Every penetration test starts the same way: figuring out what’s actually running on the network. Before you touch…
Shipping MySQL or MariaDB backups to S3 gets them off the database host and into durable, geographically redundant…
The Prometheus mysqld_exporter scrapes metrics from MySQL or MariaDB and exposes them in the Prometheus text format on…
The Ubuntu package repos ship a Go compiler (golang-go) but it usually lags the upstream release by a…
Primary-replica (historically called master-slave) replication on MariaDB gives you an asynchronous copy of a database you can use…
Monit is a tiny watchdog daemon that monitors processes, filesystems, and system health on a single host. It’s…
Snap packages aren’t the first choice for everyone on the RHEL family, but some applications only ship as…
Supervisor is a lightweight process manager that watches non-daemonized programs, restarts them when they die, and gives you…
When you’re watching a server and top feels like a relic, two TUI process monitors stand out as…
When the disk is filling up and you need to know what’s eating it, ncdu is the fastest…
bat is the modern replacement for cat. Same interface, same pipe behaviour, but with syntax highlighting for hundreds…
When you inherit a Linux box with no documentation and need to know what hardware is underneath, dmidecode…
