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Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
I took a spare ThinkPad T430 and put all my home server workloads on it. Here's how it went.
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Cloud TPU VMs are generally available
Cloud TPU VMs with Ranking & Recommendation acceleration are generally available on Google Cloud. Customers will have direct access to TPU host machines.
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I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io
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The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open-source
As the first announcement of Platform Week, today Cloudflare is announcing the open sourcing of the Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license
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Deploying Kubernetes clusters in increasingly absurd languages
It’s been over 3 years since I published my most successful blog post about the abject horror of templated yaml and in many ways, I feel the same way now
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Zero downtime migrations
As a backend developer at a mobile app company, a common task was migrating a database schema.This could be to improve query performance, change column ...
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022
Backblaze wants to be as transparent as possible with our customers about our business. Here’s what you need to know about our drives in Q1 2022.
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Introducing ArcticDB: A Database for Observability
Continuous profiling needed a columnar database, so we built it.
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What are your most used self-hosted applications?
The list that's always growing. What are your most used self hosted applications? Here's mine.
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I won free load testing
Long story short: a couple of my articles got really popular on a bunch of sites, and someone, somewhere, went “well, let’s see how much traffic that smart-ass can handle”, and suddenly I was on th...
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Twelve-factor app anno 2022
The Twelve-factor app methodology turns 10. This blog posts re-evaluates the original factors against a decade of experience with software-as-a-service development and the maturing of serverless development.
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Best practices for optimizing Lambda functions
Learn how to get the most out of your serverless functions
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Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage
This PIR is available in the following languages:日本語 Letter from our co-founders & co-CEOs We want to acknowledge the outage that disrupted service for customers earlier this month. We understand that our products are mission critical to your business, and we don’t take that responsibility lightly. The buck stops with…
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Running Containers on AWS Lambda
Learn how to run containers on AWS Lambda and leverage the scalability and cost-saving benefits of serverless computing. This article explores the ...
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MCC (Master Chief Collection) Server Incident Summary
<p>A deep dive into the recent incident that affected matchmaking and the custom games browser in Halo: MCC on April 1.</p>
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We unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness
On Thursday, November 18, 2021, Dropbox did not go down. On a normal day this would be a non-event—a sign that everything was operating as usual. However, this day was anything but usual. At 5:00 pm PT, a group of Dropboxers were huddled on a Zoom call when the command was given to physically unplug our San Jose data…
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UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
The Morocco – UK Power Project, Xlinks’ most publicised venture, is designed to deliver 8% of Great Britain’s current electricity needs (3.6GW of clean, reliable power), which is enough for seven million homes.
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In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.
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You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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Home lab beginners guide (2021)
My home lab in a 12U rack as of March 2026. What is a Home Lab? Think of a home lab as a place where you can fail in the privacy of your own home. As
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Netlify Edge Functions: A new serverless runtime powered by Deno
Build fast, personalized web experiences with Netlify Edge Functions: a serverless runtime built for on Deno, and compatible with your favorite JavaScript frameworks.
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How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database
Last fall, we migrated our 4TB Postgres database from version 9.6 to version 13 with minimal downtime. Here is how we did it (gotchas included).
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Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker
Firecracker is the technology which powers Serverless, but it can be also be repurposed to run end-to-end tests quickly and cheaply.
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Migrating from SQLite to PostgreSQL
Product updates, comparisons, and deep dives on database change management, access control, and compliance from the Bytebase engineering team.
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I hope distributed is not the new default
I miss people. :-(