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Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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Ansible open-sources Ansible Tower with AWX
Ever since Red Hat acquired Ansible, I and many others have anticipated whether or when Ansible Tower would be open sourced. Ansible Tower is one of the nicest automation tools I've used... but since I haven't been on a project with the budget to support the Tower licensing fees, I have only used it for testing…
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How I Reduced My DB Server Load by 80%
Database load can be a silent performance killer. I’ve been optimizing the query performance of a web app I run designed to get people involved in open sourc...
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Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances
Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances using Docker on an external volume
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Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
Got compute- and memory-hungry applications? We’ve got you covered, with new machine types that have up to 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of memory—a 50% increase in compute resources per Google Compute Engine VM. These machine types run on Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Skylake), and offer the most vCPUs of any cloud…
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Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
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Avoid Vendor Lock-In Risk with Multi-Cloud Deployments
Using CockroachDB means shifting operational thinking from disaster recovery to disaster resilience, and completely side steps the risks associated with vendor lock-in.
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Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality.
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A 1 KB Docker Container
Field notes from a software developer
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Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it.
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HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016)
Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and everything. That give them some interesting characteristics. First, they are the mos…
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Extending per-second billing in Google Cloud
We are pleased to announce that we’re extending per-second billing, with a one minute minimum, to Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc, and App Engine flexible environment VMs. These changes are effective today and are applicable to all VMs, including Preemptible VMs and VMs running our premium operating…
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Documenting your architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all
Instead of drawing UML diagrams, why not generate them from a network traffic capture of the running system?
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Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles
I’m using Golang for a while. During the development, I was used to repeatedly execute “go build”,“go test” manually. This was a bad habit on which I resign. It is not so painful if you use simple command without any args. But in case of more complex tasks, naturally, it is going to be a…
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Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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HashiCorp and Google: easing secret and infrastructure management
Open source technology encourages collaboration and innovation to address real world problems, including projects supported by Google Cloud. As part of our broad engagement with the open source community, we’ve been working with HashiCorp since 2013 to enable customers who use HashiCorp tools to make optimal use of…
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Why we started CoreOS
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively
We were inspired after Paul Dix, Co-Founder and CTO of InfluxData spoke at PromCon and received interest in more integration between Prometheus and InfluxDB. We are excited to introduce InfluxDB Prometheus Interoperability - InfluxDB 1.4, which now sup...
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Managed SSL for Google App Engine
We’re excited to announce the beta release of managed SSL certificates at no charge for applications built on Google App Engine . This service automatically encrypts server-to-client communication — an essential part of safeguarding sensitive information over the web. Manually managing SSL certificates to ensure a…
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Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements
In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and…
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