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Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the successor to WHOIS, which is being sunsetted on 28 January 2025.
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Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline
Today at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider.
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Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
Update, March 13, 2018 Wildcard certificate support is live. Let’s Encrypt will begin issuing wildcard certificates in January of 2018. Wildcard certificates are a commonly requested feature and we understand that there are some use cases where they make HTTPS deployment easier. Our hope is that offering wildcards…
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The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its widespread adoption is hindered by two key barriers: high latency and astronomical cost. Interactions with language models…
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Free Postgres databases for small projects
Announcing free Postgres storage on Fly.io.
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Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Discover how native ACME protocol support simplifies SSL/TLS certificate management by enabling direct configuration within NGINX.
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Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions pricing update: Discover lower runner rates (up to 39% off) following a major re-architecture for faster, more reliable CI/CD.
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust
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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
How the heck do we run a massively popular website and asset resource while being funded primarily by donations?
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Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
At the time of this article, Kubernetes is about six years old , and over the last two years, it has risen in popularity to consistently be one of the most loved platforms . This year, it comes in as the number three most loved platform . If you haven’t heard about Kubernetes yet, it’s a platform that allows you to…
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AWS's Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
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AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
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Docker 1.0
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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The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
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Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers
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Why I Built Litestream
Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity and cost by using SQLite & Litestream for your production applications.
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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more.
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Docker without Docker
Our users deliver software to us as Docker containers, but we don’t use Docker to run them. We transmogrify container images into Firecracker micro-VMs. Here's how.
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Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
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How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us
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What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?