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Episode 384: Interplanetary Peers

September 21st, 2018  |  37 mins 14 secs

alpine linux, cloudflare, content-addressable storage, data breach, decentralization, decentralized storage, devops, dnslink, docker, filecoin, filesystems, government payment service, govpaynow, hacktoberfest, interplanetary filesystem, ipfs, ipns, ipsec, javascript, magecart, newegg, orbitdb, payment systems, peer-to-peer, podcast, sysadmin, vpn, wd my cloud, western digital

Jon the Nice Guy joins Wes to discuss all things IPFS. We'll explore what it does, how it works, and why it might be the best hope for a decentralized internet.

Episode 351: Performance Meltdown

January 11th, 2018  |  41 mins 43 secs

backdoor, coordinated disclosure, freebsd, kaiser, kpti, macos high sierra, meltdown, pcid, perfmon, performance, pti, side-channel attack, spectre, speculative execution, sysadmin podcast, sysinternals, techsnap, ubuntu, wd my cloud

The types of workloads that will see the largest performance impacts from Meltdown, tools to test yourself, and the outlook for 2018.

Plus a concise breakdown of Meltdown, Spectre, and side-channel attacks like only TechSNAP can.