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What begins with curiosity can shape a career. In this interview, we meet Alejandra Retana Piedra, whose first encounter with Linux as a child in Costa Rica quietly sparked a journey into IT and open source. Today, her passion and ... Read more The post A Curiosity For Linux: Alejandra’s Foss Path appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expected the internet. Its earliest appearance (as ARPANET) took place in the same year—1969—as the comedy troupe behind the Spanish Inquisition quip, Monty Python. But during its first decade, the internet was treated as a ... Read more The post Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 1 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
For quite some time now, Linux has been waiting for that long-awaited “breakthrough year” on the desktop market: a chance to chip away at those percentage points that signal real progress. This time around, something might actually give it that ... Read more The post Continuous Growth for Linux on the Desktop appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
The first article in this two-part series laid out the landscape of distributed computing just before containers became a viable option. Now we’ll bring the story up to date. Although the term “containers” originated with the Docker project, the idea ... Read more The post How Kubernetes Came to Dominate Large-Scale Computing: Part 2 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
The future is already here. And in the history recounted by this series, the reason is remarkably simple: it never went anywhere. We live in an era where technology permeates every moment of our existence; where the consolidation of technological ... Read more The post Linux Is Already the Future. It Never Left appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Dozens of vendors are wooing organizations of all sizes to adopt cloud services. But the hot item that all the experts are recommending to developers and system administrators is Kubernetes. Master Kubernetes, and you can run programs on any cloud ... Read more The post How Kubernetes Came to Dominate Large-Scale Computing, Part 1 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Some decisions look small from the outside. You open a document, you download a file, you tell yourself, Today is the day! But sometimes that quiet moment changes everything. For me, it happened on a November morning in Warsaw. I ... Read more The post Sudo Apt-Get: Viktoriia’s Linux Essentials Preparation Story appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
In today’s digital era, and even more with the rise of AI, the protection of your data and reputation has never been more crucial. As we navigate the vast landscape of information technology, understanding the foundational principles of IT security ... Read more The post Morrolinux: Protecting Your Data and Reputation appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Congratulations—you’ve made it to the final posting in our DevOps Tools Introduction series. Throughout the last few months, we’ve explored new topics each and every week. Working through all the referenced resources was a significant investment of time. In return, ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #16: Taking the Test appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Congratulations, you’ve made it to the final lesson in our DevOps Tools Introduction series. Throughout the last few months, we’ve explored new topics each and every week. Modern distributed systems introduce a level of complexity that makes traditional monitoring approaches ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #15: Tracing appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Congratulations, you’ve made it to the final posting in our DevOps Tools Introduction series. Throughout the last few months, we’ve explored new topics each and every week. Working through all the referenced resources was a significant investment of time. In ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #15: Taking the Test appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Android virtualization on single-board computers (SBCs) can seem like a complicated process. Running Android applications on embedded hardware without resorting to heavy emulators or expensive proprietary solutions is highly frustrating. Enter Redroid on RK3588, a solution designed to make your ... Read more The post Redroid: The Lightweight, Open Source Android Virtualizer appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Database management brought me to PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL brought me to open source advocacy, and—during the past year—open source advocacy brought me to the Board of Directors at Linux Professional Institute. In this article I’ll trace this journey and describe the ... Read more The post Why I Joined the LPI Board of Directors – Henrietta Dombrovskaya appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
While running, most applications, containers, and virtual machines constantly generate information about numerous events. These events can be anything from severe errors to a simple notice that the server successfully answered a request. Collecting and analysing this log data becomes ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #14: Log Management and Analysis appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
The previous article in this series described the special features that make functional programming attractive. This article applies those concepts to programming today. Some Important Influences of Functional Programming Although functional languages have always been held at arm’s length by ... Read more The post Functional Languages and the Future of Programming (Part 2) appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
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