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C500k in Action at Urban Airship
Explore the Airship blog for insights on mobile marketing, cross-channel messaging, personalization, customer engagement, and CX best practices.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 376 posts.
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Tracking Every Release
We spend a lot of time gathering metrics for our network, servers, and many things going on within the code that drives Etsy....
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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone,…
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Docker 1.0
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers
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Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These feature…
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What chroot taught me about containers
In this article, the author explores the concept of containers and how they are essentially chrooted processes. They walk through the process of bu...
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WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers
Hands-on exploration of using Docker to run WebAssembly applications.
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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
If you’ve been keeping up on the latest tech news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the CPU security flaw that Google’s Project Zero disclosed last Wednesday. On Friday, w…
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October 21 post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.
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Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions
Update: We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. We are continuing to…
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GitLab Container Registry
Built on open source software, GitLab Container Registry isn't just a standalone registry; it's completely integrated with GitLab.
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Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely available, and by making certificates smaller. Given that we…
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What is the best hard drive?
Check out the latest Hard Drive Stats. It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a
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So you want to expose Go on the Internet
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That’s not necessary anymore!
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Litestream v0.5.0
Same Litestream goodness but better, faster, stronger
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015
In 2015 we ran 56,224 hard drives in our datacenter. In this post we review the reliability of the Seagate, HGST, Toshiba, and Western Digital drives.
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Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Ceph is an open source distributed storage system designed to evolve with data.
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Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
Let’s Encrypt had a great year in 2018. We’re now serving more than 150 million websites while maintaining a stellar security and compliance track record. Most importantly though, the Web went from 67% encrypted page loads to 77% in 2018, according to statistics from Mozilla. This is an incredible rate of change! We’d…
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The Bun Shell
The Bun Shell is a cross-platform shell that allows you to run shell scripts in JavaScript & TypeScript
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Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage
Inaugural blog post about the development of turbopuffer, a search engine that uses object storage and SSD caching for cost-effective, low latency search. This post describes into the motivation behind its creation, its unique architecture, and how it significantly reduces costs for large-scale vector searches…