Blogs

team
Oct
6
2022

Why we love Prometheus and Grafana

Want to know the CPU use of a container in a Kubernetes node three months from now? Want custom alerts based on thresholds or failures?

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team
Oct
6
2022

CI/CD Using Google’s Kubernetes (K8S) Engine

Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD for short) has tons of potential! WatchKelsey Hightower deliver an awesome presentation on Kubernetes via several demos during his keynote talk on the KubeCon 2017:

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team
Oct
6
2022

April 25th is World Penguin Day

Today is World Penguin Day! As our Crafty Penguins company name is obviously derived from Penguins, and particular Tux who is theLinux Mascot, we are giving these lovely birds some homage today.

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team
Oct
6
2022

Making the most of Grafana open source dashboards

I came across this recent blog post on OpenSource.com about the Top 10 Grafana Features. We too love Grafana of course (blog post).

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team
Oct
6
2022

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 1 – Hello World

Intro As a packet slinger by trade, a network admin, and also a bit of a programmer, I lately embarked on a quest for better throughput – to find a way to get more packets to pass through a rather small footprint low-cost device running a VPN tunnel.

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team
Sep
24
2022

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 3 – UDP in the kernel

Intro A part of the project I’ve been working on requires the use of a virtual network device.

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team
Sep
18
2022

Improving WordPress site performance and reliability

When it comes to a money-producing website, speed and reliability do matter. The era of 33k dialup when visitors would patiently wait a minute for a site to load are LONG gone.

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team
Oct
1
2020

Kernel Module Snippets - Part 5 - Encryption

Intro Key to transporting anything over the internet these days, is encryption. For a tunnel, this involved encrypting the whole packet that would be your payload.

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team
Sep
30
2020

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 4 – UDP in the kernel

Intro There are many ways to implement the UDP handling. Since I’m primarily interested in using UDP to tunnel traffic from a client to a server, both of which are known and controlled by me, I’m going to implement a udp_tunnel.

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team
Sep
17
2020

Kernel Module Snippets – Part 2 – Hello World Continued

Intro In the last post, I mentioned the /proc system but never got much further. We’ll delve a little deeper in this post.

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team
Mar
17
2020

Strategies to lead remote team members WELL

I know that, like me, you’re getting inundated with emails from people you don’t normally hear about, as to what they are doing with Covid 19.

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team
Mar
17
2020

Covid-19 – Technology considerations and 6+ ways we can help

The global circumstances around the Covid-19 outbreak, which the World Health Organization is now calling a pandemic, continue to rapidly evolve.

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