space, doing so made me realize that alot has happened and...
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Docktorino: Building Containers with Confidence
Docktorino is a real-time continious testing tool for your docker builds, helping you containerize with confidence! When building Docker images it is sometimes...
Dockument blog post
DOCKument: Auto-generating Documentation for Dockerfiles and Images
DOCKument is a tool that helps you auto-generate documentation for your Dockerfiles and Docker images the way you would an API. Matthias Lübken gave an example...
github repo for DOCKument
this Dockerfile by luebken
Kubernetes How-Tos
Kubernetes has been taking over the container orchesteration stage for sometime now, it has a large community and a great set of tooling and contributers...
eBPF, Microservices, Docker, and Cilium: From Novice to Seasoned
In this post we will be covering eBPF concepts, as well as challenges faced when applying network policies for microservices and how these challenges can be...
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definition of microservices
how you can decompose a monoltih into microservices
The Super-Human Project: Distance-Sense
Alright, so recently I decided to use sensor for different applications. Sensors are a great way to hear, see, and even feel things that we as humans can't see...
Demystifying Moby: From OCI to Linuxkit
OCI, Containerd, runC, Moby, linuxkit are all relatively new components that work together for building containers. In this post we will explain each component...
Containerd to Control runc
Docker Musings
As you might know already Docker is now the defacto standard for containers. It is being used as the run-time for many clustering frameworks. Therefore, I...
GoSayan: Become an expert in Golang in your freetime
I have received many questions about a new project that I have created called GoSayan, so I decided to write a blog post about it. Needless to say that GoSayan...
Go Recipes For the Lost
Welcome to "Go Recipes For the Lost" post, this is a live post, it won't ever be done as long as I am writing go code. The intention here is to share with you...
Stephen Weinberg's answer on stackoverflow
Patterns for Microservices Decomposition
Microservices are decoupled components that follows the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), that is, a component does one thing but does it really well. In...
Communication patterns in a Microservice world
Micro-service communication bla-bla
Microservices bla bla pdf
Protobuf as an alternative to REST
The 7 deadly-sins of Microservices
The split-image approach to building minimal runtime Docker images
Microservices in a nutshell
In this post we will walk through the definitions, Properties and patterns for building Microservices. A microservice is really just a service that adheres to...
Kubernetes Kubeadm with Flannel Up & Running
Okay, so I am going to try and make this brief and to the point for you to get going. You need a Kubernetes cluster working with Kubeadm? good you are in the...
Copy the content of this yaml file
Neutron-SFC: A Sneak-Peak
In today's virtual network architecture, NFV is paving the way to become to defacto standard for providing network services in the cloud. NFV relies on Service...
The Software-Defined Stack | EII OpenStack Networking
In this post, we are going take a quick look at how OpenStack does networking, along the process we are going to mention the important agents involved. <ul...
SSH Configuration: The Easy Way
So having problems using SSH to log into your servers? don't fret, I am writing this to make your life easier. There are two ways to use SSH, one using...
The Software-Defiend Stack | EI
Welcome to the Software-Define Stack Series, this will be an extensive series, exploring the software-defined aspects behind OpenStack and digging deeper into...
CloudArray: A Seamless Portal to the Cloud
The formal definition for CloudArray is: “EMC-Cloud Array is a data storage software technology that easily integrates cloud (object) storage into traditional...
VMware vRealize Automation Capsule
Okay, so recently I have had the chance to play around with vRealize Automation (vRA). Therefore, I am using this chance to share with you the outcomes of this...
Check out vRA Custom Properties
vRA Documentation (Feast yer Eyes)
NSX: A Morning Capsule
I have recently had the chance to do some reading on VMware NSX. I come from a networking background Intertwined with software, previously I have had a chance...
ACI Policy-based SDN: A Morning Capsule
IT Manager, Ops, and network administrators suffer today from the complex approaches being followed towards network operations which gives no space for...
Virtualization: A Painless Introduction
Recently any technologies started making use of virtualization, therefore, it is important to be familiar with the underlying concepts. In this article, the...
