The recent CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability in glibc exposed a common antipattern in container management. Here's what you can do to avoid it, and instead adopt a container management pattern that will preserve your sanity and enable you to react to critical issues in minutes.

The Open edX "Dogwood" release is out. We've been running its code base in production for several weeks, and can share some first-hand experience.

In which I talk about landing my first patch in Open edX.

Earlier this month, I got on a flight to Perth, WA to make my annual trek to linux.conf.au, the largest open-source conference in the Southern Hemisphere and one of my favorite conferences on the circuit. LCA is an excellent, volunteer-run, hugely insightful conference and well worth the 26-hour …

Today, the developers released Ceph 0.61, codenamed cuttlefish. There are some interesting features in this new release, take a look.

One thing that will undoubtedly make Ceph a lot more palatable to RHEL/CentOS users is the availability of Ceph in EPEL. This was originally announced in late March …