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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide

Identify, capture and resolve common issues faced by Red Hat Enterprise Linux administrators using best practices and advanced troubleshooting

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Feb 5, 2025

Cell-based Architecture Explained, with Zombies

What do Cell-based Architectures and Zombies have in common? Absolutely nothing, until today, that is.

Cell-based Architecture Explained, with Zombies

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Jun 1, 2022

How to Structure a Golang Project

Structuring Go Projects is the number one question for Gophers, new and old. What are the best practices? What should you not do?

How to Structure a Golang Project

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Jan 12, 2024

Microservices: are they good or bad? The truth is, it depends

I’ve seen a growing sentiment in the industry that microservices are bad and monoliths are good. But is that true?

Something can be both good and bad, this is a cat. Cats are both good and bad.

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Jan 2, 2023

Maximizing TCP Throughput in Linux: Understanding and Tuning Send and Receive Buffers

Are you looking to improve network efficiency in Linux? One effective way to do so is by tuning the TCP Send and Receive buffers.

Maximizing TCP Throughput in Linux: Understanding and Tuning Send and Receive Buffers

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Microservices can work for low-latency workloads — if you design for it

Microservices can work for low-latency workloads if you design them that way.

Microservices can work for low-latency workloads — if you design for it

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Nov 2

Production bugs happen. Fix the gap, not just the bug.

Software bugs happen; how you handle them is what matters.

Production bugs happen. Fix the gap, not just the bug.

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Oct 26

A timeout doesn’t mean an operation failed. It means you don’t know the outcome.

A trap I see people fall into when implementing resiliency is assuming a timeout means something failed.

A timeout doesn’t mean an operation failed. It means you don’t know the outcome.

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Oct 19

Sometimes the biggest contributor to latency isn’t processing or network time.

I’ve got a talk coming up at P99 Conf (Oct 21–22) about managing correctness in asynchronous systems. While thinking about how to explain…

Sometimes the biggest contributor to latency isn’t processing or network time.

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Oct 12

System Design pro-tip: force yourself to create a viable second design.

This is an interesting practice I’ve picked up over the years to challenge my own thinking.

System Design pro-tip: force yourself to create a viable second design.

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Oct 9

One of my favorite aspects of gRPC isn’t the performance.

I’ve shared a lot about the benefits of gRPC, and most of that focuses on what makes it fast and reliable. One of the biggest benefits has…

One of my favorite aspects of gRPC isn’t the performance.

Benjamin Cane

Benjamin Cane

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Builder of payments systems & open-source contributor. Writing mostly micro-posts on Medium. Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencane

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