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Etcd – The Road to 1.0
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How we got read access on Google’s production servers
This is the original writeup on how Detectify security researchers gained read access on Google's production servers.
Tarsnap: No heartbleed here
There's a few reasons for this. First, the Tarsnap client-server protocol does not use TLS; instead, it uses a protocol which is about 100x simpler (in terms of the number of pages of documentation required to define it). This means there's less code and far fewer edge cases where bugs can lurk without being triggered…
OpenSSL Heartbleed Security Update
Yesterday the OpenSSL Project released an update to address the CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability, nicknamed “Heartbleed.” This serious vulnerability affects a..
Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
Today we are announcing plans to shut down the Ubuntu One file services. This is a tough decision, particularly when our users rely so heavily on the functionality that Ubuntu One provides. However, like any company, we want to focus our efforts on our most important strategic initiatives and ensure we are not spread…
Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
Updated at 12:52 PM PST to include App Engine pricing information Editors note: Tune in to Google Cloud Platform Live for more informatio...
Basic Concepts of High Availability Linux
When considering to build a high availability cluster based on Linux, it’s easy to find all kinds of how-to’s explaining the basic tooling and configuration. Most of them forget to explain some of the basic concepts of high availability. In this post I’ll try to explain them. To build a high availability cluster that…
Npm security post-mortem
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
Happy Birthday Docker
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
JsDelivr – The advanced open source public CDN
This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov and his project jsDelivr. – Editor's note. As a developer you are probably aware of Google Hosted Libraries. Google offers an easy ...
Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives – Faster, Simpler and Less Expensive
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Self-hosted Git Server
Moving off of Github and onto my own public Git hosting.
The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.
Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough
This particular blog post was sitting on my mind for a long time. I don’t want to start a flame war, but at the same time I also don’t wish for Linux community to build and grow upon ad-hoc solutions that we’ve accumulated over the last 30 years to the packaging and deployment problems. History of Linux automation…
Docker 0.9: introducing execution drivers and libcontainer
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Vagrant 1.5 and Vagrant Cloud
Vagrant 1.5 is now available! This is a new major release that adds some incredible new features to Vagrant. We've also obsessed over stability, so we expect this to be the most stable release, as well. We're also announcing Vagrant Cloud, a place for sharing, discovering, and creating Vagrant environments.
Vagrant Share
A primary goal of Vagrant is not only to provide easy-to-use development environments, but also to make it easy to share and collaborate on these environments. With Vagrant 1.5, we're introducing a feature that will allow you to share your running Vagrant environment with anyone, on any network connected to the…
Cluster-Level Container Deployment with Fleet
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Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it
You learned about Docker . It's awesome and you're excited. You go and create a Dockerfile:
Scaling Asana.com
Are you interested in learning more about working on Asana's engineering team or the work they do? Read the Asana engineering blog.