Ubuntu 26.04 ships PostgreSQL 18 in its default repositories. No third-party repos, no manual compilation. A single apt…
Docker 29 shipped with native support for Ubuntu 26.04 on day one. No PPA hacks, no pinning to…
The Prometheus mysqld_exporter scrapes metrics from MySQL or MariaDB and exposes them in the Prometheus text format on…
Shipping MySQL or MariaDB backups to S3 gets them off the database host and into durable, geographically redundant…
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…
The Ubuntu package repos ship a Go compiler (golang-go) but it usually lags the upstream release by a…
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…
Putting /tmp on its own filesystem isolates temporary files from the root volume and lets you mount it…
When you inherit a Linux box with no documentation and need to know what hardware is underneath, dmidecode…
