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The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 175 posts.
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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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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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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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GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
GitHub Actions now includes built-in CI/CD. Easily automate how you build, test, and deploy your projects on any platform, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
Update (September 23, 2020) – Over the last year, we’ve heard feedback from many customers who have asked us to extend the deprecation date. Based on this feedback we have decided to delay the deprecation of path-style URLs to ensure that customers have the time that they need to transition to virtual hosted-style…
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An update on last week's customer shutdown incident
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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The most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities
we found that 44% of docker image scans had known vulnerabilities, and for which there were newer and more secure base image available. Most vulnerabilities originate in the base image you selected. For that reason, remediation should focus on base image fixes.
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CERN migrates to open-source technologies
Update: The name of the project was changed to Microservice Architecture on Libre Technology (MALT) to better reflect its scope. More information in this article .
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018
This review looks at the hard drive failure rates by make and model for 100,000+ disk drives in operation in our data centers.
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Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices
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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Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
Red Hat Satellite is a complex offering and we wanted to spend some time talking about the underlying databases that make Satellite work as well as some upcoming changes to this underlying database structure that you should be aware of.
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The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
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Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
This is part one of a three-part series on considerations that companies will want to address if they decide to build their own cloud environment.
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HAProxy 2.0
HAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.0, bringing features critical for cloud-native and containerized environments.
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Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes in Ten Minutes
What is a microservice? What is Kubernetes for? In this post, we try to explain microservices, containers and Kubernetes in 10 minutes
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An update on Sunday’s service disruption
Yesterday, a disruption in Google’s network in parts of the United States caused slow performance and elevated error rates on several Google services, including Google Cloud Platform, YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive and others. Because the disruption reduced regional network capacity, the worldwide user impact varied…
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Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)
By default almost all WiFi access points transmit at full power (100mW on 2.4GHz). This gives maximum coverage and users see a good signal ("full bars"). However, there are good reasons to turn down the transmit power to a fraction of the maximum.
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Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
Starting at 1342 UTC today we experienced a global outage across our network that resulted in visitors to Cloudflare-proxied domains being shown 502 errors (“Bad Gateway”). The cause of this outage was deployment of a single misconfigured rule within the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me
Digital Ocean recently locked out a small startup. I'm scared I could be hit by a faulty abuse algorithm and a broken customer service process.
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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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Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
If you work in a newsroom, there’s a good chance you work with colleagues on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more. Google Workspace software is simple and powerful. But anyone working in a newsroom has probably asked themselves: What can Google see? What about our most sensitive conversations and documents? What…
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Terraform 0.12
We are very proud to announce that Terraform 0.12 is officially released. Terraform 0.12 is a major update that includes dozens of improvements and features spanning the breadth and depth of Terraform's functionality.
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GitHub Package Registry
With GitHub Package Registry your packages are at home with their code—sign up for the limited beta to try it out.
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Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
Hundreds of articles for game developers and enthusiasts.