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GitLab 12.5
GitLab release announcements and feature highlights.
Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes
In this deep-dive, we identified and worked through sporadic latency issues with services running on Kubernetes in our environment.
Postmortem of database outage of January 31
Postmortem on the database outage of January 31 2017 with the lessons we learned.
Podman and Buildah for Docker Users
What docker users need to know to move from Docker to Podman and Buildah and the advantages of doing so. Developers/operators can easily move to Podman, do all the fun tasks that they are familiar
Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture
How Docker 19.03 makes it simple to build images for most hardware platforms.
Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
Remember Clusterman? Now It's Open-Source, and Supports Kubernetes Too! David R. Morrison, Compute Infra Tech Lead Nov 11, 2019 Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post showing off some...
The Consul outage that never happened
Sometimes a good plan is the best tool for the job.
Helm (the Kubernetes package manager) 3.0.0 has been released
The Helm Team is proud to announce the first stable release of Helm 3.
Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry
Red Hat introduces the open sourcing of Project Quay, the upstream project representing the code that powers Red Hat Quay and Quay.io.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
A problem that would have been discovered in the future would now be captured by the SMART stats when the process reads that section of disk today.
Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust
Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.
We built network isolation for 1500 services
We've been working on isolating the 1,500 services that power Monzo. The sheer size and complexity of our platform made this difficult. But by protecting us against compromised services, it makes Monzo more secure.
DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
Monzo: How our security team handle secrets
We recently designed a new system to manage secret information safely – from the keys that we use to sign your Mastercard transactions, to credentials for external services.
Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
If you work in a newsroom, there’s a good chance you work with colleagues on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more. Google Workspace software is simple and powerful. But anyone working in a newsroom has probably asked themselves: What can Google see? What about our most sensitive conversations and documents? What…
Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
You now have the ability to keep updated, changed, and even deleted files in your backups forever by extending version history.
Scribe: Transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing
Our hardware infrastructure comprises millions of machines, all of which generate logs that we need to process, store, and serve. The total size of these logs is several petabytes every hour. The o…
Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will…
.NET Core gRPC
The .NET team at Microsoft has been working in close collaboration with the gRPC team since November 2018 on a new fully managed implementation of gRPC for .NET Core. We’re pleased to announce that grpc-dotnet is now available with .NET Core 3.0 today! How to get it? grpc-dotnet packages have just been released to…
Kubernetes 1.16
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha. Major ThemesCustom resourcesCRDs are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and…
The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
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AWS Fargate Deep Dive
AWS Fargate is a serverless technology which lets you run your containers in the cloud without having to worry about the operational overhead of managing the infrastructure. In this article, we talk about what Fargate is and how it works under the hood. We also try to compare it to other AWS Services like Lambda and…
DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
Explore the history of DevOps and its impact on the tech industry from the perspective of a long-time software engineer and developer advocate.
Maesh, a Lightweight and Simpler Service Mesh
We are proud to introduce Maesh, Containous’ new service mesh designed from the ground up to be straightforward, easy to install and easy to use...
Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…