Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014
At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced.
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 174 posts.
At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced.
This blog post is based on a talk I gave on 2014-05-21. For a few years now, GNU/Linux distributions have been migrating away from SysV ini...
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Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
Recently microservices have been getting a lot of attention, both positive and negative. Articles about them tend to fall into two camps, which I'll affectionately label the hipster camp and the neckbeard camp. The hipster camp tends to strongly favor microservices, due to the excellent benefits they provide regarding…
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Learn how to keep your SSL certificates up to date and valid.
At Heroku, we want to make the process of deploying, running and updating code simple and easy. To that end, we’re launching the Heroku Button: a simple HT
Terraform is a platform for building, changing, and managing infrastructure in a safe, repeatable way.
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Kubernetes is an open source manager for Docker containers, based on Google’s years of experience using containers at Internet scale. Today...
Here at MNX, we’ve been busy setting up a brand new data center for our cloud hosted services. We started off as a consulting company providing managed Linux services, which means we have been exposed to a ton of different customer environments and an equal number of schemes for naming equipment…not all of them good…
Microservices - everyone talks about them nowadays. There’s no common understanding however what they are. I’ve been researching this topic for a while, gathering and evaluating articles, presentations and conference videos.
Even though the speedometer in my car maxes out at 150 MPH, I rarely drive at that speed (and the top end may be more optimistic than realistic), but it is certainly nice to have the option to do so when the time and the circumstances are right. Most of the time I am using […]
When they start using Docker, people often ask: “How do I get inside my containers?” and other people will tell them “Run an SSH server in your containers!” but that’s a very bad practice. We will see why it’s wrong, and what you should do instead.
Cost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels
A quick overview of Linux settings I change on almost every machine I manage.