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packages.redbeardlab.com is a FUSE filesystem, easy to mount on any *nix machine, that provides a stable and reliable filesystem structure, to distribute software artifacts. In practice, packages.redbeardlab.com creates a new…
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packages.redbeardlab.com is a FUSE filesystem, easy to mount on any *nix machine, that provides a stable and reliable filesystem structures. Its main advantage is the stability of its structures. Once…
The first step after having set up packages.redbeardlab.com, a public CernVM-FileSystem is to install software. The software on packages.redbeardlab.com cannot depend on anything that is not on /cvmfs/packages.redbeardlab.com, this ensures…
Roughly ~10 years ago, CERN had a software problem. How to distribute the big software stack necessary to analyze and simulate collision data to ~100 datacenter around the world? How…
I found a lonely and weird corner case of Linux IO, file descriptors, Linux processes and, fork calls. Figuring out the problem took me a solid half a day, so…
SimpleSQL provides a REST API to create databases and manipulate them. We try to aswer the question: What if a database was as simple as a file to manage? SimpleSQL…
SimpleSQL is an HTTP API that allow complete control over a SQLite database. Underneath SimpleSQL is based on RediSQL to manage all the different databases, connections, backups, replication, etc. One…
An invariant is a condition that holds true no matter what during the execution of a phase of a computer program. For instance, in a classical for loop, for (i…
In this short post we are going to understand how to install software when stuff don’t work out of the box. We will understand how a *NIX shell search for…
Industries are usually characterized as labor-intensive or as capital-intensive. Labor-intensive industries requires a lot of human input in order to produce their output. A classical examples is the industry of…