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Today, during my keynote at the 2016 USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2016 ), I’ll be talking about our goal to work with industry and academia to develop new lines of disks that are a better fit for data centers supporting cloud-based storage services. We're also releasing a white paper on the…
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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 …
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.
A month or two ago, I decided to remove Varnish from my site and replace it with Nginx's built-in caching system . I was already using Nginx to proxy to my Python sites, so getting rid of Varnish meant one less thing to fiddle with. I spent a few days reading up on how to configure Nginx's cache and overhauling the…
Google Cloud Platform brings you lots of ways to store, access and archive your data, including Google Cloud Storage , DataStore and BigQuery . In some cases, there's a need to be able to access a POSIX compatible shared file system across a fleet of your cloud instances. To support these use cases with a robust scale…
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away , and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a ve...
This is #1 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture. Welcome.Previous post (#0): Stack Overflow: A Technical DeconstructionNext post...
Posted by Noah Fiedel, Software EngineerMachine learning powers many Google product features, from speech recognition in the Google app to Smart Re...
In 2015 we ran 56,224 hard drives in our datacenter. In this post we review the reliability of the Seagate, HGST, Toshiba, and Western Digital drives.
The comments around the last OpenSSH issue ( CVE 2016-0777 , you must read excellent Qualys’ analysis if you’re interested with the details), I noticed that many people were not aware of some basic features of OpenSSH. I will attempt to give a few advises, prioritized in feasibility order, and with graphical…
Discover why Docker is transitioning to Alpine Linux. Learn about the benefits of smaller, faster, and more secure containers and why you should switch your Docker images to Alpine.
The team at InfluxData is excited to announce the stable version of InfluxDB 0.10! Read about it here and see what are the new changes!
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Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0. This post investigates performance profiling of Unikernels, and with a proof of concept shows that with a little work a lot of observability is possible.
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