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Connecting a Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Connect Your Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services Using Webhooks and New Quick Start
AWS Network Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) has been an important part of AWS since 2009, when it was launched as part of a three-pack that also included Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch. Since that time we have added many features, and also introduced the Application Load Balancer. Designed to support application-level…
Vagrant 2.0
We're announcing HashiCorp Vagrant 2.0. Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. Vagrant 2.0 supports provisioning development environments on VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, AWS, GCP, and more. It can virtualize Windows, macOS, and a dozen other new operating systems. Vagrant 2.0…
Run Kubernetes on top of DC/OS
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
This post covers how Apache Kafka and its Streams API are used for storing and processing all the articles ever published by The New York Times
Searching for the killer app of unikernels
When a radically different technology comes along it usually takes time before we figure out how to apply it. When we had steam engines running factories there was one engine in each factory with a giant driveshaft running through the whole factory. When the electric engine came along people started replacing the…
Rapid release at massive scale
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Deploying a global, private CDN
Ideas, research, and practical guidance for ecommerce teams building faster storefronts and more efficient growth programs.
Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017
In this update, we’ll review the Q2 2017 and lifetime hard drive failure rates for all our current drive models including enterprise and consumers drives.
Farewell, Solaris
MongoDB's blog includes technical tutorials, MongoDB best practices, customer stories, and industry news related to the leading non-relational database.
How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests per Day
Discover the tech stack used by Uploadcare. Explore 45 tools across 4 categories.
Breaking up the Container Monolith
Dan Walsh, of SELinux Coloring Book fame, presented on the work he and his team have been doing with containers. Dan has long been a technical leader in the container and SELinux spaces and is an
Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes
The performance of mobile phone processors has been steadily increasing, causing the performance gap between server and mobile processors to narrow with mobile processors sporting superior performance per unit energy. Fueled by the slowing of Moore’s Law, the overall performance of single-chip mobile and server…
Introducing App Engine Firewall
A key security feature for application developers and administrators is to be able to allow or deny incoming requests based on source IP addresses. This capability can help you do production testing without exposing your app to the world, block access to your app from specific geographies or block requests from a…
Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
The New York Times crossword has been an integral part of daily life for many people since it started appearing in print in 1942. When The…
Introducing Network Service Tiers
We're excited to announce Network Service Tiers Alpha , making Google Cloud Platform (GCP) the first major public cloud to offer a tiered cloud network. We let you optimize for performance by choosing Premium Tier, which uses Google’s global network with unparalleled quality of service, or optimize for cost, using the…
Serverless Raspberry Pi Cluster with Docker
Learn how to deploy Docker Swarm to create a Raspberry Pi cluster then turn it into a serverless super-computer with the OpenFaaS framework for Docker.
Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up
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Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
A key part of running a reliable database as a service is ensuring you have a good plan for disaster recovery. This post introduces WAL-G, the successor to WAL-E for Postgres, a complete rewrite of WAL-E that provides the same functionality plus 4x faster restores on recovery.
Home computing for $5/month
As a programming father you need to be concerned about your budget. This means resisting the temptation to buy the most amazing hardware, an...
Preventing server overload: limit requests being processed
Recently at Bluecore I ran into a familiar situation: during brief periods of overload, all requests to a server were timing out. It was a catastrophic failure, where the server completely stopped serving. We added more capacity to prevent overload, but we also wanted to fix the server. Instead of exploding, it should…