Delve is now available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Starting in the RHEL 8.2 and devtools-2020.2 releases, the Go language debugger Delve will be installed with the Go toolchain itself via the go-toolset package.
Continue reading Using Delve to debug Go programs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
For a long time at Red Hat, all executables in RPMs were built with debuginfo enabled. While this practice makes it easier for people in support to investigate issues reported using tools such as GDB and crash, there are other important non-debugging uses for the resulting debuginfo.
Continue reading Debuginfo is not just for debugging programs
Data is a critical business application component, but ensuring consistent, reliable data access can be challenging. Adding distributed services and high availability to your application requirements makes data access even more complicated. You can now use Oracle’s Universal Connection Pool (UCP) together with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 7.3. This article introduces connection pooling with Oracle Universal Connection Pool and demonstrates how to integrate UCP with an Oracle RAC database in a JBoss EAP 7.3 deployment.
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Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.9 brings bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features for process and case management, business and decision automation, and business optimization. This article introduces you to Process Automation Manager’s out-of-the-box integration with Apache Kafka, revamped business automation management capabilities, and support for multiple decision requirements diagrams (DRDs). I will also guide you through setting up and using the new drools-metric module for analyzing business rules performance, and I’ll briefly touch on Spring Boot integration in Process Automation Manager 7.9.
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KubeVirt is a cloud-native virtual machine management framework based on Kubernetes. KubeVirt orchestrates workloads running on virtual machines in the same way that Kubernetes does for containers. KubeVirt has many features for managing the network, storage, images, and the virtual machine itself. This article focuses on two mechanisms for configuring network and storage requirements: Multus-CNI and CDI DataVolumes. You will learn how to configure these KubeVirt features for use cases that require high performance, security, and scalability.
Continue reading Using Multus and DataVolume in KubeVirt
In a previous article, I showed you how to customize Red Hat OpenShift software-defined networking (SDN) for your organization’s requirements and restrictions. In this article, we’ll look at using the Kuryr SDN instead. Using Kuryr with OpenShift 3.11 on Red Hat OpenStack 13 changes the customization requirements because Kuryr works directly with OpenStack Neutron and Octavia.
Note: This article builds on the discussion and examples from my previous one. I recommend reading the previous one first.
Traditional OpenShift installations leverage openshift-sdn, which is specific to OpenShift. Using openshift-sdn means that your containers run on a network within a network. This setup, known as double encapsulation, introduces an additional layer of complexity, which becomes apparent when troubleshooting network issues. Double encapsulation also affects network performance due to the overhead of running a network within a network.
Continue reading “Customizing and tuning the Kuryr SDN for Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 on Red Hat OpenStack 13”
Project Thoth develops open source tools that enhance the day-to-day life of developers and data scientists. Thoth uses machine-generated knowledge to boost the performance, security, and quality of your applications using artificial intelligence (AI) through reinforcement learning (RL). This machine-learning approach is implemented in Thoth adviser (if you want to know more, click here) and it is used by Thoth integrations to provide the software stack based on user inputs.
Continue reading AI software stack inspection with Thoth and TensorFlow
Profile-guided optimization (PGO) is a now-common compiler technique for improving the compilation process. In PGO (sometimes pronounced “pogo”), an administrator uses the first version of the binary to collect a profile, through instrumentation or sampling, then uses that information to guide the compilation process.
Profile-guided optimization can help developers make better decisions, for instance, concerning inlining or block ordering. In some cases, it can also lead to using obsolete profile information to guide compilation. For reasons that I will explain, this feature can benefit large projects. It also puts the burden on the compiler implementation to detect and handle inconsistencies.
This article focuses on how the Clang compiler implements PGO, and specifically, how it instruments binaries. We will look at what happens when Clang instruments source code during the compilation step to collect profile information during execution. Then, I’ll introduce a real-world bug that demonstrates the pitfalls of the current approach to PGO.
Continue reading “Profile-guided optimization in Clang: Dealing with modified sources”
The Python interpreter shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 is version 3.6, which was released in 2016. While Red Hat is committed to supporting the Python 3.6 interpreter for the lifetime of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, it is becoming a bit old for some use cases.
Continue reading Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 brings faster Python 3.8 run speeds
In the previous article, I discussed the benefits of C and C++ language restrictions in optimized code. In this second half, I present a variety of programming language exemptions and compiler extensions that developers can use to get around aliasing restrictions more or less safely. I will also discuss the common pitfalls of aliasing, both resulting from the extensions as well as from misuses of standard language constructs, and illustrate common problems these pitfalls might cause.
Continue reading “The joys and perils of aliasing in C and C++, Part 2”
