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Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
Gmail and Yahoo announce transformative updates to come in 2024. The updates impact senders but implementing the changes is easier than you think. Are you ready?
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Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
Over the last few months, Baker and I have been digging in deep on Heat Pumps . I'm putting my explorations here on pause but wanted to write up everything we've learned over the last few months.
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An overview of distributed Postgres architectures
Marco just joined Crunchy Data and he reflects on his career in distributed systems in this post. He provides an overview of several options for approaching distributed Postgres workloads and the pros and cons of each approach.
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How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble te…
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Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods
Dive into Backblaze's analysis of storage server performance, exploring Drive Stats, Storage Pods, and insights on drive failure rates since 2009.
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Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes
Ryan Schachte — infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems
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The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023
This investigation was surprising to me so I thought it would be interesting to share my findings and I hope you'll like it.
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7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen
Maybe a poem will help remember complicated power-saving settings for SSDs. Here goes. "ALPM for SATA, not N-V-M-e. The latter needs ASPM, and A-P-S-T"....
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Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
When our CTO said "I'll upgrade your MacBook if you can prove it's worthwhile", we embarked on a journey including (re)building a Go hot-reloader, instrumenting developer builds, analyzing compiler performance, and feeding an AI model the data until we had an answer.
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Non-interactive SSH password authentication
Instead of using sshpass to non-interactively provide an SSH password, here is a simpler approach by harnessing the built-in features of OpenSSH...
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Indexing a billion pages
It’s two years since we launched Mwmbl, the open source, non-profit search engine, on Boxing Day 2021. A good time to take stock of where we are and where we’re going. We’ve indexed over 100 million pages Thanks to our volunteers, who crawl the web using the Firefox extension and command line script, we’re crawling up…
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Cisco to acquire Isovalent
Cisco acquires Isovalent, founded by creators of eBPF and the team behind Cilium and Tetragon, the leading cloud native solutions leveraging eBPF technology.
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eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection
This is the first post of a many planned to shed light on the various networking techniques eBPF makes available to a Linux network developer.
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It's not always DNS, unless it is
Our journey investigating a months-long issue and what we learned from it
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How to Escape a Container
Panoptica by Outshift delivers advanced cloud-native security insights to help teams protect modern applications and infrastructure at scale.
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Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms
Hi, I’m Varun. I have a server in my room. Actually, I have two of them. And I write a ton of my own code for them. And I love it. This is a story documenting my homelab’s quiet beginnings, its spiralling evolution, and its uncertain future.
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Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
Podman Desktop 1.6 has been released!
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Making my own bed sensor
I recently created some “bed sensors” for my smart home that detect if one of us, or both of us, is in bed. I use a couple of pressure mats that detect when weight is applied to them, and stuck then under our mattress at around hip level and these tell my Home Assistant home automation platform if
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Fly Kubernetes
Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.
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Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase
A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io
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Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner
With Ubicloud PostgreSQL, we are releasing an open and managed PostgreSQL, and cutting your cloud database spend by 3x.
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Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager
Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.
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The new local data stack: Integrating Dagster, dbt and DuckDB
Lean and efficient MDS experience: Delivers better software engineering practices to the data ecosystem with the new local MDS stack comprised of Dagster, dbt and DuckDB which offers better developer productivity by enhancing testability of the E2E pipeline.
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Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?
It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years.
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Choose your own IP
Gain full control over IP address allocation in your Tailscale network, enabling efficient management and compatibility with other systems.
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Rethinking serverless with FLAME
Imagine if you could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a temporary copy of your app