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How not to migrate an email domain
I did the thing! I moved IntroCave.com over to IntroMaker.com. It's still a bit of a work in progress ( some thoughts here ), but I decided to break this out as a separate post.
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SRE Doesn’t Scale
We encounter a lot of organizations talking about or attempting to implement SRE as part of our consulting at Real Kinetic. We’ve even discussed and debated ourselves, ad nauseam, how we can apply it at our own product company, Witful. There’s a brief, unassuming section in the SRE book tucked away towards the tail…
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data.
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ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pipelines with Airflow ETL: Unveiling the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sides of the process.
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Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
A short IPv6 tutorial, explaining the basics, primarily for home and small networks.
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Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide…
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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
Cloudflare announced their exciting new object storage product, Cloudflare R2. Will they take market share?
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PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
Run PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes, and see how convenient it is to use distributed features like parallel remote Postgres queries!
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More details about the October 4 outage
Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…
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Running BGP in large-scale data centers
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol …
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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office
A few months ago I moved to a few acres in the country, and needed somewhere to work - so I built myself a solar powered off grid office out of a Tuff-Shed Pro Studio! On one side, I’ve built a great desk corner with plenty of power and more than enough AC to keep me cool when it’s over 100F out.
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AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services
Today, I am happy to announce the availability of AWS Cloud Control API a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to make it easy for developers to manage their AWS and third-party services. AWS delivers the broadest and deepest portfolio of cloud services. Builders leverage these to…
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Cloudflare's Disruption
Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.
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AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Achieve up to 34% better price/performance with AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processor
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Podman in Linux
Podman is the new cool kid on the block. Podman is a deamonless container(OCI) engine for Linux. It's the natural open-source Docker replac...
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Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
Introducing Cloudflare’s S3-compatible Object Storage service, with zero egress bandwidth charges and automatic migration from S3-compatible services.
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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era
By Xiaomei Liu, Rosanna Lee, Cyril Concolato
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I don't think Elasticsearch is a good logging system
I’ve been a heavy user of ElasticSearch for coming up 7 years now. During that time I’ve used it for a few main usecases: A Search Engine, An APM Solution (after NewRelic started being stupidly expensive), a backend for Jaeger, and as a log storage system. In all of those usecases I’ve really pushed ElasticSearch to…
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Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie search engine
UPDATE 2025-05-19 Somewhat un-suprisingly AWS has closed the loophole that I was exploiting for this https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/#30._AWS_Lambda and as such compiling data into your lambda …
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Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes
[Hacker News discussion, Twitter thread]
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Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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We killed our end-to-end test suite
How Nubank switched from and End-to-End suite to a Contract and Acceptance testing strategy to scale to over 1k engineers
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AWS Region Coming to New Zealand
We are currently working on regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain , Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Auckland, New Zealand in the Works Today I am happy to announce that the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region is in the works and will open in 2024. This region will have three Availability…
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Raspberry Pi KVMs Compared: TinyPilot and Pi-KVM v3
In a strange coincidence, the authors of TinyPilot and Pi-KVM both emailed me within a week of each other and asked if I'd be interested in one of their KVM devices. Michael Lynch, founder of Tiny Pilot, said he'd used some of my Ansible work in building the TinyPilot update system, and Maxim Devaev, of Pi-KVM, liked…
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What’s in a package
There is no shortage of package managers. Each tool makes its own set of tradeoffs regarding speed, ease of use, customizability, and reproducibility. Guix occupies a sweet spot, providing reproducibility by design as pioneered by Nix , package customization à la Spack from the command line, the ability to create…