Table of Contents

From the Editor—Doc Searls

An Immodest Proposal for the Music Industry  

The Monitoring Issue  by Bryan Lunduke

Letters

Letters to the editor  

UPFRONT

What's Your System's Uptime  by Ricardo Fraile

Patreon and Linux Journal   

Getting Started with Scilab  by Joey Bernard

FOSS Project Spotlight: BlueK8s  by Tom Phelan

Lessons in Vendor Lock-In: Shaving  by Kyle Rankin

Reality 2.0: a Linux Journal Podcast   

News Briefs  

Columns

Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Schedule One-Time Commands with the UNIX at Tool  

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Testing Your Code with Python's pytest  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Roman Numerals and Bash  

Zack Brown's diff -u   What's New in Kernel Development  

Glyn Moody's Open Sauce   Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend  

Deep Dive: Monitoring

Why Your Server Monitoring (Still) Sucks  by Mike Julian

Five observations about why your server monitoring still stinks by a monitoring specialist-turned-consultant.

CloudWatch Is of the Devil, but I Must Use It  by Corey Quinn

Let's talk about Amazon CloudWatch.

Bare-Bones Monitoring with Monit and RRDtool  by Andy Carlson

How to provide robust monitoring to low-end systems.

How-To: Implementing a Real-Time Syslog Shipper for Your Terminal  by Fabien Wernli

Ever wondered how to tail -F /var/log/messages from multiple servers at once? Read on.

Taking System Monitoring to the Next Level: an Interview with Scalyr CEO Steve Newmanl  by Petros Koutoupis

As computing ecosystems become more complex, monitoring and analyzing those often disconnected moving parts becomes increasingly challenging.

Articles

Review: the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Laptop  by Petros Koutoupis

A look at Dell's thin and sleek XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop that now ships with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS pre-installed.

Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps  by Philip Raymond

How to get started with Linux Apps for Chromebooks.

About ncurses Colors  by Jim Hall

Why does ncurses support only eight colors?

Game Review: Lamplight City  by Patrick Whelan

A well lit look into Grundislav Game's latest release..

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