Play Doom on Kubernetes
Jun08

Play Doom on Kubernetes

Do you ever feel nostalgic for Doom and other blocky video games, the ones that didn’t require much more than a mouse and the hope that you could survive on a LAN with your friends? You know what I’m talking about; the days when your weekends were consumed with figuring out how you could travel with your desktop and how many Mountain Dews you could fit in your cargo pants pockets? If this memory puts a warm feeling in your...

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Tune your MySQL queries like a pro
Jun08

Tune your MySQL queries like a pro

Many people consider tuning database queries to be some mysterious “dark art” out of a Harry Potter novel; with the wrong incantation, your data turns from a valuable resource into a pile of mush. read more Powered by...

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How FreeDOS boots
Jun08

How FreeDOS boots

One thing I appreciate from growing up with DOS computers is that the boot process is relatively easy to understand. There aren’t a lot of moving parts in DOS. And today, I’d like to share an overview of how your computer boots up and starts a simple operating system like FreeDOS. read more Powered by...

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Analyze community health metrics with this open source tool
Jun08

Analyze community health metrics with this open source tool

Community managers, maintainers, and foundations seek metrics and insights about open source communities. Because each open source project works differently, its data needs to be analyzed differently. Yet, all projects share common challenges with getting data and creating visualizations. This presents an ideal use case for an open source project to solve this problem generically with the capability to customize it to users’...

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