Published on: 2025-06-27 15:17:32
HP announced back in June that end-of-support for OpenVMS will be 2020. I've been compiling this blog post since then. I have very fond memories of VAX/VMS... I used one to store my pillow for two years. Funny story. I learned a lot of life lessons from VMS. Originally this was one big 'ol blog post but I decided to break it up so the post wasn't so long. These posts are just a collection of funny VAX/VMS stories from my youth. I really believe that I learned the most in my career from my few ye
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-28 03:45:29
Building Burstables: cpu slicing with cgroups Maciek Sarnowicz Contributor Ubicloud is an open source alternative to AWS. You can self-host our software or use our managed service to reduce your cloud costs by 3x. Some of our customers told us that the price of dedicated VMs was too steep and asked for a lower entry point. We looked into it and came up with burstable VMs. These VMs run on a fraction of a shared CPU and burst to a higher level of CPU usage to support occasional spikes in us
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-27 00:08:32
This is a long overdue post on iximiuz Labs' internal kitchen. It'll cover why I decided to build my own learning-by-doing platform for DevOps, SRE, and Platform engineers, how I designed it, what technology stack chose, and how various components of the platform were implemented. It'll also touch on some of the trade-offs that I had to make along the way and highlight the most interesting parts of the platform's architecture. In the end, I'll, of course, share my thoughts on what's next on the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-12 09:11:09
Published: 17-03-2025 20:33 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article As of the 18th of February, OpenVMS, known for its stability and high-availability, 47 years old and ported to 4 different CPU architecture, has a package manager! This article shows you how to use the package manager and talks about a few of its quirks. It's an early beta version, and you do notice that when using it. A small list of things I noticed, coming from a Linux (apt/yum/dnf) background: There seem
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