In this episode of Syscast, I talk to Jan-Piet Mens to discuss the differences between Linux and BSD systems. If you have any feedback, as always, reach out via e-mail at m@ttias.be or on Twitter at @mattiasgeniar. Show topics We discuss: The differences between Linux & BSD in user-land Why did Linux become more popular than BSD? How systemd drove …

In this new episode of Syscast, I talk to Jan Somers for a deep-dive into CPUs. We discuss Intel vs. AMD and what the role and future of ARM might be. If you have any feedback, as always, reach out via e-mail at m@ttias.be or on Twitter at @mattiasgeniar. Show topics In this episode, we discuss: The inception of Intel & AMD The x86 instructionset P…

I’m back! Sort of. This is a mono-episode where it’s just me talking about Config Management Camp, a conference held in Gent in February 2017. I recap a few interesting talks and projects I saw. This is an episode that I recorded in the car. So there might be audio quality concerns and I’m very much looking for feedback on this format: is it hearab…

I wish I didn’t have to bring this message, but I’m fairly certain you already noticed it: there hasn’t been a new SysCast podcast in a while. I’m taking a bit of a break to organise things, prepare better and overall bring a better show. But that takes time, and time is something I don’t have at the moment. The plan is to bring SysCast back in a f…

For the 6th episode of SysCast I’m joined by Scott Arciszewski. We talk about PHP, cryptography, securing online applications, cache timing attacks, his CMS called Airship and so much more. If you like security and crypto, you’ll like this episode! Shownotes Scott is @CiPHPerCoder on Twitter as well as @ParagonIE Scott works at Paragon Initiative E…

In this episode I talk to James Cammarata, head of Ansible core engineering to discuss the Ansible project. We discuss how it’s used as a config management tool in both a push/pull scenario, how Ansible can be used as a deployment tool and an orchestrator. We touch on the terminology, Red Hat’s acquisition, ideal use cases, how to get started with …

If you’re a sysadmin or a developer, you’ve probably used curl before. Or some kind of project, like PHP, Python, Ruby, … that uses libcurl. You can thank Daniel Stenberg, creator and maintainer of curl, for that. In this episode I talk to Daniel about the history of curl and libcurl, we discuss the web and open source, Google’s Quic, LibreSSL vs O…

This 3rd episode of SysCast revolves around secrets: managing API keys, passwords, tokens, … with Hashicorp’s Vault. I’m joined by Seth Vargo from Hashicorp who explains how Vault works, its internals, different use cases, key management & rollover and lots of interesting details about Vault itself. If you’re storing your passwords inside your git …

In this second SysCast podcast I talk with Nils De Moor about Docker; what is Docker, how does it work, different development workflows and other Docker best practices. If you’ve ever wanted to know what Docker is and how it can help in your infrastructure, this episode is for you. If I can borrow 2 minutes of your time, leave a rating on iTunes pl…

(Note: audio quality isn’t super great, I’ll get that fixed for episode #2) Exciting! This is the very first episode of the SysCast podcast! I’m very happy to have Matt Holt as my first guest, who created the Caddy webserver. We talk about the Caddy project, the Go language and community, the unique benefits of Caddy and its Caddyfile, dealing with…