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Azure dropping database support for MariaDB. Users advised to migrate to MySQL
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Deno Queues
Introducing Deno Queues - zero config, scalable messaging with a guaranteed at-least-once delivery. This new primitive builds on the foundation set by Deno KV, and is available today in the Deno JavaScript runtime and Deno Deploy.
Workers AI: Serverless GPU-powered inference
We are excited to launch Workers AI - an AI inference as a service platform, empowering developers to run AI models with just a few lines of code, all powered by our global network of GPUs
Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose
Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦
Nuvem, a subsea cable to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the U.S.
The Nuvem submarine cable will connect Portugal, Bermuda and South Carolina, and will be Bermuda’s first transatlantic fiber optic route.
μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell scripting, and a small...
GitHub Actions could be so much better
I love GitHub Actions: I’ve been a daily user of it since 2019 for both professional and hobbyist projects, and have found it invaluable to both my overall productivity and peace of mind. I’m just old enough to have used Travis CI et al. professionally before moving to GitHub Actions, and I do not look back with joy 1…
AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
AWS will charge for IPv4 addresses but its IPv6 support lacks severely
Gokrazy is cool
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We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)
RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka might appear similar but serve very different needs. Read to learn and make an informed decision suitable for your needs.
Tracing: Structured logging, but better
It is no secret that I am not a fan of logs; I’ve baited (rapala in work lingo. Rapala is a Finnish brand of fishing lure, and used to mean baiting in this context) discussion in our work chat with things like: If you’re writing log statements, you’re doing it wrong. This is a pretty incendiary statement, and while…
Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator
Meet Kargo, the open source continuous promotion tool from the creators of Argo that moves changes from stage to stage with GitOps, not CI scripts.
Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
In this article, you will learn what stands behind the label immutable when it comes to Linux systems
AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B
AWS grew its IPv4 estate with an additional 27 million IP addresses to now owning 128 Million IPv4 addresses. At a value of $35 per IPv4 address, the total value of AWS’ IPv4 estate is ~4.5 Billion dollars. An increase of $2 billion
Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
Introducing Infrastructure Manager, which integrates HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure as code workflow into the Google Cloud experience.
Webhook Failure Scenarios
<p>A webhooks allow two applications to communicate events. It is relatively simple to get started using webhooks using HTTP and JSON. However, there a number of failure scenarios that developers should be aware of in order to make their webhook implementation robust.</p>
Skip the API, ship your database
The best code is the code unwritten. Avoid building a complex API layer by sharing your database between services.
We built the fastest CI and it failed
Earthly CI, touted as the fastest CI system, is shutting down due to a lack of market demand and difficulty in convincing users to switch from exis...
Death by a Thousand Microservices
The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills
UK air traffic control meltdown
Some notes about the UK air traffic control meltdown
Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 mil…
Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Part I: Talos on Hetzner
I’ve been running a Kubernetes cluster on a mix of virtual and bare metal machines with Hetzner for about a year now, and while the setup has served me well, being a very exploratory exercise at the time it wasn’t very well documented.
Bun v1.0.0
Bun is stable and ready for production.
PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
Updated 2024-09-17 to reflect updated PgBouncer support for protocol-level prepared statements 🐘 To start, I want to say that I’m appreciative that PgBouncer exists and the work its open source maintainers put into it. I also love working with PostgreSQL, and I’m thankful for the incredible amount of work and…
25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
First part of a story on how I’ve built 25 Gbps router for home use.
Fighting API bots with Cloudflare's invisible turnstile
There's a "hidden" API on HIBP. Well, it's not "hidden" insofar as it's easily discoverable if you watch the network traffic from the client, but it's not meant to be called directly, rather only via the web app. It's called "unified search" and it looks
How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second
Discover how Amazon Search combines technology and culture to empower its builder teams, ensuring platform resilience through Chaos Engineering.