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In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 50 posts.
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Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day
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37signals Leaves the Cloud
Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's cloud. We've run on bare virtual machines, we've run on Kubernetes. We've seen all the cloud has to offer, and tried…
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I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io
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UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
The Morocco – UK Power Project, Xlinks’ most publicised venture, is designed to deliver 8% of Great Britain’s current electricity needs (3.6GW of clean, reliable power), which is enough for seven million homes.
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Cloud Computing Without Containers: Hello Isolates
We have a cloud computing platform called Workers. Unlike essentially every other cloud computing platform I know of, it doesn’t use containers or virtual machines. We believe that is the future of Serverless and cloud computing in general, and I’ll try to convince you why.
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D1: Our SQL database
Today, we’re excited to announce D1, Cloudflare’s first SQL database, designed for Cloudflare Workers
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If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
SSH has some pretty gnarly issues when it comes to usability, operability, and security. The good news is this is all easy to fix. SSH is ubiquitous. It’s the de-facto solution for remote administration of *nix systems. SSH certificate authentication makes SSH easier to use, easier to operate, and more secure.
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Radicale v3 Documentation
Free and Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server
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Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
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Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta
Diskless infrastructure using stboot (in beta) is now available on a pair of WireGuard servers in Sweden.
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Husky, Datadog's Third-Generation Event Store
Husky is an unbundled, distributed, schemaless, vectorized column store. Here’s how we built it—and why.
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Please Use ZFS with ECC Memory (2014)
In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a NAS. I would argue that if you do not use ECC memory, it's reasonable to also forgo on ZFS altogether and use any (legacy) file system that suits your needs.
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Eliminating Toil
Learn what toil is in SRE, how it affects operational work, and why minimizing it is crucial for efficiency and morale.
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An update on recent service disruptions
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.
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How our free plan stays free
Tailscale’s free plan is free because we keep our scaling costs low relative to typical SaaS companies. I know, it sounds too good to be true. Let’s see some details.
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LiteFS
We are building a distributed file system for your SQLite databases. Kinda weird, huh?
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Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers
This incident remains the top priority for my engineering team and for our entire company.
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We're going to need a lot of solar panels
The team at Terraform Industries is now 11 people working towards a near term future where atmospheric CO2, much of it centuries of unpriced industrial waste, becomes the preferred default source o…
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Tailscale Funnel
Public access to your device—without the security risks. Tailscale Funnel makes exposing services to the internet safe & simple.
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How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
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Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop 4.6 for Mac
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
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35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
Have you ever wondered about the performance delta between Caddy and Nginx? Wonder no more.
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A Foolish Consistency: Consul at Fly.io
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Free Postgres databases for small projects
Announcing free Postgres storage on Fly.io.
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Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown
A head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel's network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK.
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The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open-source
As the first announcement of Platform Week, today Cloudflare is announcing the open sourcing of the Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license