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Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
Operational simplicity in aodrqew, balancing stability and agility to enhance reliability, reduce complexity, and focus on impactful innovation.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 281 posts.
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Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
Google Cloud shares details of an incident impacting one Australian customer's use of Google Cloud VMware Engine. Learn what happened and how we're preventing it from happening again.
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Don't microservice, do module
Looking beyond the hype and explaining why microservices should nearly become extinct.
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Making EC2 boot time faster
It's possible to cut EC2 boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds by combining several optimizations like root volume streaming, instance warm pools, and instance resizing.
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S3 is showing its age
I'm squarely in the trough of disillusionment with S3.
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The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare
moved this website 'worldofmatthew.com' away from CloudFlare back in August 2020.That should have been the end of the relation with CloudFlare for my website.
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Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
This week, we'll dive into how we migrated Uber’s business-critical ledger data to LedgerStore. We'll detail how we moved more than a trillion entries (making up a few petabytes of data) transparently and without causing disruption, and we'll discuss what we learned during the migration.
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Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service
With additional Kubernetes mode!
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What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?
Update 2024-05-21: Miles Ward has an update with more details in this X thread: UniSuper’s production Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) private cloud was automatically deleted one year after it’s creation due to a misconfiguration in how it was created. When it was created, there was a bug in the creation script which…
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HBase Deprecation at Pinterest
Alberto Ordonez Pereira | Senior Staff Software Engineer; Lianghong Xu | Senior Manager, Engineering;
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Using ARG in a Dockerfile – beware the gotcha
Learning about the subtle gotcha with ARG and FROM instruction ordering in Dockerfile definitions.
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Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
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Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext
The current state of systemd-sysext in Flatcar and the next steps
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
My obsession with measuring the power consumption of my devices reached a whole new level.
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Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
Traefik got really popular over the last few years in the bubble of home-lab youtubers , that’s when I first heard about it.
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Creating a low-cost EV charging station with Arduino
Creating a low-cost EV charging station with Arduino: see how a maker built a smart charger for electric vehicles.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024
Analyze Backblaze's Q1 2024 hard drive stats, including annualized failure rates, average ages of failure, and insights on over 279,000 drives.
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The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack
If you publicly host large data files on AWS S3 & pay for transfer costs, you may be vulnerable to a “Denial of Wallet” amplification…
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How to install Linux from a Windows installer
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Presumably for the same reason as me? I also don't know what that was.
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OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions
OpenTofu 1.7.0 is now available with full state encryption, dynamic provider-defined functions, the removed and loopable import blocks, new migration guides, and much more.
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How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
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Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS?
Is it OK to daisy chain UPSs? Let’s look at a few reasons this is a common question and alternative approaches that can better address the target.
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Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
Almost everyone I know who uses a computer, for...
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Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat
Learn how Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS is built to empower open source developers and deliver innovation for the next 12 years. […]
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Building an open data pipeline in 2024
Using Iceberg allows us to pick the optimal "big data" compute environment for the specific requirements we have. There's no need to limit yourself to a single solution.
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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
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Stop Doing Cloud
An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.
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Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol
Supabase Storage is now officially an S3-Compatible Storage Provider.