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Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details
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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity
Cloudflare's R2 is an undiscovered gem and is redefining the economics of data storage
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Google Adsense is transitioning to per-impression payments for publishers
AdSense is updating its revenue share-structure and moving to per-impression payments for publishers.
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Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm
Arm has acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, further extending a successful long-term partnership between the two companies.
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How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer [video]
Dalton & Michael: The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the short end of the stick when starting a company. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we'll discuss how to keep that from happening to you.
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Reasons to fight cashless contagion
Total payments uberfication is a virus, and we need to build resistance to it
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A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
Treezor migrated a legacy PHP application from servers to serverless on AWS Lambda. They gained increased scalability, faster response times and fewer production incidents.
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HubSpot Acquires Clearbit
HubSpot has signed an agreement to acquire Clearbit.
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Sentry: From the Beginning
I've been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we've been through a lot with Sentry and I can provide some useful value to others. More so, I believe most people in this industry, most successful people, do others a disservice but not having honest conversations…
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What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?
Sweet merciful Jesus, I woke up this morning and my inbox was flooded with horrific stories about how employers treat people. I knew things were fucked, but this was so much worse than I imagined, and that's not even getting into the comments on Hackernews. I am going to dig into some of those emails, but first...
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The costs of microservices (2020)
An application typically starts its life as a monolith. Take a modern backend of a single-page Javascript application, for example - it starts out as a single stateless web service that exposes a RESTful HTTP API and uses a relational database as a backing store. The service is composed of a number of components, or…
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I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I've made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons.
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The History of Microsoft Encarta
Searchable Human Knowledge
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Apple's Blue Ocean
I first read about the “ blue ocean ” strategy in a story (probably in Edge magazine ) about the Nintendo Wii . While its competitors were fighting for supremacy in the game-console market by producing ever-more-powerful hardware capable of high-definition visuals, Nintendo chose not to join this fight. The pursuit of…
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A fourth of U.S. health visits now delivered by non-physicians
Health care provided by nurse practitioners and physician assistants expected to rise
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The product manager role is a mistake
The popular model Software product companies aren’t usually started by people with a strong background in building software products. Those who most likely end up founding businesses are good at getting funding, and at understanding their target industry. They’ve been in their industry for a long time, know their…
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Microsoft is failing to deliver emails that mention newclimate.org
Since 17 October, to our knowledge any email with the NewClimate URL (newclimate dot org) in the email body, link, signature, reply header or contained anywhere in an attachment is unjustifiably quarantined by Microsoft email servers without any notice, regardless of who sends or receives the email.
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Krita is now available on the macOS store
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions
Ceasing Print Editions for ACM Journals and Transactions
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We need to talk about funding
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Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
This article is an excerpt of my new book Cloudflare for Speed and Security where you will learn, among other things, how networking works in order to create fast, secure and scalable applications. If you are not overspending on compute (like many companies do because of "scale") then your biggest
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Jina AI launches open-source 8k text embedding
Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, the world's first open-source model boasting an 8K context length. Matching the prowess of OpenAI's proprietary models, this innovation is now publicly accessible on Huggingface, signaling a significant milestone in the landscape of text embeddings.
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox (2021)
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
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I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
I originally posted this on Reddit so I could get a good sample of opinions from other engineers to see how they compared to mine before…
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Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source
The largest recipient of this funding every year has been the FreeBSD Foundation, and to date they have received $173,920. It's hard to overstate the importance of the work the Foundation does; they provide hardware which keeps the FreeBSD project running, they fund a myriad of independent projects, and they have…
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Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
Original Publish Date: June 2023 | MC650424 Revised Date: August 30, 2023, based on Microsoft's Updated Message See text in red font. Microsoft's...