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Why we use our own hardware
Why we use our own hardware and what the tradeoffs and costs look like
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Introducing S2
Introducing S2, a serverless stream store that makes durable real-time streams feel as simple and scalable as object storage.
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Trillium TPU Is GA
Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is now GA, delivering enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness for AI workloads.
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Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release
The Electric sync engine is now in BETA. If you haven't checked out Electric recently, it's a great time to take another look.
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Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain
Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK (@ryotkak ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc. A few days ago, I was upgrading my home lab network, and I decided to upgrade the OpenWrt on my router.1 After accessing the LuCI, which is the web interface of OpenWrt, I noticed that there is a section called Attended Sysupgrade…
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Ukraine's three nuclear power plants have restored electricity production
Ukraine’s three operating nuclear power plants (NPPs) have largely restored their electricity production after sharply reducing output last week as a precautionary step due to renewed attacks on the country’s increasingly fragile energy grid, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy…
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Static IPs for Serverless Containers
Now your Modal containers around the world can have static outbound IPs. Featuring WireGuard, policy-based routing, and NAT.
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Prometheus 3.0
An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.
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Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
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Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object
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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half
A rack-scale design that drives data center power efficiency.
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The Practical Guide to Scaling Django
Most Django scaling guides focus on theoretical maximums. But real scaling isn't about handling hypothetical millions of users - it's about systematically eliminating bottlenecks as you grow. Here's how to do it right, based on patterns that work in production.
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OpenMP 6.0
The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP language.
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Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF
Contribute to CNCF: Simplify application management with Red Hat's Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, and more
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SST: Container Support
SST now natively supports building containerized applications.
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Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge
Deploy JavaScript apps globally with bunny.net's Edge Scripting. Instant scalability, seamless GitHub integration, and blazing-fast performance at the edge.
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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
Learn how WebSockets caused Recall.ai's AWS bill to spike $1M and what architectural changes the team made to lower the cost.
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Monorepo – Our Experience
Nine months ago, we switched to a monorepo. Here's a detailed look at what led to the change, how we approached it, and what the experience has been like.
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We're Leaving Kubernetes
We are moving away from Kubernetes for cloud development environments after 6 years of experience at scale. Learn about Gitpod Flex and our new approach to development infrastructure for developers.
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SSH Remoting
From the Zed Blog: Zed can now be used to edit over SSH.
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Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels
At Prisma, we believe that deploying a database should be as simple as adding a new page in Notion. Today, we are excited to share the first milestone towards this vision: Prisma Postgres® gives developers an always-on database with pay-as-you-go pricing, thanks to our unique architecture design.
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Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
Access for Infrastructure, BastionZero’s integration into Cloudflare One, will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls to their servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the first available feature of this integration.
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.
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PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One
What is Streaming replication in PostgreSQL?Streaming replication in PostgreSQL is an efficient method for maintaining a near real-time replica of a primary database on one or more standby servers.The primary server continuously sends data to replica
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Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
Explore Tandem NonStop architecture principles and their relevance to high availability in software systems like Elixir, Gleam, and Erlang.
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European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware
ESET Research analyzed two separate toolsets for breaching air-gapped systems, used by a cyberespionage threat actor known as GoldenJackal.
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Good Retry, Bad Retry
Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.