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Zero-Downtime Kubernetes Deployments on AWS with EKS
Zero-downtime deployments on Kubernetes on AWS EKS utilizing Pod Readiness Gates, graceful application shutdown and termination delays with code examples in Go
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You might not need Redis
Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. But many times you do not need Redis. Here are 3 examples from my last 3 jobs.
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Git without a forge
I’ve written quite a lot of free software in my life. Most of it was from scratch: projects I started myself. So I get to choose where to host them – or rather, I have to choose where to host them.
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Tailscale is pretty useful
It's probably old news for most, but I've recently started using Tailscale and wanted to share my experience with it.
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Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
Infrastructure as code, but actually
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Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
Notes from a backend dev who builds and runs his own infra. Go, microservices, blockchain, self-hosting, homelab projects.
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Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE
Notes on installing and netbooting Windows 11 over iSCSI
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IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI.
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Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images
TLDR: I wanted to generate an up-to-date disk image for a Rock Pi 4 using Yocto that included CUPS and Docker to both get a better understanding of Yocto …
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On Running systemd-nspawn Containers (2022)
I’d like to talk more about a container technology that I really like that I touched upon in a previous article : systemd-nspawn .
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AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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Debugging Hetzner: Uncovering failures with powerstat, sensors, and dmidecode
About a year ago, Hetzner launched the AX162 server line. It offered better price / performance than its predecessor, AX161. We were very excited to adopt it, but we soon encountered serious reliability issues. We observed that the new servers had 16 times higher annual failure rates.
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Pi-hole v6
We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP , reducing the installation footprint and boosting performance. The new API also offers server-side pagination for the query log, ensuring a faster and more responsive interface.
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Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
With OpenSSL, it’s pretty easy to generate a simple self-signed TLS certificate . Just run the following command:
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We were wrong about GPUs
Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.
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Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting
Read on to learn how we used network packet captures and BPF to debug web server performance, ultimately uncovering a Linux kernel performance issue. This investigation was a collaboration between myself and my colleagues.
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MySQL at Uber
At Uber, our MySQL® fleet is the backbone of our data infrastructure, supporting a vast array of operations critical to our platform. Uber operates an extensive MySQL fleet, consisting of over 2,300 independent clusters. Building a control plane to manage this fleet at such a massive scale, while ensuring zero…
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Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively
Apache Iceberg and Parquet now support native geospatial types, connecting Wherobots, PostGIS, Sedona, Databricks, and Snowflake to one table format.
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WASM will replace containers
WebAssembly is a true write-once-run-anywhere experience.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
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Is NixOS truly reproducible?
Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model...
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OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
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I'm Done with Ubuntu
A few busted upgrades and the heavy-handed push of a software packaging solution has ruined Ubuntu for me.
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OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10
A list of OWASP's Non-Human Identities Top 10 risks for 2025
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Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
Frustrated with AWS's complexity and cost risks, I switched to NearlyFreeSpeech for its prepaid model, ensuring financial control while keeping hosting simple and flexible.
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FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg
High-quality sound in FreeBSD: system parameters, bitperfect signal, real-time operation, equalizer, MPD, FFmpeg filters.
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How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
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