Non-Obvious Docker Uses
Matt Rickard gives some Non-Obvious Docker Uses.
Is keeping dates in UTC really the best solution?
In many projects, the approach to dates is quite nonchalant. People do as they want. When on-premise systems were king, the common problem was that it was hard to know precisely when something happened. The consistency of the configuration depended on how meticulous ops people were. It wasn’t shocking to find out that the server had a different time zone, the application had a different one, and the user had a different time zone. At one point, the development community found a compromise that “maybe we would use the same time zone everywhere, for instance UTC”.
Source: Is keeping dates in UTC really the best solution?, an article by Oskar Dudycz.
Hardening SSH
In 2019, Netcraft found 74.2% of web-facing machines run Linux. During an IPv4-wide census in 2016, an OpenSSH banner was detected 75% of the time when there was a response on TCP port 22. It's safe to say OpenSSH is probably the world's most popular software for connecting to servers remotely. It's also one of the most prized attack vectors given the functionality offered to anyone able to connect.
Hardening the security aspects of an OpenSSH configuration is very challenging. It's even worse for teams that aren't focused on network security and can't justify the budget for consultants setting up bespoke systems.
Source: Hardening SSH, an article by Mark Litwintschik.