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GitHub merge queue is generally available
Supercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 341 posts.
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OpenTTD's Infrastructure in 2023
This post is part of a two-part series, of which this is the first. In this post, we go a bit into the infrastructure that runs OpenTTD, from BaNaNaS to our main website. The second post will explain a bit about the migration we just did to get to this infrastructure.
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Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates would be trusted, even while our own ISRG Root X1…
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Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
According to an email sent to its customers in mid-June, Gandi.net, a major European domain name registration and web hosting company, is increasing prices across its entire suite of products.
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We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Firecracker is not the best choice for all kinds of workloads.
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Train an AI model once and deploy on any cloud
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to access the latest compute resources, consistently support worldwide customers, and optimize cost. However…
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Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem
A partial network outage occurred at Fastmail on June 30th, 2023. Most did not notice, but it was severe for the directly affected 3-5% of our customers.
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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LXD is now under Canonical
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
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A PyTorch Approach to ML Infrastructure
Distribute and run AI workloads on Kubernetes magically in Python, like PyTorch for ML infra. - run-house/kubetorch
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Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
Using latency measurements to infer when a globally used application is served only from us-east-1.
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FreeBSD Jails Containers
FreeBSD networking and containers (Jails) stacks are very mature and provide lots of useful features … yet for some reason these features are not properly advertised by the FreeBSD project &#…
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The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows
Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible.
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Working with Docker containers with the dexec bash script
I wrote a simple dexec script to make running commands through Docker containers less clunky. I'll show you what dexec is and how to use it!
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Monitoring Is a Pain
And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is an
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How platform engineering works
Lessons learned in my first year as a platform engineer.
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Last week's Let's Encrypt downtime
How I detected that Let's Encrypt issued 645 non-compliant certificates
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Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces
A blog about free software and programming
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How Canva saves Amazon S3 costs
Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.
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Review of Hetzner ARM64 servers and experience of WebP cloud services on them
TL；DR： Hetzner ARM64 performs very well, with the 4-core CAX21 (ARM64, 4 cores, 8GB RAM) machine only being 8% slower in WebP conversion speed compared to the 3-core CPX21 (AMD64, 3 cores, 4GB RAM), while the price difference between the two is 14% (8.40 USD/mo vs 9.76 USD/mo). Additionally, the CAX21 offers twice the…
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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
Learn how Nix Flakes improve the composability and reproducibility of builds in Nix and Devbox.
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DevOps Is Bullshit (2022)
A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
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The next generation of serverless
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories
Trickest workflow parses 15TB of GitHub Archive logs and extracts public details for every user and repository back to 2015.
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Why PostgreSQL High Availability Matters and How to Achieve It
Achieving PostgreSQL high availability is vital for application uptime. Explore popular HA deployment options to make an informed choice that fits your needs.
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Quick VPN Setup with AWS Lightsail and WireGuard
How to run your own VPN in the cloud for less than a penny per hour ( $0.007 / hr )
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Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode
We’ve written previously about how to configure WiFi and SSH on your Raspberry Pi without having to connect any peripheral devices (headless). As long as you’re comfortable on the command line, this makes it much easier to work with your Pi.
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Usenet over NNCP
Usenet, of course, originally ran over UUCP in quite a few cases. Since NNCP is quite similar to UUCP – in fact, you can map UUCP commands to NNCP ones – it is quite possible, and not all that hard, to run Usenet over NNCP. In fact, in a number of ways, it works better than Usenet over UUCP! Introduction to NNCP…