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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 96 posts.
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GCE vs. AWS in 2016: Why You Shouldn't Use Amazon
Foreword This story relates my experience at a typical web startup. We are running hundreds of instances on AWS, and we’ve been doing so for some time, growing at a sustained pace. Our full o…
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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi
I'm increasingly of the view that both my time and my sanity are worth more and more as the years progress. Particularly in my independent life, it really can be that black and white - if I can't work, it costs me money. Plus, I want to be happy
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How Google Is Challenging AWS
AWS seems to have a dominant position in enterprise computing, but Google is trying to change the rules to favor their inherent strengths.
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Configuring a High Interactivity SSH HoneyPot
Due to continued visitation resulting in 404s to this article it has been restored from an older, and lost, version of this blog from content at – https://web.archive.org/web/20170811222717/https://www.robertputt.co.uk/2016/11/28/learn-from-your-attackers-ssh-honeypot/ , it may be incomplete, for example images being…
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$15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean
As you might already know, I’m into containers , static configuration and self-service infrastructures . Naturally, I love Kubernetes , which I consider the most promising cluster scheduler around.
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Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
Let’s revisit Google and Amazon pricing since the AWS November 2016 Price Reduction. We’ll analyse instance costs, for various workloads and usages. All prices are given in dollars per …
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The End of the General Purpose Operating System
As interesting chat on Twitter today reminded me that not everyone is probably aware that we’re seeing a concerted attempt to dislodge the general purpose operating system from our servers.
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Docker in Production: A retort
This blog covers various issues I encounter and the (sometimes creative) solutions I apply.
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Docker in Production: A History of Failure
Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…
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Varnish Explained
Complete guide to Varnish cache: HTTP headers, VCL configuration, cache invalidation, ESI, and practical setup. Video, slides & real-world examples.
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The Ops Identity Crisis
A big theme in the keynotes and conversation during Velocity Conf in NYC a few weeks ago was the role of ops in an "ops-less" and "server-less" world. It's also been a big feature in discussions on twitter and in conversations I've had with coworkers and friends in the industry.
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EC2's most dangerous feature
A review for readers unfamiliar with this feature: Amazon IAM ( Identity and Access Management ) is a service which allows for the creation of access credentials which are limited in scope; for example, you can have keys which can read objects from Amazon S3 but cannot write any objects. IAM Roles for EC2 are a…
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Using Docker to develop and deploy Django apps
I finally managed to deploy Django in a Docker container on production! I’ve been trying to switch to a full Docker development/production model since Docker came out, but only recently did the ecosystem mature enough to allow me to easily use Docker both for development (where it excels, in my opinion) and on…
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“I just want to run a container”
"I just want to run a container!"
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An AWS Region is coming to France
Today we announce our plans to open a new AWS Region with 3 Availability Zones in France! The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.
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Upgrade your SSH keys
Upgrade to faster and more secure SSH keys. I promise a smooth transition to the use of your new keys.
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From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation
Software - shaken, not stirred
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Five Months of Kubernetes
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Who's on call?
Implementation of an on-call policy requires answering precisely these questions: who is responsible for on-call duties for an application/service, and how is that responsibility defined? More succinctly, who owns on-call?
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Hacked: Investigating an Intrusion on My Server
tl;dr I have received a nice “your server is sending spam” email on a Saturday morning, this is what happened next. As a foreword, this server is not holding critical information and his mostly used to host static content and maintain former projects. Basically this is what happens when you leave upgrade undone on…
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Docker not ready for primetime
I love Docker . It's so freakin' useful for distributing predictable runtime environments.