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March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
An update on our findings, the actions we’ve taken, and technical details of the bug.
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Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.
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Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs
Amazon produces and delivers to customers world-class entertainment via Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, MGM+, Amazon Music, Audible, Wondery, Amazon Games, and Twitch. Amazon’s entertainment properties empower millions of customers around the world to enjoy a massive selection of the very best in…
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LXD is now under Canonical
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
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We updated our RSA SSH host key
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.
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We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…
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Carving the scheduler out of our orchestrator
A deep dive into container scheduling and Flyd, our new orchestrator.
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Workers AI: Serverless GPU-powered inference
We are excited to launch Workers AI - an AI inference as a service platform, empowering developers to run AI models with just a few lines of code, all powered by our global network of GPUs
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The Determinate Nix Installer
A fresh new alternative to the official Nix installation scripts.
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The future of AlmaLinux
It’s been a whirlwind few weeks here at AlmaLinux, and I’m elated to be able to finally share this update. The future of AlmaLinux OSIn case you missed it, Red Hat announced they will no longer be providing the means for downstream clones to continue to be 1:1 binary copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Very…
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Bun v1.0.0
Bun is stable and ready for production.
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CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
Read CircleCI’s security alerts from January 2023. Last updated 1/13/2023.
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Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates would be trusted, even while our own ISRG Root X1…
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Rethinking serverless with FLAME
Imagine if you could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a temporary copy of your app
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
Explore Backblaze's Q3 2023 hard drive stats, revealing insights on 259,533 HDDs, failure rates, and data center performance for enhanced reliability.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
Check out the 2022 year-end Drive Stats data, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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D1: Improvements to performance and scalability
We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.
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FreeBSD on Firecracker
A large amount of fantastic open source software originates from “scratching an itch”. Such was the case with Firecracker . In 2014, Amazon launched AWS Lambda as a “serverless” compute platform: Users can provide a function — say, ten lines of Python code — and Lambda provides all of the infrastructure between an…
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Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users. Monthly paid plans now include three free users, and bill you only for additional users who actively exchange data over Tailscale (“usage-based billing”) rather than for a…
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Skip the API, ship your database
The best code is the code unwritten. Avoid building a complex API layer by sharing your database between services.
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S3 Express Is All You Need
The future of modern data infrastructure is object storage.
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How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)
One of the most asked about topics to folks working on upstream container technologies is running Podman within a container. Most of this has histo...