Docker is a great way to run web applications and services in a container. With Docker, each container is isolated from the host which encourages composability and greatly improves security. In this article, I will describe how I prepared a number of services to run in Docker on one of my servers.
With CGO_ENABLED=0 set, the Go compiler produces binaries with no runtime dependencies, not even libc. This greatly simplifies deploying the application in Docker since no base image is required. However, there are a few caveats and pitfalls that I would like to address in this article.
In an attempt to better understand the effect of temperature and humidity in weather forecasting, I decided to build a small thermometer with an Arduino and a temperature sensor. In a future article, I will explore some of the data that I capture and the software that analyzes the data. This article will focus on the thermometer.
Yes, you read that right. In this article, I am going to detail the process of getting Debian 0.91 up and running in qemu on an Ubuntu 16.04 host. The adventure promises to be a fun one since Debian 0.91 was released in… 1994.
I have always been a big fan of the Nexus product line. I first wrote about the Nexus 5 back in January of 2014. It was a truly excellent phone. When the Nexus 6 was released, I grabbed one of those as well and thoroughly enjoyed the increased screen size and turbo charge. That would prove to be the last Nexus phone I purchased.