Virtualization: A Painless Introduction
Recently any technologies started making use of virtualization, therefore, it is important to be familiar with the underlying concepts. In this article, the...
PreSDN: Ethane and Clean Slate 4D Approach
The IP network was a network that was designed to be best effort, and wasn’t designed to support complex functionalities such as address translation, tunneling...
SDN Approaches: The Map you are Looking For!
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a concept that rooted back to the last decade, yet only flourished nowadays. SDN started by a proof of concept and ended...
An SDN OpenFlow Boil Down
Current networking architectures are quite different from the Original Internet as we know it, they are hungry for services and applications that can’t be...
SDN: A Walkthrough
Current networking architectures are quite different from the Original Internet as we know it, they are hungry for services and applications that can’t be...
SDN: The Evolution that Led to the Revolution
To understand SDN, it is recommended to understand the stack of technologies the led to it. This presentation (the first quick presentation I did on SDN)...
Streaming a Video File on Android
Well, I have been through multiple forums looking for the best way that works for me to play a streamed video file from a server or from my local machine, and...
Why Learn a Functional Programming Language
Okay, I have to admit I wasn’t a big fan of functional programming languages, but looking at the benefits that it introduces, it might not be a very bad idea...
Getting Back to C++ | Public, Private, and Protected (PPP)
I have been away for a while now but every time I think I won’t need to lay a hand on C++ or any object oriented programming language I find my self mandated...
Wireless Hacking & Security
If you are a wirless kinda guy, you might be interested in having a look at this quick presentation. This presentation will give you an idea about: - WEP...
L3 Routing vs. L3 Switching vs. Multi-layer Switching
Okay, the difference between a layer 3 router, switch and a multilayer switch seems to confuse alot of networkers, so I decided to write this to briefly...
Anatomy of a MAC Address, BPDU, BID, and 802.1Q Ethernet Frame Tag
As a network engineer you must have skimmed through millions of acronyms and abbreviations like MAC, IP, FTP, ..... and so on, they are un-countable :D....
VoIP Vs. IP Telephony
"IP telephony is the Concept, VoIP is the Use" I believe this quote can serves as an answer to the Big Question, but what does this really mean ?. To answer...
How to Find My Linux Release & Version
Also this might be very easy to do, I always seem to forget it =D. Anyway, here is how: you just type on your terminal. That’s it =). I hope this helps, Have...
How to Play .wmv Files on Linux
Okayy, So I spent some time trying to get ubuntu to play out .wmv files, it took me a little while to figure that out. Here is how: - First you need to...
Recovering Passwords For Cisco Routers
Here are the brief steps of how to recover passwords on Your Cisco Router: 1. Type show version to check on the current value of the configuration register....
Okay, You Know About Subnetting, But Why Do It?
Long time I had this question in my head, why do we subnet, yea I am being a smart guy, I am very good at sub-netting but I didn’t know why it is so...
How to Get A MAP API Key for Android
Steps to get your MAP API key for Android development using MD5 fingerprints.
How to Setup & Use Minicom on Linux
Some people are windows oriented, others are linux oriented. Well I consider my self more of a windows user (I am not proud of that xD) so I decided to give...
Adding a view within your ListActivity
I spent some time trying to find out how to put other views in the same place with a ListActivity and I figured out 2 different ways : First, you can create a...
Changing the Background Colour or Image of a ListActivity
I was stuck for like three hours trying to figure out how to change the background of a ListActivity because I have used an adapter with a layout for each item...
How to Change the Color of an image when Clicked in Android ?
In advanced mobile applications or normal ones , a developer should communicate with the user using some feed backs so changing the color of an image or label...
Cloud Computing & LTE
I have been thinking for a while, what would it be like in 3 or 4 years ahead, and I started noticing that everybody is starting to love the “Cloud”, I won’t...
How to be a Networker?
Well, Lets say that most of the People have wrong concept of Who is A network Engineer and whose not,in Order to Clarify this Vague concept among people and...