LinuxCon Europe 2011 in Prague

I’m currently at the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon Europe 2011 conference in Prague. I’ve been to the Collaboration Summit in San Francisco earlier this year, too, and I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality of the talks so far. This year’s talks seem to be a lot focussed on btrfs and ext4:

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How SSL/TLS clients validate certificates in a certificate chain

Certificate chains are a key feature of the entire SSL/TLS concept: a root Certificate Authority (CA) issues certificates for sub CAs, which in turn issue certificates for other sub CAs or end systems such as servers. The Sub CAs are often local departments, branch offices etc. and issuing a certificate for a sub CA, which… Continue reading How SSL/TLS clients validate certificates in a certificate chain

An introduction to Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT)

As one usually does not have easy (read: spontaneous, fast) access to servers stored away in some ISP’s data center, evaluating remote access/remote management solutions seems like a good idea. Since vendor-specific solutions such as iDRAC, iLO etc. were no option as I wouldn’t buy a “real” server, IPMI and iAMT came as the only… Continue reading An introduction to Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT)

When OS lifecycle becomes a burden, agileness becomes key

The very moment you start running a service of what kind ever, you will face yourself being exposed to the concepts and release cycles of the software underlying your service. In the case of Linux, among other issues this results in the question of what type of Linux distribution you deploy on your servers. The… Continue reading When OS lifecycle becomes a burden, agileness becomes key