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Gathering data as it changes over the passage of time is known as time-series data. Today, it has become a part of every industry and ecosystem. It is a large part of the growing IoT sector and will become a larger part of everyday people's lives. But time-series data and its requirements are hard to work with. This is because there are no tools that are purpose-built to work with time-series data. In this article, I go into detail about those problems and how InfluxData has been working to solve them for the past 10 years.

Kickstarter recently featured the HackyPi which is an educational embedded device designed for ethical hacking and compatible with Python and C/C++. The device is based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and it can run scripts automatically by connecting it via USB. The HackyPi is powered by the Dual core RP2040 microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. RP2040 […]

Mastodon is a free, decentralized, and open-source social network. It was created as an alternative to Twitter. This tutorial will teach you how to set up your instance of Mastodon on a server with Ubuntu 22.04 using Docker.

The whole of modern networking is built upon an unreliable medium. Routing equipment has free license to discard, corrupt, reorder, or duplicate data which it forwards. The understanding of the IP layer in TCP/IP is that there are no guarantees of accuracy. No IP network can claim to be 100% reliable.

DocArray is a library for nested, unstructured, multimodal data in transit, including text, image, audio, video, 3D mesh, and so on. Starting in November of 2022, DocArray is open source...

If only there were some way to avoid...oh, there is? RTFM Security researchers at have identified multiple vulnerabilities arising from careless use of the Rust Hyper package, a very popular library for handling HTTP requests.…

The SenseCAP M4 Square is an edge computing solution integrating a Quad-core J4125 processor and a Dual-core RP 2040 microcontroller as a coprocessor. This device offers a 2.5GbE port, dual 4K@60Hz displays and it can run FluxOS for web3.0 dAPPs. As mentioned earlier, the SenseCAP M4 Square features the following Celeron processor with 14nm architecture […]

Mastodon is an open source social networking platform for microblogging. While it has a web-based interface, many users prefer to use a client to access Mastodon. Clients are programs or applications that allow users to access and interact with the Mastodon platform from a variety of devices, including computers, tablets, and phones. This is a list of my favorite Mastodon clients so far.

Teleport is an open-source that can be used as an access plane for your global infrastructure. It provides zero-trust access to various services such as servers, Kubernetes clusters, database servers, DevOps applications like AWS Management Console, CI/CD, version control, and desktops.

NetBox is an open-source IP address (IPAM) and datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) web application used to manage and document computer networks and IP addresses. This tutorial will teach you how to install the NetBox tool on a Ubuntu 22.04 server and Nginx as a reverse proxy server.

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator designed for high-traffic dynamic websites. This post will show you how to install the Varnish Cache and configure it with Apache on Ubuntu 22.04.

The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.1. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Tuesday, Jan 03, 2023 to Sunday, Jan 07, 2023. Refer to the wiki page […]

Matomo, formerly Piwik, is free and open-source web analytics software that can track website visits and display reports for data and audience analysis. In this tutorial, you will set up and secure your web analytics with Matomo on a Ubuntu 22.04 server.

ASRock Industrial released today various fanned Mini PCs powered by Raptor Lake-P Intel processors. Some of these Mini-PCs offer support for DDR5-4800MHz, dual 2.5GbE LAN, Wi-Fi6E and 4K@60Hz quad-displays. The NUCS 1300 BOX Series (Slim form-factor) and the NUC 1300 BOX Series are offered with the following 13th Gen Intel Core processors: i5-1340P — 12C/16T […]

Helpy is a free and open-source customer support platform written in the Ruby on Rails language. This post will show you how to install the Helpy Helpdesk Customer Support System on Ubuntu 22.04.

I teach university courses part-time, including a class about general computing topics, open to all majors. This is an introductory course that teaches students about how technology works, to remove the mystery around computing.

When using ISPConfig, by default, you only have the main PHP version for your distribution. This guide will take you through installing additional PHP versions (5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, and 8.2) on a Ubuntu server with ISPConfig.

Users have many options to customize and extend ShardingSphere's high availability (HA) solutions. Our team has completed two HA plans: A MySQL high availability solution based on MGR and an openGauss database high availability solution contributed by some community committers. The principles of the two solutions are the same. Below is how and why ShardingSphere can achieve database high availability using MySQL as an example.

ERPNext is an open-source Enterprise ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system. In this tutorial, you will install the ERPNext on a Rocky Linux 9 server and then secure your installation with SSL/TLS certificates via Certbot and Letsencrypt.

This tutorial will take you through updating a server managed by ISPConfig from Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) to Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). This guide works for both single- and multiserver setups.