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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 109 posts.
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Our 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off
Backblaze is transitioning from using 4 TB hard drives to using 6 TB hard drives in the Storage Pods we will be deploying over the coming months...
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When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a black hole
When we’d spin up new machines, some would fail our health checks. There was no network traffic between these boxes and our database machines.. The ARP tables on the database boxes had cached, outdated MAC addresses from no-longer-living boxes.
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App Container Spec One Week In
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Incident Report – DDoS Attack
On Monday, December 1st, 2014, we experienced a major volumetric DDoS attack aimed at a customer's domain. Here is our full report.
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Initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale
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AWS EC2 Container Service
Earlier this year I wrote about container computing and enumerated some of the benefits that you get when you use it as the basis for a distributed application platform: consistency & fidelity, development efficiency, and operational efficiency. Because containers are lighter in weight and have less memory and…
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Aurora - New MySQL-Compatible Database Engine
We launched the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) service way back in 2009 to help you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL database in the cloud. Since that time, we have added a multitude of options to RDS including extensive console support, three additional database engines ( Oracle, SQL Server, and…
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BrowserStack Post Mortem (Shell shocked)
Official transparency report on the November 2014 BrowserStack security breach involving a legacy prototype server (Shellshock). Incident fully resolved. BrowserStack is now SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, and GDPR compliant. Trusted by 50,000+ companies.
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Deis v1.0 – Production Ready
Discover Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for secure, scalable containerized app deployment and management with fast delivery on managed Kubernetes clusters.
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Google Launches Managed Service for Running Docker Apps on Its Platform
Today, tens of thousands of developers from around the world are joining us at Google Cloud Platform Live — either in person in San Fra...
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (2010)
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions: Click Here. When we started Backblaze, our goal was to provide unlimited
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AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region
It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, this time with a new Region in Frankfurt, Germany. AWS customers in Europe can now use the new EU (Frankfurt) Region along with the existing EU (Ireland) Region for fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. You can now build multi-Region…
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New AWS Directory Service
Virtually every organization uses a directory service such as Active Directory to allow computers to join domains, list and authenticate users, and to locate and connect to printers, and other network services including SQL Server databases. A centralized directory reduces the amount of administrative work that must…
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Introducing Consul Template
Today we are releasing Consul Template, a standalone application that is packed full of amazing new features. Consul Template queries a Consul instance and updates any number of specified templates on the filesystem. As an added bonus, Consul Template can execute arbitrary commands when a template update completes.
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Docker 1.3 is out
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Terraform 0.3
We are releasing Terraform 0.3. Terraform is a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching infrastructure. Terraform 0.3 is a massive release filled with both features and a wealth of stability improvements. If you've been waiting for a strong version to try Terraform, this is the version to…
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Docker and Microsoft partner to drive adoption of distributed applications
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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EC2 Maintenance Update II
I’d like to give you an update on the EC2 Maintenance announcement that I posted last week. Late yesterday (September 30th), we completed a reboot of less than 10% of the EC2 fleet to protect you from any security risks associated with the Xen Security Advisory (XSA-108). This Xen Security Advisory was embargoed until…
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