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Today's Outage Post Mortem
This morning at 09:47 UTC CloudFlare effectively dropped off the Internet. The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy.
New kernel.org
If you are a developer located around Beijing, or if your connection to Beijing is faster and more reliable than to locations outside of China, then you may benefit from the new git.kernel.org mirror kindly provided by Code Aurora Forum at https://kernel.source.codeaurora.cn/ . This is …
Stack Exchange’s Colocation Move: Lessons Learned
Moving about 35 servers, something like 2000 pounds of computer hardware 50 blocks, doesn’t seem like that big of a thing. However, in our geek microcosm moving to a new colocation facility was a year long adventure with lessons learned, arguments, designs and redesigns, a hurricane, and many weekends of preparation…
180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update
Over the past couple of years Heroku customers have occasionally reported unexplained latency on Heroku. There are many causes of latency—some of them have
Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance
Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want
Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads
Used in conjunction, NginX and Node.JS are the perfect partnership for high-throughput web applications. They’re both built using event-driven design...
Nginx Load Balancing Basics
Nginx is a powerful high performance web server with a lot of features that can help high load projects to overcome their problems. Here you can see a particular feature of Nginx that allows you to load balance the traffic across multiple external and internal(on same hardware) servers. Load
We switched to Node.js: the good and the not so good
Node.js Powered
Uses For A Message Queue
Overview We've been working with, building, and evangelizing message queues for the last year, and it's no secret that we think they're awesome. We
Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)
Today I announce the launch of HashiCorp. I am Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator and maintainer of Vagrant, and I am founding HashiCorp to drive Vagrant's development forward. Vagrant has become a trusted tool in the industry in the three years since its release, with users ranging from individuals to entire development…
Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure
From: FreeBSD Security Officer < security-officer@FreeBSD.org > To: FreeBSD Security < FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org > Bcc: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org , freebsd-security-notifications@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: secteam@FreeBSD.org Subject: Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure