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Free Postgres databases for small projects
Announcing free Postgres storage on Fly.io.
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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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MicroShift
MicroShift has been specifically designed for edge computing use cases, with a goal of fitting in the limited storage capacity of field-deployed devices that can be embedded into a variety of appliances such as cars, factory lines, airplanes or even satellites.
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Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
A day early, the Biden Administration has quietly launched the new website that allows households to order four COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.
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Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines
Cutting-edge cyber security research from NCC Group. Find public reports, technical advisories, analyses, & other novel insights from our global experts.
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AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connections
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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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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
How the heck do we run a massively popular website and asset resource while being funded primarily by donations?
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Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic
Cinia agreed to start a project to build a new subsea cable in the Arctic with Alaskan company Far North Digital.
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Using an ETL framework vs. writing yet another ETL script
Writing an ETL script is easy; making it production-ready and maintainable is much harder. Why to use an open-source EL(T) framework instead.
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Widespread exploitation of critical remote code execution in Apache Log4j
On December 10, 2021, Apache released a fix for CVE-2021-44228, a critical RCE vulnerability affecting Log4j that is being exploited in the wild.
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HashiCorp IPO today
As we officially enter the public markets, we plan to continue to do what we think we do best: solving problems for our end users.
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eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars
eBPF Service Mesh - How we can build an eBPF-based service mesh in the kernel to replace the complex sidecar model
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Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
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Analog Devices Expands over 1000 Linux Device Drivers to Support Development
Find the latest news, announcements and media resources from Analog Devices.
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Making Websites Small
Practical notes on smaller websites: reduce page weight, optimize images, and simplify frontend dependencies.
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Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb
See how Honeycomb reduced Kafka cost by a total of 87% per megabyte/sec of throughput w/ AWS’s new Amazon EC2 lm4gn instance family and Confluent Tiered Storage.
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AWS Graviton 3 Instances
We announced the first generation AWS-designed Graviton processor in late 2018, and followed it up with the second generation Graviton2 a year later. Today, AWS customers make use of twelve different Graviton2-powered instances including the new X2gd instances that are designed for memory-intensive workloads. All…
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Will Nix Overtake Docker?
Nix and Docker both tackle the works-on-my-machine problem, but in different ways. A practical comparison of their approaches to reproducible environments.
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I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
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AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
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AWS free tier data transfer expansion
The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum. Our intent is to make […]
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IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
In June 2021, we announced our continued commitment and innovation towards the enablement of IPv6 on AWS. Today, we take a monumental step forward with the ability to create an IPv6-only architecture on AWS. With this launch, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to create IPv6-only subnets in your…