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New lower Azure pricing
As part of our continued commitment to deliver Azure to customers at the best possible prices, effective October 1st, we are lowering prices on many of our most popular virtual machines (VMs).
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…
“I just want to run a container”
"I just want to run a container!"
DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40%
Reducing energy usage has been a major focus for us over the past 10 years: we have built our own super-efficient servers at Google, invented more efficient ways to cool our data centres and invested heavily in green energy sources, with the goal of being powered 100 percent by renewable energy.
New P2 Instance Type for Amazon EC2 – Up to 16 GPUs
I like to watch long-term technology and business trends and watch as they shape the products and services that I get to use and to write about. As I was preparing to write today’s post, three such trends came to mind: Moore’s Law – Coined in 1965, Moore’s Law postulates that the number of transistors […]
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.
Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
We would like to introduce you to our next generation command-line tools for Azure: Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview.
Introducing Docker for Windows Server 2016
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Upgrade your SSH keys
Upgrade to faster and more secure SSH keys. I promise a smooth transition to the use of your new keys.
From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation
Software - shaken, not stirred
All quiet in the IPv4 Internet?
Guest Post: A new study measures 1.2 billion unique IPv4 addresses to provide a glimpse of what IPv4 usage activity looks like.
Making ASP.NET apps first-class citizens on Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is known for many things: big data, machine learning and the global infrastructure that powers Google. What you might not know is how well we support applications built on ASP.NET, the open-source web application framework developed by Microsoft. Let’s change that right now.
Consul 0.7
We are excited to release Consul 0.7, a major update with many new features and improvements. This release focused on making it easier to operate Consul clusters, and built key foundations for continued operational improvements in future releases. Consul is a modern datacenter runtime that provides service discovery…
Five Months of Kubernetes
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Announcing Envoy: C++ L7 proxy and communication bus
Today we are incredibly excited to open source Envoy, our high performance C++ distributed proxy and communication bus designed for large…
Scalable and secure access with SSH
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Rkt reaches 1.14.0
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next
Today were excited to announce the release of the open source time series database, InfluxDB 1.0 and our commercial offering, InfluxEnterprise.
Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
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?
Apache Spark Scale: A 60 TB+ production use case
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Infrastructure for Deep Learning
Deep learning is an empirical science, and the quality of a group’s infrastructure is a multiplier on progress. Fortunately, today’s open-source ecosystem makes it possible for anyone to build great deep learning infrastructure.
Hardening Compiler Flags for NixOS
In the past year some Mayflower colleagues have started using and contributing to NixOS, a purely functional GNU/Linux distribution that combines package and configuration management. We decided that we would give it a try in production but stumbled upon some issues that had to be resolved first. We have added new…
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…