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A Survival Guide for the Small Mail Server
Nowadays many companies and organizations (non-profits, units of governmental and educational institutions, etc) believe that running their own mail servers has become an impossible task, due both to the large amount of inbound spam and to the continuous attempts by spammers to send outbound spam through their mail…
Tiny Docker Operating Systems
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Backblaze Vaults: Zettabyte-Scale Cloud Storage Architecture
Backblaze Vaults are not only incredibly durable, scalable, and performant, but they dramatically improve availability and operability.
Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline
The amount of data being produced around the world is staggering and continues to grow at an exponential rate. Given this growing volume of ...
Moving all your data, 9TB edition
At GitLab B.V. we are working on an infrastructure upgrade to give more CPU power and storage space to GitLab.com. Learn more here!
Stack Overflow: How we upgrade a live data center
A few weeks ago we upgraded a lot of the core infrastructure in our New York (okay, it’s really in New Jersey now – but don’t tell anyone) data center. We love being open with everything we do (including infrastructure), and really consider it one of the best job perks we have. So here’s how and why we upgrade a data…
Using Google Cloud Pub/Sub to Connect Applications and Data Streams
Many applications need to talk to other varied, and often, distributed systems reliably and in real-time. To make sure things aren't lost in...
Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
Karojisatsu – Leaving the DevOps Community
About 7 years ago, I moved back to Atlanta. The cloud thing was just getting started and I decided to start a local cloud meetup group. One of the earlier attendees was a gentleman named Walter. Walter was one of the more passionate participants in the early days of the meetup. It turns out that…
Announcing Docker Machine Beta
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Building Microservices: Free Ebook from O’Reilly and NGINX
Explore the world of microservices with this free ebook from O'Reilly and NGINX.
Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA
Graylog is a leading centralized log management solution for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of terabytes of machine data.
End of the m0n0wall project
on this day 12 years ago, I have released the first version of m0n0wall to the public. In theory, one could still run that version - pb1 it was called - on a suitably old PC and use it to control the Internet access of a small LAN (not that it would be recommended security-wise). However, the world keeps turning, and…
App Container and Docker
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Etcd 2.0 – First Major Stable Release
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Docker 1.5: IPv6 support, read-only containers, stats, and more
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Rocket and App Container 0.2.0 Release
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
What is the best hard drive?
Check out the latest Hard Drive Stats. It was one year ago that I first blogged about the failure rates of specific models of hard drives, so now is a
Auto Recovery for Amazon EC2
An important rule when building a highly available and highly reliable system is to design for failure. In other words, your design model should assume that, as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has said, “everything fails all the time.” Fortunately, modern data centers, networks, and servers are highly reliable, and failures…
How We Failed at OpenStack
Use Equinix Fabric to establish direct, low-latency connections to a variety of services providers.
DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.