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Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB
Learn how to scale IAM globally. Ory provides secure multi-region identity solutions.
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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
Chances are you probably had a strong reaction to the title of this post. In our experience, Kafka is one of the most polarizing technologies in the data space. Some people hate it, some people swear by it, but almost every technology company uses it.
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Virtualizing development environments in 2023
The limits of two modern virtualization methods: containers and virtual machines.
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Cookbook: Finetuning Llama 2 in your own cloud environment, privately
An operational guide on finetuning Llama 2, ready for commercial use.
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Faster filesystem access with Directfs
Directfs is now the default in runsc. This feature gives gVisor’s application kernel (the Sentry) secure direct access to the container filesystem, avoiding expensive round trips to the filesystem gofer. Learn more about this feature in the following blog that was originally posted on Google Open Source Blog .
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Bun v0.7.0
vite dev support, Workers, bun --smol, WebSocket.ping(), structuredClone(), serialize() and better Node.js compatibility
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Kraken Technologies: How we organise our large Python monolith
By David Seddon from Kraken Technologies. Hi, I’m David, a Python developer at Kraken Technologies. I work on Kraken: a Python application which has, at last count, 27,637 modules. Yes, you read that right: nearly 28k separate Python files - not including tests. I do this along with 400
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The Nano ESP32
The Nano ESP32 introduces a new microcontroller architecture to the Nano family. The Nano ESP32 embraces one of the favorite IoT standards.
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Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
Podman Desktop 1.2 has been released!
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The future of AlmaLinux
It’s been a whirlwind few weeks here at AlmaLinux, and I’m elated to be able to finally share this update. The future of AlmaLinux OSIn case you missed it, Red Hat announced they will no longer be providing the means for downstream clones to continue to be 1:1 binary copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Very…
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GitHub merge queue is generally available
Supercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue.
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OpenTTD's Infrastructure in 2023
This post is part of a two-part series, of which this is the first. In this post, we go a bit into the infrastructure that runs OpenTTD, from BaNaNaS to our main website. The second post will explain a bit about the migration we just did to get to this infrastructure.
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Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates would be trusted, even while our own ISRG Root X1…
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We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Firecracker is not the best choice for all kinds of workloads.
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Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to access the latest compute resources, consistently support worldwide customers, and optimize cost. However…
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Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem
A partial network outage occurred at Fastmail on June 30th, 2023. Most did not notice, but it was severe for the directly affected 3-5% of our customers.
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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LXD is now under Canonical
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
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A PyTorch Approach to ML Infrastructure
Distribute and run AI workloads on Kubernetes magically in Python, like PyTorch for ML infra. - run-house/kubetorch
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The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows
Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible.
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Working with Docker containers with the dexec bash script
I wrote a simple dexec script to make running commands through Docker containers less clunky. I'll show you what dexec is and how to use it!
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How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs
Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.
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Review of Hetzner ARM64 servers and experience of WebP cloud services on them
TL；DR： Hetzner ARM64 performs very well, with the 4-core CAX21 (ARM64, 4 cores, 8GB RAM) machine only being 8% slower in WebP conversion speed compared to the 3-core CPX21 (AMD64, 3 cores, 4GB RAM), while the price difference between the two is 14% (8.40 USD/mo vs 9.76 USD/mo). Additionally, the CAX21 offers twice the…
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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
Learn how Nix Flakes improve the composability and reproducibility of builds in Nix and Devbox.
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DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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The next generation of serverless
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories
Trickest workflow parses 15TB of GitHub Archive logs and extracts public details for every user and repository back to 2015.
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Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
Achieving PostgreSQL high availability is vital for application uptime. Explore popular HA deployment options to make an informed choice that fits your needs.