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Nix: An idea whose time has come
Joe Armstrong once described Erlang as the quest for programs you “write once, run forever.” Nix, conversely, might be one that runs wherever, whenever.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,377 posts.
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The Unbundling of Airflow
Star us on GitHub In each subdomain of software, we have seen the same story over and over again. Products start small, in time, add adjacent verticals and functionality to their offerings and end up becoming a platform. Once these platforms become big enough, people start to figure out how
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My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
A Home Assistant Love Story
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Amazon Elastic File System Update – Sub-Millisecond Read Latency
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) was announced in early 2015 and became generally available in 2016. We launched EFS in order to make it easier for you to build applications that need shared access to file data. EFS is (and always has been) simple and serverless: you simply create a file system, attach it […]
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The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro
Today I will show you how I installed the latest snapshot of OpenBSDon my Pinebook Pro with plenty of detail so that you can do it, too.I will include instru...
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A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
This is a collection of information on severe ( SEV-0 or SEV-1 , the most severe incident classifications) incidents at Twitter that were at least partially attributed to cache from the time Twitter started using its current incident tracking JIRA (2012) to date (2022), with one bonus incident from before 2012. Not…
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SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel
SSH to machines in private networks using an SSH key, from anywhere in the world, using Cloudflare Tunnel.
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Lock-In and Multi-Cloud
Alone in a room with the customer’s CTO, I said “So, I spent this morning talking to your people, and it looks like you’re using low-level generic tech for everything and managing it yourself. You could save a shit-ton of money by using high-level managed services and get load-scaling for free.” “Yeah,” he said, “but…
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BeyondCorp is dead, long live BeyondCorp
No organization has fully implemented zero trust architecture. Many advocates, including the US government, overlook devices as a key BeyondCorp component.
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Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
For better or worse, flyctl isn't boring. Here's why.
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Single dependency stacks
Life with Postgres only.
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Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink
Overview of basic analytics during that one time my blog post got traction on HackerNews, and the steps I took to prepare for just this occasion.
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Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!
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Event-driven access to my home after a run
I always run with my phone on me, so accessing my home afterward has been convenient since installing MyQ W-Fi connected garage doors several years ago. No need to remember to carry a separate house key anymore and getting into my house is (usually) an app launch away. It has worked great, until one day …
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Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution
Deuxfleurs is a non-profit based in France that aims to defend and promote individual freedom and rights on the Internet. In their quest to build a d…
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Spam blacklisting is out of control
If you got shuned by the society not because of what you did but what your neighbor did, you will cry bloody injustice. This is exactly what is happening in SPAM blacklisting.
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Why Not ZFS (2021)
ZFS is a hybrid filesystem and volume manager system that is quite popular recently but has some important and unexpected problems.
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Starlink adds another 100Gbps connection to the SeattleIX
Netskope (AS55256) has added 1x100G, bringing their capacity to a total of 2x100G and 1x100G. They are connected to the route servers.
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Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
The new incident management tool is available in preview for Grafana Cloud users.
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Why and How I Got My Own ASN
In this article, I'll explain how, and why I acquired an Autonomous System Number and some IPv6 addresses.
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mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
One of the skills I wish I’d learned earlier in my career is basic Linux server administration. Specifically in relation to hosting something on the web, either a web app or API that I wrote myself, or something from the thriving self-hosted community , such as WordPress. Managing servers is increasingly seen as the…
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Can I have a smaller Prometheus
For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about having a time series DB and visualization tool that is easy to use and light on resources, so it can be used locally for development. Tried se…
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I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to
Yesterday, the Office and Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo:“Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles”. The memo…
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Reasons Kubernetes is so complex
Preface Hello friends! It’s been a while. I’ve been finding it very hard to write while holding up a full-time job, and I’ve also been dealing with some very...
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.