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Docker not ready for primetime
I love Docker . It's so freakin' useful for distributing predictable runtime environments.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,377 posts.
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We should all be using dependency cooldowns
See cooldowns.dev for up-to-date information on cooldown adoption across various languages and package ecosystems.
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45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
NVIDIA’s latest AI servers can run on coolant warmer than a hot tub — and that counterintuitive choice is one of the biggest efficiency leaps in data center history.
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IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI.
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SSH Kung Fu
An extended look at SSH features that can serve a variety of purposes for different use cases.
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Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details
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JIT WireGuard
Our fancy WireGuard setup was accumulating stale peers. Here's what we did about it.
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Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
Kubernetes releases a new version every three months. We discuss where this pace comes from, why it's key to Kubernetes' success, and what it means for end-users.
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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Since Android is becoming increasingly more locked down and slopped, I'm jumping ship.
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Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
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…
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$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr
Updated on March 6th, 2017 since Vultr has updated their $5 offering. The data tables have been updated and the applicable sections have updates near the end of the section.
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Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
For better or worse, flyctl isn't boring. Here's why.
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Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down. I'm trying to browse the web, but about half of the sites show an error: cloudflare.webp Most of these sites are n...
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Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
Every millisecond matters when you're in the critical path of API authentication. After two years of fighting serverless limitations, we rebuilt our entire API stack and slashed the end-to-end latency.
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New for AWS Lambda: Use Any Programming Language and Share Common Components
I remember the excitement when AWS Lambda was announced in 2014! Four years on, customers are using Lambda functions for many different use cases. For example, iRobot is using AWS Lambda to provide compute services for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, Fannie Mae to run Monte Carlo simulations for millions of…
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How we ended up with microservices
Microservices are a thing these days.
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Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System
The Continental European (CE) Power System -a large synchronized area stretching from Spain to Türkiye and from Poland to Netherlands; encompassing 25 countries- is experiencing a continuous system frequency deviation from the mean value of 50 Hz, and this since mid of January 2018.
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AWS Snowcone
Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge, and Snowball Edge Support for AWS Systems Manager. AWS…
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Serverless Architectures
Serverless architectures replace a managed server with a collection of third party services and FaaS
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More details about the October 4 outage
Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…
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Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. Update …
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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Work around hard NATs and tricky networks with production-grade connectivity nodes you control