Practical Technology

The business environment is better than ever, but that isn’t stopping many tech companies from laying off employees. At the same time, numerous other organizations — often poorly run ones — insist remote workers return to the office (RTO) in the name…Read More

Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF to its friends, enables you to run sandboxed programs in a privileged context in the Linux kernel. Netflix and many other companies, such as Google, use it for network monitoring. Now, Netflix has unveiled…Read More

When most people want to talk to the manager, they may or may not get anywhere. But when tech billionaire Elon Musk grumbles, it’s a little different. Elon complained on X that he’d, “Just bought a new PC laptop, and it won’t let me use it unless I…Read More

A volunteer Nginx developer is forking Nginx, the world’s most popular web server, into Freenginx. By Netcraft‘s count, Nginx (pronounced EngineX) is the world’s most popular web server. So when a top Nginx developer, Maxim Dounin, announced he was…Read More

Opinion I keep hearing about businesses that want to fire their call center employees and front-line staffers as fast as possible and replace them with AI. They’re upfront about it. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said the company behind Facebook…Read More

When Broadcom bought VMware for $69 billion last November, we knew there would be changes. What we didn’t know is that Broadcom’s radical changes would leave partners and customers alike questioning their commitment to VMware. Personally, I’ve never…Read More