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The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
System administration is in a sad state. It in a mess.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 69 posts.
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Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production
Docker’s momentum has been increasing by the week, and from that it’s clearly touching on real problems. However, for many production users today, the pros do not outweigh the cons. Docker has done fantastically well at making containers appeal to developers for development, testing and CI environments—however, it has…
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How we ended up with microservices
Microservices are a thing these days.
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GitFlow considered harmful
GitFlow is the most popular Git branching model. After using it (and, more importantly, after seeing how it is used) for over a year now, I can say with confidence: I hate it. In the article, I try to explain why, and offer a better alternative.
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The microservices cargo cult
Microservices are awesome. We know this because of all the success stories that are circulating lately. The news is full of such stories, of people taking large, monolithic codebases, breaking them up, adding HTTP APIs and enjoying all the benefits.
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Your own Debian Mail Server (part II): how to prove you are not a spammer
TL;DR: check mail-tester.com or Spam Checker. If you don't get 10/10, read this post. In a previous post, we saw how to configure a Debian mail server with Postfix and Dovecot, but we did not address an important issue: spam. Major e-mail providers are defending their users …
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Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do DevOps Anymore
The story of one programmer’s journey into, and vehement rejection of, this thing we call “DevOps” – lessons learned, sound advice and why you’re probably doing it all…
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The sad state of web app deployment
I spent a good chunk of the last four days installing an Internet web forum, which claims it can be up and running in 30 minutes. I like to think I’m pretty alright at computers. So what went wrong here? Well let me tell you.
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FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture
We were given the task to stream the FIFA 14 World Cup and I think this was an experience worth sharing. This is a quick overview about: the architecture, the components, the pain, the learning, th…
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AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
It’s a bit of a sensationalistic title, but hear me out. And sorry for the boring-ish example in this article. This is designed to only excite people who really get it. :)
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Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve
The Hypervisor.framework user mode virtualization API introduced in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) cannot only be used for toy projects like the hvdos DOS Emulator, but is full-featured enough to support a full virtualization solution that can for example run Linux.
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NixOS and Stateless Deployment
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Hostnames and usernames to reserve
If you're setting up a service where people can register their own usernames to be used as a hostname (username.example.com), email address (username@example.com), or URL path (example.com/username) within your domain, there are some common names you should avoid letting the general public register. Many …
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HAproxy in the era of Microservices
Tales of a Software Craftsman
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Why I dislike systemd
As a Linux sysadmin in the 2010s, it's hard not to have an opinion on systemd. But what I find baffling about it is how divisive it is; nearly everyone (or at least the most vocal crowd) seems to either love it or hate it. When I tell people that systemd was the catalyst for my defection to OpenBSD last year, their…
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Notes from Facebook's Developer Infrastructure at Scale F8 Talk
Any time Facebook talks about technical matters I tend to listen. They have a track record of demonstrating engineering leadership in several spaces. And, unlike many companies that just talk, Facebook often gives others access to those ideas via source code and healthy open source projects. It's rare to see a company…
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