OTUS Publishes September Digest of Free Lessons on Linux Administration, PostgreSQL, CI/CD and Infrastructure Security
OTUS has published its September digest of free lessons for engineers responsible for infrastructure, covering Linux, databases, CI/CD and security topics.
The company offers practicing specialists an opportunity to attend online sessions led by current instructors who demonstrate technologies on real production cases.
Administration of Linux and servers
- 7 September 20:00 – Linux for Windows administrators in 60 minutes
- 17 September 20:00 – Where Linux stores settings and logs: practical analysis of the file system structure
- 21 September 20:00 – Typical tasks with RAID arrays: creation, operation, data migration and recovery
- 22 September 20:00 – Top GPO policies that will help you
- 24 September 19:00 – Can AI fix a Linux server: where hints end and engineering diagnostics begin
Performance, databases and high availability
- 8 September 20:00 – Fighting locks in PostgreSQL: achieving high concurrency under heavy load
- 8 September 20:00 – LVM without downtime: volume expansion, data migration and emergency rollback via snapshot
- 23 September 20:00 – Using Patroni to manage highly available PostgreSQL clusters
- 23 September 20:00 – eBPF: X-ray vision for production
Infrastructure automation and DevOps
- 10 September 20:00 – Setting up GitLab Runners
- 17 September 20:00 – Release management in 1C: GitFlow, code review and CI/CD in practice (pre-recorded webinar)
- 9 September 20:00 – Go profiling: how to find and fix bottlenecks in production
Infrastructure security
- 22 September 20:00 – Automating traffic management with mitmproxy
- 22 September 20:00 – Can AI-generated code be trusted: finding hallucinations, vulnerabilities and outdated solutions
AI in the work of an engineer
- 8 September 20:00 – AI versus bugs: how to analyze an incident in a Python project from logs to fix
- 21 September 20:00 – One working day with AI: from emails and tables to a ready presentation for management
Related topics for engineer growth
- 8 September 20:00 – From technical leader to CTO: how to start making business-level decisions
- 9 September 20:00 – How a team lead can distribute responsibility without becoming a bottleneck
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