Category: DevOps

What’s my S3 URL?

Confused by S3 links that work in one region and fail in another? This guide explains S3’s regional endpoints, the right URL patterns to use, common errors, and when to put CloudFront in front of your bucket.

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NTP — A Practical Introduction for Engineers

NTP keeps distributed systems in step with reality. This practical introduction explains what NTP is, how its algorithms work, the history from early ARPANET experiments to NTPv4 and NTS, and why accurate time underpins security, logging, replication, and operations—plus how NTP compares with PTP in modern environments.

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Is Your Server’s Clock Right?

Keep your servers within milliseconds of reality. This hands-on guide shows how to verify system time and timezone, confirm NTP health (chrony, systemd-timesyncd, ntpd), safely correct drift, and harden your setup with best practices. Copy-paste commands included for popular Linux distros.

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UTC: The Clock the Internet Runs On

UTC is the world’s neutral reference clock—born from railroads, telegraphs, and ultimately atomic clocks. This article explains what UTC is, why it matters for systems and schedules, and tells the story of how scientists and standards bodies coordinated civil time for a networked world.

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