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Meetup: New Security Features in Redis 6

Posted on March 5, 2020 by James Briggs

Redis Labs Security Product Manager Jamie Scott talked at the Redis Meetup today about “New Security Features in Redis 6 Open Source.” Because of the Corona virus, the lecture was streamed on Youtube instead of presented to a live audience … Continue reading →

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SVLUG: Daniel Klopp on Docker

Posted on April 1, 2015 by James Briggs

At Silicon Valley Users Group (SVLUG) tonite, Daniel Klopp, Senior Technical Consultant, Taos Consulting, gave an intermediate talk on “Docker.” He had some really informative and detailed slides on using Docker, especially his cgroup commands samples. Some of the interesting … Continue reading →

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SVLUG: Puppet

Posted on November 5, 2014 by James Briggs

At the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group tonite, James Taylor gave an intro on using Puppet. Overall, he loves Puppet. One of the few things he doesn’t like is the puppet-specific url of puppet:///, and another is user mgmt. He … Continue reading →

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SVLUG: SSH: Tips and Tricks

Posted on May 7, 2014 by James Briggs

Tonite at the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG), Jess Males gave an interesting talk on “SSH: Tips and Tricks”, including uncommon options, creating tunnels and running remote commands like tcpdump. Jess was an East Coast sysadmin who worked at … Continue reading →

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sv.pm.org: Building a Web Crawler with Perl

Posted on February 6, 2014 by James Briggs

Tonite at Silicon Valley Perl Mongers Group (sv.pm.org), Lambert Lum gave a talk on “Building a Web Crawler with Perl.” Largely he talked about the following Perl modules: WWW::Mechanize Web::Scraper Joe McMahon, a CPAN maintainer of 30 modules including WWW::Mechanize::Plugin, … Continue reading →

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