The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 281 posts.
I’m an AWS Serverless Hero, principal engineer at an AWS centric logistics company, and I build and maintain the AWS News Feed. It’s fair to say that I am very interested in everything AWS does. Bu…
For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right…
Binance Scales its Log Service to 100PB and Saves Millions with Quickwit
Inaugural blog post about the development of turbopuffer, a search engine that uses object storage and SSD caching for cost-effective, low latency search. This post describes into the motivation behind its creation, its unique architecture, and how it significantly reduces costs for large-scale vector searches…
Tips and technical analysis on how to pick an H100 cluster (interconnect, reliability and CO2 emissions)
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…
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?
Podman Desktop 1.11 has been released!
When we look at the general security posture of Let’s Encrypt, one of the things that worries us most is how much of the operating system and network infrastructure is written in unsafe languages like C and C++. The CA software itself is written in memory safe Golang, but from our server operating systems to our…
Need to schedule tasks in PostgreSQL? Compare pg_cron for simple in-database scheduling with pg_timetable for complex workflows and multi-cluster orchestration.
Meta is currently operating many data centers with GPU training clusters across the world. Our data centers are the backbone of our operations, meticulously designed to support the scaling demands …
While trying to build my Age Apple Secure Enclave plugin , a small Swift CLI app, on Alpine Linux , I realized that the Swift toolchain doesn’t run on Alpine Linux. The upcoming Swift 6 will support (cross-)compilation to a static (musl-based) Linux target, but I suspect an Alpine Linux version of Swift itself isn’t…
End-to-end documentation of a journey from no PCB experience to fabricating my own Linux-ready system that can boot the latest mainline kernel. This article is the recommended reading for someone building their first embedded Linux board. F1C100s SoC is used for this sample board.
Blog posts from the lytix team
I regularly complain about OpenTelemetry, so with an aim to be a less useless contributor, today I'm putting pen to paper. If you're an implementer, I ask you to read this and take away the personal bias you might have towards your work, and instead look objectively at the feedback being given.
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
Uber connects the physical and digital worlds to help make movement happen at the tap of a button. Billions of trips, deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, and merchants are made at Uber every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides…
Discover how OpenTelemetry tracing and Coralogix analysis resolve latency issues, proving observability's role in enhancing system performance and reliability.
GitHub Actions now offers Arm-hosted runners with images built by Arm for developers to begin building on the latest and most sustainable processors on the market.
Head’s up: This is a blog post about applied cryptography, with a focus on web and cloud applications that encrypt data at rest in a database or filesystem. While the lessons can be broadly a…
Documenting a pattern for making multi-tenant applications global by distributing the data, using only standard PostgreSQL functionality.
We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB...
Announcing Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos.
