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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 185 posts.
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Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
When our CTO said "I'll upgrade your MacBook if you can prove it's worthwhile", we embarked on a journey including (re)building a Go hot-reloader, instrumenting developer builds, analyzing compiler performance, and feeding an AI model the data until we had an answer.
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Indexing a billion pages
It’s two years since we launched Mwmbl, the open source, non-profit search engine, on Boxing Day 2021. A good time to take stock of where we are and where we’re going. We’ve indexed over 100 million pages Thanks to our volunteers, who crawl the web using the Firefox extension and command line script, we’re crawling up…
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Cisco to acquire Isovalent
Cisco acquires Isovalent, founded by creators of eBPF and the team behind Cilium and Tetragon, the leading cloud native solutions leveraging eBPF technology.
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It's not always DNS, unless it is
Our journey investigating a months-long issue and what we learned from it
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How to Escape a Container
Panoptica by Outshift delivers advanced cloud-native security insights to help teams protect modern applications and infrastructure at scale.
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Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
Podman Desktop 1.6 has been released!
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Fly Kubernetes
Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.
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Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io
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Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
With Ubicloud PostgreSQL, we are releasing an open and managed PostgreSQL, and cutting your cloud database spend by 3x.
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Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager
Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.
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Choose your own IP
Gain full control over IP address allocation in your Tailscale network, enabling efficient management and compatibility with other systems.
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Rethinking serverless with FLAME
Imagine if you could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a temporary copy of your app
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GCP Incidents
Over the last 18 months we've had more than a handful of issues with Google Cloud. The incidents, in detail, ahead of our move off Google.
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Deno Cron
`Deno.cron` allows you to easily create scheduled jobs and is available on Deno Deploy. Here's how it works.
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S3 Express Is All You Need
The future of modern data infrastructure is object storage.
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Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine
Why is Windmill the fastest self-hostable workflow engine and job processing framework
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
Explore Backblaze's Q3 2023 hard drive stats, revealing insights on 259,533 HDDs, failure rates, and data center performance for enhanced reliability.
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Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge
Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge.
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GPU Survival Toolkit for the AI age
Why CPU Knowledge Is No Longer Enough In today's AI age, the majority of developers train in the CPU way. This knowledge has been part of our academics as well, so it's obvious to think and problem-solve in a CPU-oriented way. However, the problem with CPUs is that they rely
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Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training
We used Multislice Training to run the world’s largest LLM distributed training job on a compute cluster of 50,944 Cloud TPU v5e chips.
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Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)
The filling of underground heat caverns in Mustikkamaa with water has been completed this week, and the use of the heat caverns for heating homes in Helsinki is a step closer.
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Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM
We recently announced the completion of our migration to remove all traces of disks in use on our VPN infrastructure.
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Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details