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Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)
This is a follow-up post to “Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1” , continuing the journey of exploring Docker on Apple’s new M1 machines.
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ASICs at the Edge
At Cloudflare, we pride ourselves in our global network that spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. To accelerate all that traffic through our network, there are multiple technologies at play. So let’s have a look at one of the cornerstones that makes all of this work.
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Use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo
There’s something really quite subtle about how the nproc utility from GNU coreutils works. If you look at the man page, it’s even the very first sentence: Print the number of processin…
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AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
As the volume and complexity of your data processing pipelines increase, you can simplify the overall process by decomposing it into a series of smaller tasks and coordinate the execution of these tasks as part of a workflow. To do so, many developers and data engineers use Apache Airflow, a platform created by the…
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Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive
You can upgrade the storage in your Raspberry Pi 4 with an NVMe drive using USB3 to get more reliable storage and faster I/O than an SD…
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Classifying the Internet of Things
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
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A Month of Terraform
I took Heroku for granted, and a month into setting up my own infra, I now know how much it bought me.
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Transitioning from Docker to Podman
Learn how to install Podman, practice its basic commands, transition away from Docker, and set up Apache HTTP Server 2.4 in a CentOS container with Podman.
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Moving Away from Travis CI
At rOpenSci, we encourage R package developers to take advantage of Continuous Integration services to automatically check the package on different platforms, with different versions of R. The rOpenSci dev guide dedicates chapter 2 to the topic of Continuous Integration Best Practices, and recommends a few common CI…
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HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3
Many developers believe S3 is the "end of file system history". It is impossible to build a file/object storage system on AWS that can compete with S3...
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Supersonic Electric Flight
This post is inspired by the recent press release about the Rolls Royce Accel, an experimental electric aircraft being built to attempt the electric speed record. Close friends know I’ve been…
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Getting Started with Ansible
This post was originally published on November 12, 2020, but the content has been updated according to the recent Ansible changes. In our previous blog post , we looked at what configuration management tools bring to the table. And in this post, we will take a closer look at Ansible, our configuration management tool…
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Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
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Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
Serverless is like a black hole. It promised exciting adventures, but the gravity sucked me in and I spent most of my efforts dealing with its complexity, in...
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Migrating Large Heroku Postgres Instances to AWS Aurora Without Downtime
In this article I discuss a general process I used recently to migrate a large multi-terabyte Heroku Postgres Database from the Heroku Platform to Amazon Aurora Postgres on a live Heroku based application architecture with near zero downtime and builtin failover during the process.
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How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework
I joined Dropbox not long after graduating with a Master’s degree in computer science. Aside from an internship, this was my first big-league engineering job. My team had already begun designing a critical internal service that most of our software would use: It would handle asynchronous computing requests behind the…
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InfluxDB is betting on Rust and Apache Arrow for next-gen data store
InfluxData Founder & CTO Paul Dix lays out a vision for the future of InfluxDB and introduces a new project that will form its basis: InfluxDB IOx.
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eBPF – The Future of Networking and Security
Isovalent, the company behind Cilium, is announcing its $29M Series A financing round. Lets take a deeper look into where eBPF-based ...
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One Week of NixOS
The website of Jae.
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A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups
So you've heard of this thing called cgroups, and you are interested in finding out more. Perhaps you caught mention of it while listening to a talk abou...
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Standing on our own two feet
Update, July 10, 2023 See our new blog post for details on the September 2024 expiration of the newer ISRG Root X1 cross-sign from IdenTrust. Update, December 21, 2020 Thanks to community feedback and our wonderful partners at IdenTrust, we will be able to continue to offer service without interruption to people using…
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We are building a CLI first PaaS without a web frontend
At the start of this hectic year I have joined Micro, an open source microservices platform. The company was born out of a Go framework. We took the concepts...