Sysadmin Tools 🇺🇦

Quare FreeBSD? https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/ #freebsd #bsd

Introducing ClickHouse's new TimeSeries Engine: Your drop-In Prometheus replacement https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-promql #clickhouse #tsdb #promql #timeseries

VictoriaTraces is now available to all cloud users!

With this release, you can now manage all three signals, metrics, logs, and traces in one place with the predictable pricing, reliability, and operational simplicity you’ve come to expect from VictoriaMetrics.

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/announcing-victoriatraces-in-cloud/ #observability #tracing #jaeger #zipkin

ctlptl: Declarative Local Kubernetes Cluster Manager

ctlptl is a lightweight CLI tool for declaratively creating and managing local Kubernetes clusters across Docker Desktop, Kind, Minikube, and K3d

https://github.com/tilt-dev/ctlptl #k3s #k8s #kubernetes

The VictoriaMetrics team are looking for engineers to join us: * Software Engineer — VictoriaTraces Team (EMEA/APAC) Hands-on Go development, distributed tracing, observability, OpenTelemetry, and open-source work. * Senior Solution Engineer — North America A deeply technical, customer-facing role for someone strong in Linux, observability, troubleshooting, Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, and distributed systems. If either sounds like you — or someone you know — we’d love to hear from you! Please apply here: careers.victoriametrics.com

Postgres with QUIC: Why Stream Multiplexing Beats Traditional TCP Connection Pooling https://blogs.lupyd.com/blog/postgres-with-quic/ #postgres #sql #databases #quic

virtio-nvgpu

A virtio device for near-native NVIDIA GPU access in KVM virtual machines.

https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu #kvm #linux #gpu #nvidia #virtio

Spinifex

Open source AWS-compatible platform for secure edge deployments. Run EC2, VPC, S3, and EBS-like services on bare metal with full control. Built for environments where running in the cloud isn’t an option. Whether you’re deploying to edge sites, private data-centers, or operating in low-connectivity or highly contested environments.

https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex #aws #ec2 #s3 #ecr #eks

PostgreSQL 19 interactive tour https://victoriametrics.com/blog/postgres-19/ #postgres #postgresql #sql #databases

LiteLLM: Custom Callback for Traffic Mirroring and OTel Tracing to VictoriaTraces https://rtfm.co.ua/en/litellm-custom-callback-for-traffic-mirroring-and-otel-tracing-to-victoriatraces #llm #observability #ai #otel #tracing #victoriatracing #monitoring

The ten best-known managed GitHub Actions runner platforms, priced, graded and dated https://runnerbench.com/ #git #github #benchmark

Performance Progression of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 https://www.percona.com/blog/performance-progression-of-percona-server-for-mysql-8-4 #mysql #percona #sql

Launching Route 53 Files

I'm excited to announce Route 53 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon's highest-availability database.

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html #aws #dns #devops

Trading the Grafana stack for VictoriaMetrics on OpenShift https://mikeosude.com/posts/blog-victoriametrics-migration #observability #openshift #monitoring #victoriametrics

Dashglass

Lightweight Prometheus dashboards with GitOps-first file storage — a single Go binary

https://github.com/bleemeo/dashglass #grafana #prometheus #promql #victoriametrics

OpenObserve vs Prometheus & Mimir: Metrics Benchmark https://openobserve.ai/blog/openobserve-vs-prometheus-mimir-metrics-benchmark #prometheus #mimir #openobserve #observability #benchmark

Using Nagios for small business infrastructure monitoring https://tech.chrishardie.com/2026/nagios-small-business-infrastructure-monitoring #observability #monitoring #nagios

Rebuilding Postgres for 300x faster analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine #postgres #sql #rust #benchmark

GPU Observability with the OpenLIT Collector and the VictoriaMetrics observability stack https://victoriametrics.com/blog/victoriametrics-openlit-gpu-observability #observability #monitoring #victoriametrics #opentelemetry