The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 354 posts.
At the time of this article, Kubernetes is about six years old , and over the last two years, it has risen in popularity to consistently be one of the most loved platforms . This year, it comes in as the number three most loved platform . If you haven’t heard about Kubernetes yet, it’s a platform that allows you to…
A collection of kernel and userland settings one can change to improve the security and usability of a Linux system. Targeted at Arch, but should work for other distros too.
Streaming pipelines on AWS can be expensive. Here’s how we cut AWS costs 67% without reserved instances or savings plans
Is that a good thing?
I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large.
I have a small collection of servers, laptops and desktops. My servers were purchased and configured at different times. By design, they have different hardware and software configurations. I have processors from AMD, Intel, Ampere and Rockchip. I have a wide range of Linux distributions, both old and new. I also…
What is RabbitMQ? Find out about this open-source message broker in our introduction to the powerful Message Queue tech.
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
The Grafana 7.0 release is full of major new features and enhancements. Find out all the details here.
Common Kubernetes mistakes: missing resource limits, misconfigured probes, no ingress controller, wrong autoscaling, weak RBAC, missing anti-affinity and PDBs.
Say goodbye to Kafka ZooKeeper dependency! KIP-500 introduces a new way of storing data in Kafka itself, rather than in external systems such as ZooKeeper.
You can now create organization secrets, reducing the need to duplicate secrets across repositories. Access policies let you control which repositories have access to the organization secret Updating a secret…
VMware Engine is a fully managed offering that lets enterprises run existing virtual machines on Google Cloud infrastructure.
Hyperdrive is now faster and more reliable. Plus it comes with a daemon.
Connectivity is at the heart of our mission to give people the power to build community. We are committed to bringing more people online to a faster internet — and with 3.5 billion people globally …
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being used within Microsoft Azure. They had proudly stat…
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It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]
Soon the Windows May 2020 Update (20H1) will be released upon the world. This update will contain some nice UI improvements, but most relevant to me it allows Web Developers on Windows to upgrade to WSL 2. This is a significant milestone in the #davegoeswindows saga and it’s worth posting about what it means going…
