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Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
Leverage S3 and CloudFront to host your web app in an infinitely scalable way.
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This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power
I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which is connected to a solar charge controller. This device charges an old worn-out car battery and provides power to a Raspberry Pi ~~3b+~~ 4B, which in turn powers this (static) website.
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Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective
By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park
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Flutter for Linux
By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve…
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New Compute Engine A2 VMs–First Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud
Google Cloud’s new Accelerator-Optimized (A2) VM family is based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU, and designed for demanding HPC and ML workloads.
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Building Domain Driven Microservices
Microservices — a definition
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SSH Emergency Access
Learn how to prepare for emergency access to your SSH hosts.
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Scaling Linux Services: Before accepting connections
Theo Julienne is a software & infrastructure engineer.
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How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
Leveraging AWS lightsail to achieve a minimal AWS bill
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Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler
One of the challenges of application engineering within an established company like Dropbox is to break out of the cycle of incremental improvements and look at a problem fresh. Our colleagues who do user research help by regularly reminding us of the customer’s perspective, but so can our friends and family when they…
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The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers
The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.
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What happens when you update your DNS
What happens when you update your DNS?
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Maersk, Me and NotPetya
Maersk is the world’s largest integrated shipping and container logistics company.
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The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without increasing consumer bills
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2020 Media Contact: Chelsea Eakin, ceakin@climatenexus.org, 347-371-1305 New national re…
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Gocker: Docker implemented in 1.3k lines of Go
They are popular and they are misunderstood. Containers have become the default way applications are packaged and run on servers, initially popularized by Docker. Now, Docker itself is misunderstoo…
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AWS Snowcone
Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge, and Snowball Edge Support for AWS Systems Manager. AWS…
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A shared file system for lambda functions
July 1, 2020: Post updated to take care that Amazon EFS increased file system minimum throughput, when burst credits are exhausted, to 1 MiB/s. I am very happy to announce that AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), a scalable and elastic NFS file system storing data within and…
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AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
I’ve often heard it said that AWS is a major contributor to Amazon’s profitability. How major? Here’s a graph covering the last ten quarters, with a brief methodology discussion:
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The rise of embarrassingly parallel serverless compute
How distributed serverless compute changes the game on whats possible
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Ansible Alternatives in Python
My VPS will soon expire, so I've decided to try to automate its deployment. After spending evening by studying Ansible alternatives, I've decided to use pyinfra, and I am quite happy with it.
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Best practices for managing and storing secrets like API keys and credentials
We have compiled a list of some of the best practices to prevent API key leakage and keep secrets and credentials safe. Secrets management doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all approach, so this list considers multiple perspectives so you can be informed in deciding to or not to implement strategies.
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Hermes – package manager and deployment tool for Linux
This post is the first public announcement of my new package manager and deployment tool for linux - hermes .
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AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service
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Speeding up a Git monorepo
We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance and began consolidating our repositories that hosted our backend code. But as this monorepo grew, we experienced Git performance issues that grew linearly with the number of files we added. Inconveniently, this problem was the most severe on…
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Self-Hosted Homelab Website
This website, along with a stack of other projects—including virtualization, remote observability, VPNs, NAS, and more—runs from my wall-mounted home lab.
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AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
This week’s analysis on multi-cloud being a bad idea is once again pushed back by breaking news. In this case, AWS is suing a former executive, Brian