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Microservice-based architecture gains popularity every day. This approach has many advantages. The most important advantages include independent deployments, shortened and simplified deployment pipelines, limited communication between teams, and technology freedom. These core advantages support the quick delivery of…
I’ve been fascinated by high-volume, fault-tolerant data storage systems for a long time. I started my data storage setup in earnest with a 4-disk RAID 5 array on an ARC-1210 controller installed in my daily-driver Windows desktop. When that array inevitably filled up, I added another array on a second ARC-1210. That…
Half of the web still runs on Apache's web server, but one third already uses Nginx, and the gap is closing fast. We have a closer look at the detailed statistics and trends.
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Elastic Load Balancing Adds Support for Host-based Routing and Increased Rules on its Application Load Balancer
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
Today, we gave a keynote presentation at the Open Networking Summit, where we shared details about Espresso, Google’s peering edge architecture—the latest offering in ou…
tl;dr For several years I managed the 3rd line site reliability operation for many of the world’s busiest gambling sites, working for a little-known company that built and ran the core backen…
Last year we launched new AWS Regions in Canada, India, Korea, the UK (London), and the United States (Ohio), and announced that new regions are coming to France (Paris) and China (Ningxia). Today, I am happy to be able to tell you that we are planning to open up an AWS Region in Stockholm, Sweden […]
In software, a canary process is usually the first instance that receives live production traffic about a new configuration update, either a binary or configuration rollout.
Design differences of containers, Zones, Jails and VMs.
The Forces That Call for Microservices
We are excited to announce that Automated Certificate Management is generally available, at no additional charge, for all applications running on Hobby...
We've released Terraform 0.9. Terraform is a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching any infrastructure. Since our last major Terraform release, we had 8 minor releases to add and improve hundreds of resources and dozens of providers and the number of community contributors has increased…
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Lessons learned in scaling out the PostgreSQL database in the cloud using Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that is also available as a fully-managed database as a service. From operational pain points like HA to disaster recovery to backups to monitoring and logging and alerts.
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