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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. 41 posts.
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Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix
Nix users value its isolated, repeatable builds and simple sharing of development environments. Nix makes it easy to go back in time and rebuild software from years ago without issue.
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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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How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
A guide to self-hosting your email on FreeBSD using Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, and LDAP.
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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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The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server
NTP on a Raspberry-Pi - documents configuring a Raspberry Pi for headless operation, configuring NTP for remote monitoring, adding a GPS/PSS device (two discussed), and how well NTP performs in WAN-only, LAN, and PPS configurations.
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Why you should not use Google Cloud
FINAL UPDATE (25-March-2022): Because of this article, we often keep getting asked if we still use GCP and if we would recommend it to…
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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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Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps
When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone executables (e.g. C/C++, COBOL), or else ran in an interpreter (e.g. Perl, Tcl). For many programmers, Java’s need for both a bytecode compiler and a runtime interpreter was a shift in thought. The compilation model…
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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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OpenBSD on a Laptop
A guide to a secure and streamlined installation of OpenBSD 6.4 on a laptop.