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Learn Docker by building a Microservice
Dave Kerr, partner and Head of Engineering at QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey & Company. Writing on software engineering and agentic AI.
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So You Wanna Go On-Prem
If you run a successful SaaS platform, at some point someone is going to come to you with the question: can I run it myself? If you’re considering offering a private version of your SaaS, this post might be for you.
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Powering the Python Package Index
The Python Package Index, or as most call it “PyPI” is a central part of the ecosystem of Python. It serves as a central registry of names, helping to prevent collision between different projects as well as the default repository that most Python users go to when looking for software. Though it has its issues (of…
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Cache-Control: immutable
About one year ago our friends at Facebook brought an interesting issue to the IETF HTTP Working Group - a lot (20%!) of their transaction...
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Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
This is #3 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#2): Stack Overflow: The Hardware - 2016 EditionWe’ve talked abou...
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Docker for Mac Beta Review
I finally got access to the Docker For Mac beta. My initial impressions are extremely positive. With Docker packaged so well for end users…
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Making 1M requests with Python-aiohttp
In this post I’d like to test limits of python aiohttp and check its performance in terms of requests per minute. Everyone knows that asynchronous code perf...
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Lessons from Building a Node App in Docker
Here are some tips and tricks that I learned the hard way when developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker.
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Challenges of micro-service deployments
I recently took part in a panel discussion discussing continuous delivery of micro-services hosted by ElectricCloud with Daniel Rolnick, Darko Fabijan and An...
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Backing up 18 years in 8 hours
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book
The book starts with a story about a time Margaret Hamilton brought her young daughter with her to NASA, back in the days of the Apollo program. During a simulation mission, her daughter caused the mission to crash by pressing some keys that caused a prelaunch program to run during the simulated mission. Hamilton…
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AWS Lambda: a few years of advancement and we are back to stored procedures
Serverless computing is the new buzzword. AWS describes Lambda (their implementation of Serverless) as the way how you’ll do things post containers. Go figure …
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Ubuntu on Windows
Update: Here's how to get started using Ubuntu on Windows See also Scott Hanselman's blog here I'm in San Francisco this week, attendin...
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Why You Should Use Tumbleweed
People often ask me why they should use openSUSE Tumbleweed and how it compares to other distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu. The fact is Tumbleweed is actually rather hard, if not impossible to compare to Linux distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu.
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Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition
This is #2 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#1): Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 EditionNext post (#3...
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LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD
Stéphane Graber's website -
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Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
On March 14, 2016 it has been 10 years since the launch of Amazon S3, the first AWS service. Here are some lessons learned in those 10 years
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Ansible vs. Chef (2015)
I wrote an earlier post about evaluating Ansible as an alternative to Chef. So after spending many years with Chef, I’ve found that Ansible is a lot easier to manage with startups. It’s easier to train developers, it’s easier to manage inventory and orchestration, and it works reasonably well on the scale of thousands…
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How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
Two weeks ago, Spotify announced it was migrating from its own datacentres to Google Cloud Platform.
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How to Deploy Software
Things Zach Holman said.
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Why We Chose Kubernetes
A couple of months ago I set out to investigate some orchestration tools for Docker containers. I.e. something that would help us schedule Docker containers onto nodes in a cluster and make sure that our services stays up in case of various failures. But let’s start at the beginning, why would we need this in the…
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Distribution packages considered insecure
If you ever have run a Linux-based operating system you are probably aware of the way that software is usually distributed on them: Using a software repository. Repositories are great for numerous …
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301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)
Best practice has it that when you move content around for whatever good reasons you have that you should do it using a 301 redirect.