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The history of Docker containers (according to GoogleSearch)
Pre-Docker: The Seeds of Containerization 1979: chroot: The concept of process isolation began with the chroot system call in Unix V7, which could change the root directory of a process and its children, effectively isolating them from the rest of … Continue reading
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Python3 Extension Modules with Boost
Boost (a collection of C++ libraries) provides excellent tools for writing Python extension modules in C++. However building these modules for Python3 has some issues. This blog suggests a workaround Continue reading
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Why use Duckduckgo
Duckduckgo is a search engine that is about 90% as good as Google. What do I mean by that? And why despite that I still recommend using Duckduckgo. Consider a simple search query “weed remover tool.” I am looking to … Continue reading
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Hosting your website in-house
There are 1700 million websites, of which around 200 million are active. Even of the active websites the vast majority are accessed less than once an hour, more like once a day. Most small businesses host their website on some … Continue reading