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Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture
Backblaze Vaults are not only incredibly durable, scalable, and performant, but they dramatically improve availability and operability.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 24 posts.
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Docker Containers on the Desktop
How to run docker containers on your desktop.
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Amazon Web Services in Plain English
It's named what? Figure out what Amazon Web Services should actually have been called.
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Show HN: Cloud Storage with ZFS send and receive over SSH
rsync.net offers secure cloud storage on an open standards ZFS and SSH platform for offsite backup and disaster recovery
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Understanding Container Reuse in AWS Lambda
Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda AWS Lambda functions execute in a container (sandbox) that isolates them from other functions and provides the resources, such as memory, specified in the function’s configuration. In this article we discuss how Lambda creates and reuses these sandboxes, and the impact of those policies on the…
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Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage system
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Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS
My colleague Mingxue Zhao sent me a guest post designed to make sure that you are aware of an important time / clock issue. Note: This post was first published on May 18, 2015. We made some important additions and corrections on May 25, 2015. — Jeff; The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) […]
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Vault – A tool for managing secrets
Vault is a platform for centralized secrets management, encryption as a service, and identity-based access.
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Introducing Docker Content Trust
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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How we ended up with microservices
Microservices are a thing these days.
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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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Introducing AWS WAF
AWS WAF is a managed cloud web application firewall (WAF) service that protects websites, APIs, and applications from bots, exploits, and layer 7 events. Deploy scalable, enterprise-grade WAF solutions with global protection.
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What’s new in HAProxy 1.6
13th of October 2015, Willy Terrau announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development. A total of 1156 commits from 59 people were committed.
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Moving all your data, 9TB edition
At GitLab B.V. we are working on an infrastructure upgrade to give more CPU power and storage space to GitLab.com. Learn more here!