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Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?
Earlier this year, a user at Practical ZFS asked a deceptively simple question: I have a Proxmox pool of three four-wide RAIDz1 vdevs. Whenever my VM is running, all twelve... Read More
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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half
A rack-scale design that drives data center power efficiency.
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Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance
The Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is an integrated hardware and software solution that lets you run workloads at the tactical edge.
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Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
Healthchecks.io ping endpoints accept HTTP HEAD, GET, and POST request methods. When using HTTP POST, clients can include an arbitrary payload in the request body. Healthchecks.io stores the first 100kB of the request body. If the request body is tiny, Healthchecks.io stores it in the PostgreSQL database. Otherwise…
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The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows
Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible.
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Google Cloud’s Secrets Manager
Secret Manager is a new GCP product that securely and conveniently stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
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Bun 0.3
Massive reduction in memory usage, faster text encoding, improved Jest compatibility, file-system routing, automatic package installs, and a lot more
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eBPF – The Future of Networking and Security
Isovalent, the company behind Cilium, is announcing its $29M Series A financing round. Lets take a deeper look into where eBPF-based ...
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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.
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Kubernetes Security Best Practices
By Connor Gilbert, product manager at StackRox Last month, the Kubernetes ecosystem was shaken by the discovery of the first major security flaw in Kubernetes, the world’s most popular container…
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I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing
After 5 years in DevOps, I moved into Solutions Engineering. Here’s what I was missing, what changed, and who this path might be for.
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A Tour Inside CloudFlare's Latest Generation Servers
CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month.
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Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
Launching Supabase Storage and how you can use it in your apps
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Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure
A practical guide to building a SaaS product on a 100% European stack: hosting, payments, CDN, analytics, and transactional email.
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Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible
Today, we announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, a popular IT automation tool launched in early 2013. Like in any acquisition, customers and partners will likely have a number of questions, so let me get straight to the point and cover the top three questions I anticipate: Why an IT automation solution?…
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Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD
An article demonstrating immutable software deployments using ZFS snapshots and FreeBSD jails, with Caddy as a health‑checked reverse proxy for zero‑downtime upgrades.
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Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
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Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
On 11th February, Let’s Encrypt will be rolling out a change to the certificates they issue to servers by default. Although there is generally nothing that Prosody operators need to do, servers using the new certificates may experience problems connecting to some other XMPP servers on the network.
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Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses
In this article we use data from RIPE Atlas probes to investigate the usage of 240/4, a block of IPv4 addresses 'reserved for future use', formally known as Class E in the wild.
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What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP
In 2015 we migrated Quizlet from our legacy host to a large cloud provider. AWS is the default choice for most companies, but after comparing the options, we went with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a summary of our analysis.
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Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
I’m not a fan of WordPress, as it is neither cloud-ready nor serverless. That’s why this blog runs on CloudFront and S3 and i...
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Tunnel via Cloudflare to any TCP service
Cloudflare's cloudflared tunnels are commonly used to 'publish' a web server that runs behind a firewall (e.g. making the webserver accessible from the…
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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…
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Running BGP in large-scale data centers
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol …
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