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categories = ["Services", "Fun", "SaltStack", "Platform", "FOSDEM"]
date = "2023-12-15"
menu = ""
tags = ["paulbsd", "services", "fun", "saltstack", "platform", "fosdem2024"]
title = "PaulBSD December '23 updates"
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# PaulBSD December '23 updates (xmas)

Please apologies for the delay, few things to say with this post

# FOSDEM 2024

I'm going to Brussels on February to the FOSDEM, it's been a long time ago I'd want to be there to have fun and see something newer on open-source software / technologies / ham radio / hacking and some belgian beer !
It will be a pretty good time (I hope) to have talk to someone like me who enjoys new techs and going futher on them.
My last travel was Portsmouth & London, and the upcoming after Belgium would take place in Germany, Hamburg & Berlin or so ... to be continued

# ipbl / ipblc

ipblc has been turned to websocket protocol to replace the old zmq protocol beeing used.
Some stability improvements have been done in the multhreaded functional level of ipblc

# SaltStack

paulbsd-salt has been improved with automation on new techs as such:
* clickhouse: relational database for analitics, salt state provides automation on building cluster with some nodes
* vector: observability data, data transform. This software injest datafrom many source and sinks, with a powerful transformation language (VRL) and lua bindings. This tool is written in Rust and have very good performance in handling data (logs / sql results / insights)
* kopia: backup tool to replace already used borg with deduplication features / compression and data storage efficiency, written in golang

All automation in paulbsd-salt is free as in free beer and all improvements are welcome

# Christmas

I hope for you, your family and your friends to enjoy chrismas
It's a meeting time where no waste of time should'nt be done, so make it with pleasure !

Made with fun, again !