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Caches help reduce latency, scale read-heavy workloads, and save cost. They are literally everywhere. Caches run on your phone and in your browser. For example, CDNs and DNS are essentially geo-rep…
All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients
Yesterday, Apple did release RosettaLinux as part of the macOS Ventura preview. Let’s take a first quick look…
Learn what toil is in SRE, how it affects operational work, and why minimizing it is crucial for efficiency and morale.
Sind Container-Images, Docker und Kubernetes keine Fremdwörter für Dich? Hast Du gehört, Docker sei tot? Dieser technische Blog Post hilft, Gerüchte aufzuklären.
Yes, some people do it, and yes, for some people, it works fine. But..... If you're standing up a new server and it has an IPv6 IP address, ...
After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.
Use Connect to build simple, stable, browser and gRPC-compatible APIs.
How I chose parts, built, and configured my first custom home storage server.
For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.
Update on plans to re-enable the Github integration from Heroku Product Management and Heroku Principal Architect.
Announcing Fly Machines
DigitalOcean Functions is a fast, scalable, and cost-effective compute solution that enables you to build quickly, scale automatically, and save costs by removing the need to pay for idle resources.
Here's the summary of the hardware and the software that powers Healthchecks.io. Hardware Since 2017, Healthchecks.io runs on dedicated servers at Hetzner. The current lineup is: HAProxy servers: 4x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)Web servers: 3x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)PostgreSQL servers: 2x…
Shopify shares some of the lessons we learned and solutions we built in order to run Airflow at scale.
Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic , and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message…
For every deploy, scale down event, or pod termination, users of GitLab's Pages service were experiencing 502 errors. This explains how we found the root cause and rolled out a fix for it.
Husky is an unbundled, distributed, schemaless, vectorized column store. Here’s how we built it—and why.
Hartley writes about full stack software engineering and AI-driven software development.
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Something I miss after emigrating from the UK to the USA is the using the name of a yeast extract based spread as an adjective. To describe something as “marmite”
Litestream replicates SQLite databases in real-time to S3.
Fifteen years later, developers are still trying to recreate the developer experience of Heroku. Yet, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Why did Heroku fail? Was it just incompetent managemen...
Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard
Today, we’re excited to announce D1, Cloudflare’s first SQL database, designed for Cloudflare Workers
