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Living with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures
Lessons learned, observations and reflections
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How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers
As a bank, we have a lot of secrets we need to protect to keep our customers and ourselves safe. These include private keys that only we know, which we use to digitally sign requests as coming from us (sort of like a private password). These private keys are super important and are used all over Monzo and when…
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Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
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Durable Objects now Generally Available
Today, we’re announcing that Durable Objects are generally available and production-ready for you to use!
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Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
Earlier this week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked just below 2 Tbps — the largest we’ve seen to date.
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We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
During COVID we experienced rapid growth in the amount of data we ingest. This post details some of the problems this caused us and how we solved them.
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Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool
The new on-call management tool is available in beta preview for Grafana Cloud users with both free and paid plans.
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Simple SSH Security
Simple SSH Security Within a couple of minutes you can improve your SSH security significantly.
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Amazon Time Sync Service
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Time Sync Service now makes it easier to generate and compare timestamps
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An Update on Our Outage
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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Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments
We compare NGINX performance in bare-metal and virtualized (hypervisor) environments, finding a small but measurable performance cost for hypervisors. We also find that performance in Kubernetes environments is worse for network-bound but not CPU-bound operations.
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Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with the threat actor tracked as NOBELIUM, attempting to gain access to downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT services organizations.
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Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
Vantage users can now add a Slack webhook to their Vantage account and receive daily, weekly or monthly reports of their cloud costs in their team's Slack channels.
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How we built a serverless SQL database
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.
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Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
Windows 10? Or Windows 11? Well, why not Linux instead? Here are 11+ reasons to switch to the great open source operating system now.
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Ubuntu 21.10
14 October 2021: Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10 – the most productive environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices and cloud. “As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to…
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Container security best practices: Ultimate guide
Container security is critical as companies use them more often for AI workloads and cloud workloads. Learn about 17 container security best practices here.
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data.
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ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pipelines with Airflow ETL: Unveiling the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sides of the process.
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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
Cloudflare announced their exciting new object storage product, Cloudflare R2. Will they take market share?
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PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
Run PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes, and see how convenient it is to use distributed features like parallel remote Postgres queries!
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More details about the October 4 outage
Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…
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Running BGP in large-scale data centers
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol …
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services
Today, I am happy to announce the availability of AWS Cloud Control API a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to make it easy for developers to manage their AWS and third-party services. AWS delivers the broadest and deepest portfolio of cloud services. Builders leverage these to…