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Lessons Learned from Writing Over 300k Lines of Infrastructure Code
Infrastructure code lessons from a HashiConf 2018 talk by Gruntwork, with the video, the slides, and a condensed written version of five key takeaways.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,538 posts.
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Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance
Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want
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New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
N2D VMs are the first AMD-based instances on Google Cloud.
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A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups
So you've heard of this thing called cgroups, and you are interested in finding out more. Perhaps you caught mention of it while listening to a talk abou...
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Amazon Aurora Now Available
We announced Amazon Aurora last year at AWS re:Invent (see Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon for more info). With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver…
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Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
A word to the wise: Do not set any cron jobs for 2:00 am or 3:00 am on Sunday morning! Or to be safe, on other mornings besides Sunday as well, since jobs originally set to run on some particular day may eventually be changed to run on another day, or every day.
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Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected
Caltrain announced at its monthly Board of Directors meeting that regenerative braking on the new trains is generating and sending back to the electric grid approximately 23% of the energy consumed by the system.
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AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
Many AWS customers are running memory-intensive big data, caching, and analytics workloads and have been asking us for EC2 instances with ever-increasing amounts of memory. Last fall, I first told you about our plans for the new X1 instance type. Today, we are announcing availability of this instance type with the…
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Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises
In my previous blog posts, Azure’s Weakest Link? and Azure’s Weakest Link - Full Cross-Tenant Compromise, I gave an overview of the severely insecure architecture behind API Connections in Azure, a part of Azure Logic Apps, and an instance of a full cross-tenant compromise using these inherent flaws. Now I am back…
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A $1k AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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Swift Static Linux SDK
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
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GCP Incidents
Over the last 18 months we've had more than a handful of issues with Google Cloud. The incidents, in detail, ahead of our move off Google.
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We don’t use Kubernetes
“No, we don’t use Kubernetes”. That always gets raised eyebrows... so we decided to write about our reasoning behind this cloud architecture decision.
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Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions, click here. A couple of months ago, we gave you a sneak peek as we designed
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Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available and ready for your production needs.
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“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”
Emory's Microsoft 365 software license is available to all Emory Employees (Faculty, Staff, Students and Healthcare) and is paid for by Emory. The license includes five (5) add-on subscription products that are available to Faculty, Staff and researchers for a nominal monthly fee.
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YC Tech Stacks
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020
The AFR for 2020 dropped below 1% down to 0.93%. In 2019, it stood at 1.89%. That’s over a 50% drop year over year.
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Disposable Root Servers
Unlimited, free and dedicated Kali Linux Root Shells - readily set up for hackers. Traffic via VPNs. Accessible directly or via TOR. NO LOGZ.
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Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine
News, updates, and best practices for developing apps on Google Cloud Platform.
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Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
Custom PHP2Shell Exploit Chained with Kernel LPE to Root Versions of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Firewalls in the Wild