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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.
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Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
To help data teams stay on top of the changes happening in the industry, this article reviews an updated set of data infrastructure architectures.
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We deleted the production database by accident
This is pure disaster porn. It’s the story of how I drank some wine and then managed to delete the production database. Thankfully there was a backup.
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So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
(Heads up — this article was published in October 2020. Much of the general discussion is still relevant, but many of these SoCs are getting quite long in the tooth, and some of the software issues mentioned here have been addressed)
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Waypoint: Build, deploy, and release applications across any platform
A consistent developer workflow to build, deploy, and release applications across any platform.
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How to put machine learning models into production
The goal of building a machine learning model is to solve a problem, and a machine learning model can only do so when it is in production and actively in use by consumers. As such, model deployment is as important as model building.
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HashiCorp Boundary
Simple and secure remote access — to any system anywhere based on trusted identity.
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Cloudflare One
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.
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Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.
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We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (2018)
Here's an in-depth recap of debugging a GitLab issue that culminated in a patch for the Linux kernel.
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Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. Update …
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WSL2 – Installation Tutorial for Graphical Windows Subsystem on Linux
In 2001, Microsoft's former CEO— Steve Ballmer— was quoted by the online tech news publication, The Register, saying: Linux is a
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The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
Get started with AWS Lambda with Complete Handbook For Beginners. Create your first simple AWS Lambda function.
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Benchmarking static website hosting providers
Static websites are still a hot topic. They are fast, and they're incredibly secure because there isn't a CMS to hack. Once you build a static website, however, the question becomes: Where do I host?In other words: what is the fastest static webs...
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Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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Repurposing my old Chromebook to a low power home server
Can’t sell it? Repurpose it! It was around 4 years ago when I bought a used, slightly beat up Asus C300 Chromebook from a friend of mine for £50. It served me well, I installed Linux on it and used it to work on some side projects while commuting. However as time passed by, I slowly forgot about it and it ended up in…
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Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless
Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.
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How to properly manage SSH keys for server access
This article was on the hacker news frontpage. You can find the related discussion here. Every developer needs access to some servers for example to check the application logs. Usually, this is done using public-private key encryption where each developer generates their own public-private key pair. The public keys of…
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IPFS 0.7.0, the SECIO retirement edition
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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Traefik, Now With Native Go Plugins
Traefik 2.3, the latest version of the most popular open source cloud native proxy, is now available. With plugins, ECS provider, and more!
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Creating a Home IPv6 Network
One of the recent experiences of Linux Plumbers Conference convinced me that if you want to be part of a true open source WebRTC based peer to peer audio/video interaction, you need an internet address that’s not behind a NAT. In reality, the protocol still works as long as you can contact a stun server to tell you…
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Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely available, and by making certificates smaller. Given that we…
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Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am
Like so many things I’m supposed to do but don’t — getting exercise, eating right, sleeping well, standing up for women and minorities in public spaces — backing up my data has always been something I’ve half-assed at best.
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What we learned after a year on Kubernetes
It's been one year since we moved GitLab.com to Kubernetes. We unpack the challenges and learnings from this major migration.
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New T4g EC2 Instances, Powered by AWS Graviton2
December 10, 2020 – Post updated for the extension of the T4g free-trial until March 31, 2021. During the free-trial period, customers who run a t4g.micro instance will automatically get 750 free hours per month deducted from their bill during each month. T4g free-trial will be available in addition to the existing…
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Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
Raspberry Pi for self hosting applications, locally secure private connection, install Tor Proxy, emby media server
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How to stream audio from your phone to your laptop with PulseAudio
This guide describes how to stream audio from your smartphone to your computer over Bluetooth.