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Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively
Apache Iceberg and Parquet now support native geospatial types, connecting Wherobots, PostGIS, Sedona, Databricks, and Snowflake to one table format.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,378 posts.
Infrastructure & DevOps
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How we moved to Google Cloud using Consul and ZeroTier with zero downtime
Our old hosting provider was having network issues... again. There had been a network split around 3:20 AM, which had caused a few of our worker servers to become disconnected from the rest of our network. The background jobs on those workers kept trying to reach our other services until their timeout was reached, and…
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My RabbitMQ setup for notifications
I recently decided to try out RabbitMQ (the popular messaging queue) to fix the problem of notifications.
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Open sourcing Terratest: tools for testing infrastructure code
Open sourcing Terratest, a library for testing infrastructure code: write automated tests for Terraform, Packer, Docker, and AWS to catch bugs early.
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Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale
In a recent blog post entitled “Monorepos: Please don’t,” Matt Klein discusses the pros and cons - as it turns out, mostly cons in his view - of monorepos. The long and short of it is that he thinks that they are not a good fit for most teams. After thinking about this question for a few years I have come to the…
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Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting
I had never been a fan of devops/server-admin work. The sheer number of headaches involved in setting up the services, configuring them, automating them, and ensuring their reliability were just annoying and time-consuming. PaaS offerings like Heroku, AWS—and later—Railway, and Render, were appealing options out of…
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The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare
moved this website 'worldofmatthew.com' away from CloudFlare back in August 2020.That should have been the end of the relation with CloudFlare for my website.
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Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
We analyzed if AWS’ N. Virginia region remains the least reliable in 2025. Overview of outages, affected services, and the massive October 20 AWS incident, with insights from StatusGator’s real-time monitoring.
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The security scanner that cried wolf
If you’ve ever been alarmed by how many security vulnerabilities your Docker image has, even after you’ve installed security updates, here’s what’s going on.
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How Netflix uses Druid for realtime insights
By Ben Sykes
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Building binary deb packages: a practical guide
How to ship your apps on Debian and derivatives.
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A faster path to container images in Bazel
rules_img is a Bazel ruleset for building and publishing OCI images that feel native to Bazel by treating images as metadata first and moving bytes only at the edges.
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Supply Chain Attack Using PyPI Packages “Colorslib”, “Httpslib”, and “Libhttps”
The FortiGuard Labs team discovered an attack embedded in three PyPI packages called ‘colorslib’, ‘httpslib’, and “libhttps”. Read our blog to learn more.…
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Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1
The Minisforum MS-R1 uses the same Cix CD8180 Arm SoC as the Orion O6 I reviewed earlier this year. But everything else about this thing is different. What this thing should be, is a box that runs Linux and can compete with at least an Apple M1 Mac mini, or a mid-range Mini PC. But what we got... is something…
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Head in the Zed Cloud
For the past five months I've been leading the efforts to rebuild Zed 's cloud infrastructure.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives.