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Nix 2.0 Released
Nix reference manual version overview
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 31 posts.
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The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly
I have been meaning to write this post for a long time, but one thing or another has gotten in the way. It’s important to me to provide an accurate history, ...
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GitLab + Google Cloud Platform = simplified, scalable deployment
We’ve teamed up with Google Cloud Platform – here’s what that means for you.
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Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day
Discover Centrifuge—a system designed for high-performance, exact data delivery. Learn how it handles massive event volumes, ensuring no data loss. Join Segment's innovation.
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New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
I remember the excitement when AWS Lambda was announced in 2014! Four years on, customers are using Lambda functions for many different use cases. For example, iRobot is using AWS Lambda to provide compute services for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, Fannie Mae to run Monte Carlo simulations for millions of…
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Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter
We’ve calculated Backblaze’s storage durability at 99.999999999%. What does that impressively large number mean, and does it actually matter for your data?
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Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
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Secure Access to 100 AWS Accounts
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA
Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GAIn a previous blog - Containerd Brings More Container Runtime Options for Kubernetes, we introduced the alpha version of the Kubernetes containerd integration. With another 6 months of development, the integration with containerd is now generally available! You can now use…
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Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS
Encryption for all GitHub Pages sites
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Amazon DynamoDB Transactions
May 20, 2024: As of September 2022, DynamoDB now supports 100 items per transactions. March 13, 2020: Post updated to clarify how to use transactions with global tables and the increase in the maximum number of items per transaction from 10 to 25. Over the years, customers have used Amazon DynamoDB for lots of…
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Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge
A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it.
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GRPC and JSON
So you’ve bought into this whole RPC thing and want to try it out, but aren’t quite sure about Protocol Buffers. Your existing code encodes your own objects, or perhaps you have code that needs a particular encoding. What to do? Fortunately, gRPC is encoding agnostic! You can still get a lot of the benefits of gRPC…
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Update on Our Planned Move from Azure to Google Cloud Platform
GitLab.com is migrating to Google Cloud Platform August 11 – here’s what this means for you now and in the future.
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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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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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Npm operational incident, 6 Jan 2018
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment
Python 3.7 is available today in beta on the App Engine standard environment.
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Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)
How we're building GitLab into the complete DevOps toolchain.
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Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder
A guide to building a transcoder using Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda.
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How the modern containerization trend is exploited by attackers
This MacKeeper report will tell you about 6 major data breaches that happened in 2018.
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Introducing QUIC support for HTTPS load balancing
By Michael Behr, Software Engineer; Ian Swett, Software Engineer For four years now, Google has been using QUIC, a UDP-based encrypted tra...
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Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
An interview covering our experience running PostgreSQL on on-premises Kubernetes: challenges, open source and commercial tools, and alternatives for stateful apps.
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The Great Puri.sm Outage of 2018
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.