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Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
Over the last fourteen years we have been developing some of the best infrastructure in the world to power Google’s global-scale services. W...
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Fallback from CDN to local jQuery
There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as ...
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Introducing Heka
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, ...
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Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta
Today we’re happy to announce Heroku’s Europe region, available in public beta. With more than 3 million apps running on our platform from developers all..
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Things I set on new servers
There are a number of things you can do to make a server more secure whilst protecting your hosted entities and their users. Here are just three of the many things I do on every new server I commission. I hasten to add that these are not necessarily the most effective or at the top of my list - they are just that: 3…
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Running PostgreSQL on Compression-enabled ZFS
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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Ubuntu low-memory install for VMs
For those of you who play with virtual-machines like VMware, the Ubuntu server .iso contains an option for dramatically reducing the amount ...
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Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
Hi. I'm Adam Wiggins, cofounder and CTO of Heroku. Heroku has been my life’s work. Millions of apps depend on us, and I take that responsibility very...
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Announcing New Lower Request Pricing for Amazon S3
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing New Lower Request Pricing for Amazon S3
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Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
Chronos: A Replacement for Cron By Florian Leibert, Harry Shoff, & Andy Kramolisch Chronos is our replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of Mesos …
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How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us
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Load Balancing without Load Balancers
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service.
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Today's Outage Post Mortem
This morning at 09:47 UTC CloudFlare effectively dropped off the Internet. The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy.
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New kernel.org
If you are a developer located around Beijing, or if your connection to Beijing is faster and more reliable than to locations outside of China, then you may benefit from the new git.kernel.org mirror kindly provided by Code Aurora Forum at https://kernel.source.codeaurora.cn/ . This is …