🎉 Special Announcement! 🎉

📅 Save the date: January 30th, at 10 am PT / 6 pm GMT / 7 pm CET! 🚀
Join us for the first-ever #VictoriaMetrics Tech Talk, cohosted by Marc Sherwood and Mathias Palmersheim. 🧠✨
📡 Blackbox Monitoring
Discover how to gain valuable insights into your application's health and performance from an external perspective. 🌐📊
👩‍💻 This session is perfect for:
✅ #SREs
✅ #SysAdmins
✅ #DevOps Engineers
✅ #Monitoring & #Observability experts
Whether you want to sharpen your strategy or stay ahead in the game, this talk is for you! 💡
📺 Tune in on our YouTube Channel! 🔔

https://youtu.be/deDo_keTxjs

Bunster

A shell compiler that converts shell scripts into secure, portable and static binaries. Unlike other tools (ie. shc), Bunster does not just wrap your script within a binary. It literally compiles them to standalone shell-independent programs.

https://github.com/yassinebenaid/bunster

#bash #shell #scripts #go

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-Infra-Crisis

Virtualization Showdown: Benchmarking Single-Node Hypervisors

https://labrepo.com/virtualization-showdown-benchmarking-single-node-hypervisors

#proxmox #esxi #vmware #harvester #redhat #kvm #debian #openshift #nutanix #hyperv #benchmark

postmarketOS-powered Kubernetes cluster

https://blog.denv.it/posts/pmos-k3s-cluster

#k8s #kubernetes #linux #k3s #raspberry

PostgreSQL: AWS RDS Performance and monitoring

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/postgresql-aws-rds-performance-and-monitoring-2/

#postgresql #monitoring #rds #aws #postgres

🚀 At VictoriaMetrics, we create high-performance, #OpenSource #monitoring solutions, including a commercial offering. For that, we're looking for a Full Stack Engineer.

You'll join a team that develops and maintains our anomaly detection product 🔍 while contributing to its #scalability, efficiency, and customer experience.
If you're a Seasoned Full Stack Engineer (5+ years of professional experience) 🏆 who can work autonomously, managing feature development end-to-end 🎯, we want you! You're not just a coder—a problem-solver 🧩, capable of improving architecture, resource efficiency, and customer experience. You understand how to translate business needs into scalable tech solutions ⚡️ and thrive in a CI/CD-driven environment 🔄.

You're a great fit if you've worked with open-source technologies before! ✅

👉 Apply Today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/191rKRo8PY52VoVhAsescqEHOa-hOVMdyJ7zvbwsK7zU/edit?usp=sharing

VictoriaMetrics team looking for a Webmaster who can develop initiatives for our fast-growing OpenSource observability scaleup as they relate to our online properties. This individual contributor role combines technical Expertise, creative vision, and marketing alignment.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you:
✅ Solid experience with CMS – ideally, you have used or know of Hugo (the open-source CMS we use)
📱 Experience with responsive website design
💻 Expert-level proficiency in modern web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/ES6+)
🔄 Proficiency with version control systems (Git)
🗣️ Fluency in English

Do not hesitate to apply today!

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1QJpR2mDxPU6CeR1kljlzbpSjQxKR1TIpDuWA8Qi9Rc4/mobilebasic#heading=h.2snme1zg8mq0

Installing firefox from mozilla apt repositories instead of flatpak

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended

#deb #debian #apt #ubuntu

PostgreSQL: using EXPLAIN and setting up “auto_explain” in AWS RDS

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/postgresql-using-explain-and-setting-up-auto_explain-in-aws-rds/

#postgres #postgresql #monitoring #rds #aws

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and More: Which Is Better for Metrics Collection and Propagation?

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/opentelemetry-prometheus-and-more

#opentelemetry #prometheus #monitoring #victoriametrics #benchmark

Building a fault-tolerant reverse proxy with FreeBSD

https://www.subnetspider.com/2025/01/22/building-a-fault-tolerant-reverse-proxy-with-freebsd.html

#freebsd #haproxy #unix

ProxLB 1.0.7 (an #opensource DRS alike solution for #Proxmox clusters) is just around the corner!

It will be the last version before I'm going to publish the new refactored code base in a modern and object oriented way

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

#drs #loadbalancer #homelab

Три роки спротиву. Три роки вдячності. Три роки абсолютного героїзму українців. Пишаюся Україною! Дякую всім, хто захищає її та допомагає. Всім, хто працює на Україну. І вічна памʼять кожному, хто віддав своє життя заради нашої держави та людей. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

#SupportUkraine

NUT on my Pi, so my servers don't die

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/nut-on-my-pi-so-my-servers-dont-die

#linux #raspberry

On How We Moved to Kubernetes

https://radekmie.dev/blog/on-how-we-moved-to-kubernetes

#aws #eks #k8s #kubernetes

tigerbeetle

The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance

https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle

#databases #distributed #zig

Warewulf

Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems

https://github.com/warewulf/warewulf

#hpc #containers #cluster

HowTo: Matrix Synapse Server on FreeBSD with SSO via Microsoft Azure AD by OIDC

https://gyptazy.com/howto-matrix-synapse-server-on-freebsd-with-sso-via-microsoft-azure-ad-by-oidc

#freebsd #matrix #azure #sso #microsoft