Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,839 posts.
At the last Globo.com’s hackathon, Lucas Costa and I built a simple Lua library to provide a distributed rate measurement system that depends on Redis and run embedded in Nginx but before we …
Suppose you need to create a function for adding two numbers together in plain C. How would you write it? What sort of an API would it have?...
I frequently read about proposals for new solar power developments where the resulting power is moved great distances to less sunny places, such as northern Europe from the Sahara, the US North Eas…
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
A quick overview of Linux settings I change on almost every machine I manage.
I suggest that serverless computing, or “serverless” has hype that at this point has outpaced what the technology / philosophy / religion has been
Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data
As I said in my last post: S3 is NOT a CDN. It is an amazing Simple Storage Service, not a Simple Delivery Service. Via AWS: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make...
Kubernetes is a big and complicated technology and it clearly requires some time and dedication to wrap your head around. There is no vendor lock-in…
Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or RPCs, or just incoming packets to be routed at the network layer. We can get more specific later. What…
The thoughts and projects of an engineer who likes to convert solder, firmware, and wire into all sorts of different forms of entertainment.
There's a "hidden" API on HIBP. Well, it's not "hidden" insofar as it's easily discoverable if you watch the network traffic from the client, but it's not meant to be called directly, rather only via the web app. It's called "unified search" and it looks
Building resilience teams with chaos engineering principles.
How do you debug an application, library or an entire system with multiple processes? One answer: tracing. An introduction into bpftrace, and an overview of the Linux tracing ecosystem (DTrace, eBPF, uprobes, etc).
Due to continued visitation resulting in 404s to this article it has been restored from an older, and lost, version of this blog from content at – https://web.archive.org/web/20170811222717/https://www.robertputt.co.uk/2016/11/28/learn-from-your-attackers-ssh-honeypot/ , it may be incomplete, for example images being…
Looking beyond the hype and explaining why microservices should nearly become extinct.
There are many great options for managing FreeBSD Jails. iocage, warden and ez-jail aim to streamline the process and make it quick an easy to get going. But sometimes the tools built right into the OS are overlooked.
Migrating from a server-based solution to S3 static website resulted in increased performance and decreased costs
1 I usually rely on Minikube , though other solutions exist, like Kind , that can actually emulate multiple nodes. Multi-node support may eventually come for Minikube. A year ago, I decided I would build my own Kubernetes cluster. As a software engineer, I either use a local single-node Kubernetes cluster 1 , or a…
Let's take a look at the state of netbooting for Raspberry Pis including how and why you'd build a cluster and how well containers play with network booting
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
This is a collection of information on severe ( SEV-0 or SEV-1 , the most severe incident classifications) incidents at Twitter that were at least partially attributed to cache from the time Twitter started using its current incident tracking JIRA (2012) to date (2022), with one bonus incident from before 2012. Not…
