2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.

2.5 Admins 245: IPaaS

May 01, 2025 30:16 5.58 MB ( 20.17 MB less) Downloads: 0

Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.

 

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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking

 

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Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks

How Colossus optimizes data placement for performance

The web is broken, IMHO

 

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