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Give Me Back My Monolith
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…
Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker
My story of replacing three servers, across two countries, running two operating systems with a single server running Alpine Linux and Docker.
Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances
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…
Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Using Let's Encrypt for Internal Servers (2018)
Let’s Encrypt is a revolutionary new certificate authority that provides free certificates in a completely automated process. These certificates are …
Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish
docker, kubernetes, cloud
Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes
What is a microservice? What is Kubernetes for? In this post, we try to explain microservices, containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes
Spidermon: Scrapinghub’s Now Open Sourced Spider Monitoring Library
Learn how to easily monitor scrapy spiders & validate data with Spidermon! Developed by Zyte Spidermon is now available as an open-source library.
Gremlin Free – Run chaos experiments to prevent outages
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The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities
we found that 44% of docker image scans had known vulnerabilities, and for which there were newer and more secure base image available. Most vulnerabilities originate in the base image you selected. For that reason, remediation should focus on base image fixes.
AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
A performance comparison between three different methods of deploying an API on AWS
Microsoft is Abandoning SHA-1 Hashes for Updates
Microsoft is shipping a patch to eliminate SHA-1 hashes from its update process. There’s nothing wrong with eliminating SHA-1—but their reasoning may be very interesting.
Announcing workers.dev
We are working really hard to allow you to deploy Workers without having a Cloudflare domain. You will soon be able to deploy your Cloudflare Workers to a subdomain-of-your-choice.workers.dev, which you can go claim now on workers.dev!
V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison
A cost and speed comparison between the Lambda Hyperplane 8 V100 GPU Server and AWS p3 GPU instances. A very similar comparison to the DGX-1.
AWS Nitro System
At Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton at the 2016 AWS re:Invent conference, I introduced the first Amazon Web Services custom silicon. The ASIC I showed formed the foundational core of our second generation custom network interface controllers and, even back in 2016, there was at least one of these ASICs going…
Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers
A complete and comprehensive guide to learn about, set up, and deploy Chaos Monkey and other similar tools for creating chaos. Download the whole guide.
An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum
Nearly 10 years after the first Storage Pod altered the storage landscape the innovation continues to deliver great returns to the market.
Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
Red Hat Satellite is a complex offering and we wanted to spend some time talking about the underlying databases that make Satellite work as well as some upcoming changes to this underlying database structure that you should be aware of.
Why are we templating YAML?
I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution
When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Move Fast and Migrate Things: How We Automated Migrations in Postgres
At Benchling, we’re building a platform to help scientists do research. Hundreds of thousands of scientists across academia and enterprise…
Openwrt 18.06.2 released
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