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At Channable we use Nix to build and deploy our services and to manage our development environments. This was not always the case: in the past we used a combination of ecosystem-specific tools and custom scripts to glue them together. Consolidating everything with Nix has helped us standardize development and…
Our users deliver software to us as Docker containers, but we don’t use Docker to run them. We transmogrify container images into Firecracker micro-VMs. Here's how.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Likewise, it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they trusted it to someone else.
Suppose you need to create a function for adding two numbers together in plain C. How would you write it? What sort of an API would it have?...
Fixing production issues is one of the key responsibilities of system and network administrators. In fact, I’ve always found it to be one of the most interesting parts of infrastructure engineering. Diving as deep as needed into the problem at hand, not only do you (eventually) have the satisfaction of solving the…
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
Launching Supabase Storage and how you can use it in your apps
A few weeks ago an ordinary security assessment turned into an incident response whirlwind. It was definitely a first for me, and I was kindly granted permission to outline the events in this blog post. This investigation started scary but turned out be quite fun, and I hope reading it will be informative to you too…
Last night I was listening to the latest Under the Radar , where Marco Arment dove into nerdy detail about his recent Overcast server issues. The discussion was great, and you should listen to it, but Marco's recent server troubles were pretty similar to my own server issues from last year, and so I figured I'd share…
SRE SLO book to understand service level objective meaning and the various service level terminilogy including sla slo sli to improve service reliability.
GitLab is building Heroku for production apps in hyper clouds, integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
March 15, 2023 – You can now use S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to tailor content for end users. August 13, 2024 – Added a note clarifying that, when following the walkthrough, you should not mark the Specify Lambda function version option that was added after this post was published. When you store data in…
There’s no shortage of posts like “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems, or Do I Really Need Kubernetes?, which tend to argue that unless you’re orchestrating 1000 containers, you’re good without Kubernetes. Also, I thought this tweet was hilarious: So… Hi, I’m the guy using Kubernetes for my blog and small…
This started with a consulting snafu: Government organisation A got government organisation B to develop a web application. Government organisation B subcontracted part of the work to somebody. Hosting and maintenance of the project was later contracted out to a private-sector company C. Company C discovered that the…
Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests per second. Systems that worked great for a startup hadn’t scaled…
Infrastructure companies need a distinct approach to moderation that focuses on neutrality and due process.
Nitrokey explains why NextBox runs Debian instead of Ubuntu Core. An in-depth look at the technical and philosophical reasons behind the OS choice for the NextBox platform.
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
Making provision of that storage easier for developers is part of Terraform’s DNA. Learn how to get started.
If you’ve ever been alarmed by how many security vulnerabilities your Docker image has, even after you’ve installed security updates, here’s what’s going on.
In this blog, I will show you how to use WebSockets support to build a fleet of serverless containers that make up a chatroom server that can scale a high number of concurrent connections (250,000 clients).
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Hashicorp's Nomad is a great, easy to use and very flexible task scheduler/orchestrator, and actually fares up decently against Kubernetes.
Detectify analyzed 50,000 unique Nginx configuration files on GitHub and reported some common misconfigurations.
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
