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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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Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge
Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge.
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GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age
Why CPU Knowledge Is No Longer Enough In today's AI age, the majority of developers train in the CPU way. This knowledge has been part of our academics as well, so it's obvious to think and problem-solve in a CPU-oriented way. However, the problem with CPUs is that they rely
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Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training
We used Multislice Training to run the world’s largest LLM distributed training job on a compute cluster of 50,944 Cloud TPU v5e chips.
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Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)
The filling of underground heat caverns in Mustikkamaa with water has been completed this week, and the use of the heat caverns for heating homes in Helsinki is a step closer.
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Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM
We recently announced the completion of our migration to remove all traces of disks in use on our VPN infrastructure.
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Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details
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Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
Podman Desktop 1.5 has been released!
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A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
Treezor migrated a legacy PHP application from servers to serverless on AWS Lambda. They gained increased scalability, faster response times and fewer production incidents.
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eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation
This blog shares the results of our performance tests creating OpenTelemetry traces with eBPF-based automatic instrumentation vs traditional instrumentation
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Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io
Why we migrated OpenStatus' backend from Vercel to Fly.io using Hono and Bun — the challenges, performance gains, and lessons from the migration.
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Kubernetes releases ingress2gateway tool for upcoming GA of Gateway API
Update: Ingress2Gateway v1.0 is now available! Today we are releasing ingress2gateway, a tool that can help you migrate from Ingress to Gateway API. Gateway API is just weeks away from graduating to GA, if you haven't upgraded yet, now's the time to think about it! BackgroundIn the ever-evolving world of Kubernetes…
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Kubernetes and Kernel Panics
How Netflix’s Container Platform Connects Linux Kernel Panics to Pods
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Microsoft is failing to deliver emails that mention newclimate.org
Since 17 October, to our knowledge any email with the NewClimate URL (newclimate dot org) in the email body, link, signature, reply header or contained anywhere in an attachment is unjustifiably quarantined by Microsoft email servers without any notice, regardless of who sends or receives the email.
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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering
Learn about the eleven lessons, from two decades, shared by site reliability engineers at Google, essential SRE lessons and core principles of SRE.
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
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Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore
For years, macOS upgrades have broken Nix. We've updated the Determinate Nix Installer to ensure that this no longer happens, eliminating yet another annoyance for macOS users.
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Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic
Learn how to use Apache Kafka as a buffer between OpenTelemetry Collectors for a scalable multi-collector pipeline, with YAML configuration examples.
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Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos
Each and every week, Uber’s 4,500 stateless microservices are deployed more than 100,000 times by 4,000 engineers and many autonomous systems. These services are developed, deployed, and operated by hundreds of individual teams working independently across the globe. The services vary in size, shape, and…
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Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees
Use Sippy to incrementally migrate data from S3 to R2 as it’s requested and avoid migration-specific egress fees
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OpenWrt 23.05
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HAProxy is not affected by the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack
HAProxy products are unaffected by CVE-2023-44487, which could allow a DoS attack against web servers, reverse proxies, and more. Stay tuned for updates.
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Self-Hosting (Almost) All the Way Down [video]
I will demonstrate FPGA-based 64-bit RISC-V computer, capable of booting and running the riscv64 port of Fedora. Using Free/Libre packages available as part of the Fedora repositories, this machine is capable of recompiling not only its own software (e.g., kernel, glibc, gcc), but also its own gateware (i.e., FPGA…
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The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
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Scaling Knative to 100K+ Webapps
Render scaled its Knative infrastructure to handle 100k+ web apps, optimizing Kubernetes for free-tier services and reducing CPU usage to improve network performance.