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The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.
I’ve been building a Kubernetes based platform at $work now for almost a year, and I’ve become a bit of a Kubernetes apologist. It’s true, I think the technology is
IaC uses code to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure. In part one of this IaC miniseries, I will introduce you to the basic concepts and explain some of the benefits.
Nodecraft moved 23TB of customer backup files from AWS S3 to Backblaze B2 in just 7 hours, and saved big on egrees fees with Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance.
Microservice architecture paradigm fits well within the Unix’s first principle/philosophy: “Make one program do one thing well”. We l...
Get the latest cloud storage news here from Google Cloud, with a new archive storage class and Persistent Disk updates.
By default almost all WiFi access points transmit at full power (100mW on 2.4GHz). This gives maximum coverage and users see a good signal ("full bars"). However, there are good reasons to turn down the transmit power to a fraction of the maximum.
Today we’re announcing the beta of Cloud Run, our new serverless compute platform for containerized apps with portability built-in.
A portable development environment, from editor to dependencies.
Recently, we expanded Heroku’s industry-shaping primitives, adding support for client-side browser apps, composed of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This built-in support for static web apps joins the existing Heroku Buildpacks: Ruby, Python, Go, Java, Clojure, Scala, Node.js, PHP, and .NET.
Forth has been called lots of things and it was something that I figured we could easily unikernelize so I dove into it. I think it's safe to say I've never written any production Forth nor do I see myself doing so but having said that - let's begin!
If, like me, you’re over 40 and work in IT, you’ll probably remember a time when everyone used Windows, and a small but growing proportion of people were wasting their lives compiling Linux in their spare time.
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.14, our first release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.14 consists of 31 enhancements: 10 moving to stable, 12 in beta, and 7 net new. The main themes of this release are extensibility and supporting more workloads on Kubernetes with three major features moving to general…
Take manual control of your Linux system’s DNS resolution and keep programs from interfering with and overwriting your resolv.conf file.
AWS EC2 Secret sauce. How AWS provisions Windows EC2 in the cloud. Instance Pool.
At the last Globo.com’s hackathon, Lucas Costa and I built a simple Lua library to provide a distributed rate measurement system that depends on Redis and run embedded in Nginx but before we …
As a founding member of the Open Compute Project (OCP) community, Facebook embraces a collaborative approach to solving industry-wide problems. One of the more pressing problems facing the industry…
It feels like we’re starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices. It’s no longer multiple times a week we now see a blog post of “How I migrated my monolith to 150 services”. Now I often hear a bit more of the counter: “I don’t hate my monolith, I just care that things stay performant”. We’ve actually…
My story of replacing three servers, across two countries, running two operating systems with a single server running Alpine Linux and Docker.
With an ideal mix of compute, memory, and networking, General Purpose virtual machines are the default choice for reliable performance across most common applications. Whether you’re scaling dev/test environments or hosting production-grade applications, these instances deliver consistent performance and value for a…
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Let’s Encrypt is a revolutionary new certificate authority that provides free certificates in a completely automated process. These certificates are …
