Benjamin Cane - Writing about Infrastructure and Software Engineering

Benjamin's specialty is keeping the lights on for mission critical systems. He is currently building applications that enable high concurrency financial transactions.

Recently Benjamin published his first book; Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide. In addition to writing, he has several Open Source projects focused on making Ops easier. These projects include Automatron, a project enabling auto-healing infrastructure for the masses.

Articles

Codeship Easy Container Cleanup in Cron + Docker Environments Published on: 2018-01-30 \| 6 min read
Codeship Using the Add-Host Flag for DNS Mapping within Docker Containers Published on: 2017-12-18 \| 6 min read
Codeship Adjusting Linux Kernel Parameters with Docker Compose Published on: 2017-12-14 \| 6 min read
Codeship Using Docker Commit to Create and Change an Image Published on: 2017-11-22 \| 5 min read
Codeship 3 Different Ways to Provide Docker Build Context Published on: 2017-09-21 \| 6 min read
AmericanExpress.io Eliminate the Database for Higher Availability Published on: 2017-07-24 \| 12 min read
Codeship Using Docker Push to Publish Images to Docker Hub Published on: 2017-07-19 \| 5 min read
Codeship Understanding Dockers CMD and ENTRYPOINT Instructions Published on: 2017-06-21 \| 6 min read
Codeship Leveraging the dockerignore File to Create Smaller Images Published on: 2017-05-18 \| 7 min read
Using stunnel and TinyProxy to obfuscate HTTP traffic Published on: 2017-04-15 \| 9 min read
Codeship Using Docker Behind a Proxy Published on: 2017-03-28 \| 7 min read
Codeship Improving Linux System Performance with I/O Scheduler Tuning Published on: 2017-02-08 \| 9 min read
Codeship Tuning PostgreSQL with pgbench Published on: 2017-01-05 \| 10 min read
Codeship Getting Every Microsecond Out of uWSGI Published on: 2016-12-07 \| 12 min read
Codeship Performance Tuning HAProxy Published on: 2016-11-15 \| 11 min read
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Projects

Automatron

Infrastructure monitoring framework turning DevOps runbooks into automated actions

Effing Shell Scripts 2

A common sense remote command execution tool inspired by fss, written in Go

cfdns

Command line tool for manipulating DNS of CloudFlare hosted domains

Books

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide

Identify, capture and resolve common issues faced by Red Hat Enterprise Linux administrators using best practices and advanced troubleshooting techniques

What people are saying:

Excellent, excellent resource for practical guidance on how to troubleshoot a wide variety of problems on Red Hat Linux. I particularly enjoyed how the author made sure to provide solid background and practical examples. I have a lot of experience on Red Hat but still came away with some great practical tools to add to my toolkit. - Amazon Review

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