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How long do disk drives last?
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Announcing Docker 1.9: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Nix: An idea whose time has come
Joe Armstrong once described Erlang as the quest for programs you “write once, run forever.” Nix, conversely, might be one that runs wherever, whenever.
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NixOS 21.05
This section lists the release notes for each stable version of NixOS and current unstable revision.
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Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
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Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
GitLab Staff Engineer Andrew Newdigate shares how we completed our migration to Google Cloud Platform, and how we overcame challenges along the way.
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Node.js is now available on App Engine standard environment
Developers love Google App Engine ’s zero-config deployments, zero server management and auto-scaling capabilities. At Google Cloud, our goal is to help you be more productive by supporting more popular programming languages. Starting today, you can now deploy your Node.js 8 applications to App Engine standard…
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Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder
At Google everything runs in containers, from Gmail to YouTube to Search. With Google Cloud Platform (GCP) we're bringing the scale and developer efficiencies we’ve seen with containers to our customers. From cluster management on Google Container Engine , to image hosting on Google Container Registry , to our…
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Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release
The Electric sync engine is now in BETA. If you haven't checked out Electric recently, it's a great time to take another look.
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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight
By Alok Tiagi, Hariharan Ananthakrishnan, Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan
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Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update
Over the past couple of years Heroku customers have occasionally reported unexplained latency on Heroku. There are many causes of latency—some of them have
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OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
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DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
Load balancing, simplified. Scale your apps and improve availability, security and performance across your infrastructure.
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Connect: A Better gRPC
Use Connect to build simple, stable, browser and gRPC-compatible APIs.
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Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
By Jun He, Natallia Dzenisenka, Praneeth Yenugutala, Yingyi Zhang, and Anjali Norwood
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Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017
In this update, we’ll review the Q2 2017 and lifetime hard drive failure rates for all our current drive models including enterprise and consumers drives.
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Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Explore Q2 2026 failure rates across 354,415 Backblaze drives, plus standout models and emerging CMR, SMR, and HAMR storage technologies.
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Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
Tech Report HuggingFace ModelScope Qwen Chat HuggingFace Demo ModelScope Demo DISCORD Introduction Two months after upgrading Qwen2.5-Turbo to support context length up to one million tokens, we are back with the open-source Qwen2.5-1M models and the corresponding inference framework support. Here’s what you can…
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Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
We're building AI Gateway into a unified inference layer for AI, letting developers call models from 14+ providers. New features include Workers AI binding integration and an expanded catalog with multimodal models.
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Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake
I’m excited to announce that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the first cloud provider to offer the next generation Intel Xeon processor, codenamed Skylake.
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Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites
34.9% of the top 1000 web sites rely on Nginx. That makes it the most trusted web server on high traffic sites, just ahead of Apache.
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Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage system
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Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it.
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Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
Why we use isolated VMs as a hard security boundary.
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Tailscale Funnel now available in beta
Learn how Tailscale Funnel lets users securely share local web servers with the public internet. Learn how to set up Funnel with TLS encryption, DNS management, and improved CLI commands for an easy, secure connection.
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CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
Read CircleCI’s security alerts from January 2023. Last updated 1/13/2023.
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