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What Everybody Knows About You: Your Watch

This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous articles talked about devices in your home and your car; now we’ll get more personal. The data collected by fitness devices occupies an ambiguous place on … Read more

How I Scored 100% on the Linux Essentials Exam

To celebrate the beginning of my journey as a Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Trainer, I wanted to reshape some video content of mine as an LPI article. So: Hello everybody, I’m Szymon Izydorek, the creator behind the BecomeDevops channel. In … Read more

DevOps Tools Introduction #04: Source Code Management

Storing work results and sharing them with colleagues is an essential part of open source and DevOps culture. Source code management (SCM) and version control ensure that all members of a team stay on top of changes to source code … Read more

What Everybody Knows About You: Your Car

This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous article talked about devices in your home. Modern cars are probably the most intensive conglomerations of computing power we have in day-to-day life. Estimates of the … Read more

DevOps Tools Introduction #03: Cloud Components and Platforms

Previous installments in this series described modern software development and got us thinking about architectures for that software. Equipped with this knowledge, we will focus on the building blocks of such applications. Objective 701.2 of LPI’s DevOps Tool Engineer exam … Read more

AI Makes Advances in 3D Printing

Many industries hope to benefit from artificial intelligence, but currently they know very little about where it works and where it’s unreliable. 3D printing is a good field to look at how AI is helping to improve accuracy and cost, … Read more

What Everybody Knows About You: Your Home

This is the second article in a series about data collection today. The first article introduced the broad scope of the topic. Now we’ll start to look at particular venues for data collection. Is your home tracking you? A 2023 … Read more

LPI Expands Global Reach Through Enhanced Event Engagement

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) continues to strengthen its global presence by empowering partners, members, and community leaders to promote our certifications and collaborate at open source events worldwide. With a suite of initiatives designed to increase community engagement and event … Read more

DevOps Tools Introduction #02: Modern Software Development

The DevOps world never stands still — and neither does the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). With the release of the DevOps Tools Engineer certification version 2.0, LPI has aligned the exam with what professionals are actually using in production today: … Read more

What Everybody Knows About You: Data Collection and Privacy in 2026

In the digital era, it seems like the hope for personal privacy is lost. We all hear stories of daily privacy violations along with scary predictions for the future. But what is really happening? This eleven-part series scans the landscape … Read more

FOSS and Digital Sovereignty: Capital Series ‘25

On October 23, the halls of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) hosted a gathering that felt both timely and quietly urgent. The Capital Series Copenhagen, organized by OpenForum Europe, brought together a diverse group of policymakers and digital strategists to discuss … Read more

DevOps Tools Introduction #01: Getting “Getting Started” Started

In November 2025, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) released version 2.0 of the Linux Professional Institute DevOps Tools Engineer certification. Covering a series of tools used to develop and deliver software in a collaborative manner, the content of this exam extends … Read more