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The Practical Guide to Scaling Django
Most Django scaling guides focus on theoretical maximums. But real scaling isn't about handling hypothetical millions of users - it's about systematically eliminating bottlenecks as you grow. Here's how to do it right, based on patterns that work in production.
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OpenMP 6.0
The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP language.
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Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF
Contribute to CNCF: Simplify application management with Red Hat's Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, and more
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SST: Container Support
SST now natively supports building containerized applications.
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Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge
Deploy JavaScript apps globally with bunny.net's Edge Scripting. Instant scalability, seamless GitHub integration, and blazing-fast performance at the edge.
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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
Learn how WebSockets caused Recall.ai's AWS bill to spike $1M and what architectural changes the team made to lower the cost.
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Monorepo – Our Experience
Nine months ago, we switched to a monorepo. Here's a detailed look at what led to the change, how we approached it, and what the experience has been like.
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We're Leaving Kubernetes
We are moving away from Kubernetes for cloud development environments after 6 years of experience at scale. Learn about Gitpod Flex and our new approach to development infrastructure for developers.
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SSH Remoting
From the Zed Blog: Zed can now be used to edit over SSH.
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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.
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Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
Access for Infrastructure, BastionZero’s integration into Cloudflare One, will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls to their servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the first available feature of this integration.
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.
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PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One
What is Streaming replication in PostgreSQL?Streaming replication in PostgreSQL is an efficient method for maintaining a near real-time replica of a primary database on one or more standby servers.The primary server continuously sends data to replica
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Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
Explore Tandem NonStop architecture principles and their relevance to high availability in software systems like Elixir, Gleam, and Erlang.
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European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware
ESET Research analyzed two separate toolsets for breaching air-gapped systems, used by a cyberespionage threat actor known as GoldenJackal.
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Good Retry, Bad Retry
Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.
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How we built ngrok's data platform
At ngrok, we manage a ~100TiB, 500+ table data lake, managed by a very small team. Here's a look at how we built it and what unique challenges we solved.
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Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here's an early look
We’ve been working on something new — a platform for running containers across Cloudflare’s network. We already use it in production, for AI inference and more. Today we want to share an early look at how it’s built, why we built it, and how we use it ourselves.
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Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?
Earlier this year, a user at Practical ZFS asked a deceptively simple question: I have a Proxmox pool of three four-wide RAIDz1 vdevs. Whenever my VM is running, all twelve... Read More
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Support for IPv6
You can now connect to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage via IPv6. Here's the story of how we deployed it and why that matters for you.
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OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy
In this post, we explore how the OpenTelemetry project has carried out its vision for vendor neutrality in the observability space.
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The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases
Time series databases are essential tools in any software engineer’s toolbelt. Their development has been shaped by user needs and countless open source contributors, leading to the healthy ecosystem of options we see today. In this article, you’ll see how time series databases came about, and why so many are open…
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Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF
By Jose Fernandez, Sebastien Dabdoub, Jason Koch, Artem Tkachuk
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Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide
AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets are a popular storage service used by software companies and organizations to store public as well as sensitive data. However, the implementation of this servic...
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Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream
Trigger HTTP webhooks on every INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE in PostgreSQL. Open-source CDC setup with pgstream, no polling required.
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Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen
Researchers at ETH Zurich are using iron to store hydrogen safely and for long periods. In the future, this technology could be used for seasonal energy storage.