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For Amazon Linux, the recipes are slightly different for the AMI versus on-Prem. For the AMI we cut out a bunch of things from the initramfs that you don’t typically need in a clou…

Amazon Linux 2 is still a supporter OS. When it was released we announced it had 5 years of LTS support. With the AL2022 preview, we have just announced what comes after AL2. AL2 i…

There will still be Docker. It’s widely used in production by customers, including as part of other AWS services.

What this practically means is that a plain "make -j" will spawn all the processes that could run concurrently. So if you're building 1,000 files, it'll spawn 1,000 processes. This…

Not just Macs, plenty of Linux systems have a big.LITTLE design. with a big.LITTLE system it'll really depend what you're doing. Just compiling something? It's probably fine (if al…

I wasn't talking about the reading of the number of CPUs you could use, but rather how many threads you'd spawn based on that information. There may be 10 CPUs in the machine, but …