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Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
BGP route leak interrupts access to Google’s services throughout the world. Traffic rerouted via Russia and China and slammed into the great firewall.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 299 posts.
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AWS Secrets Manager – Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
Today we’re launching AWS Secrets Manager which makes it easy to store and retrieve your secrets via API or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and rotate your credentials with built-in or custom AWS Lambda functions. Managing application secrets like database credentials, passwords, or API Keys is easy when…
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In Pursuit of Production Minimalism
Practicing minimalism with the lofty goal of total ephemeralization to build coherent, stable, and operable stacks.
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How we scaled Nginx
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of them.
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How modern Linux systems boot
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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There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc
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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Dtrace for Linux
Not explicitly mentioned in that talk, but certainly the most exciting thing, is that Oracle is doing a proper linux kernel port:
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gRPC-Web is going GA
On behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I’m excited to announce the GA release of gRPC-Web, a JavaScript client library that enables web apps to communicate directly with backend gRPC…
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Lessons Learned from Writing Over 300k Lines of Infrastructure Code
Infrastructure code lessons from a HashiConf 2018 talk by Gruntwork, with the video, the slides, and a condensed written version of five key takeaways.
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Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With
Let's talk about when it might be a good or bad idea to start using microservices. SPOILER ALERT: it's not the same for every project.
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Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine
News, updates, and best practices for developing apps on Google Cloud Platform.
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Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps
When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone executables (e.g. C/C++, COBOL), or else ran in an interpreter (e.g. Perl, Tcl). For many programmers, Java’s need for both a bytecode compiler and a runtime interpreter was a shift in thought. The compilation model…
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The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
We live in interesting times. The cloud offerings from Amazon, Google and Microsoft have led to a situation where world-class infrastructure is available to startups and solopreneurs for very cheap, and most of the times, they can even get started for free.
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Npm operational incident, 6 Jan 2018
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter
We’ve calculated Backblaze’s storage durability at 99.999999999%. What does that impressively large number mean, and does it actually matter for your data?
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AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
Many organizations use SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) as part of long-established data processing and partner integration workflows. While it would be easy to dismiss these systems as “legacy,” the reality is that they serve a useful purpose and will continue to do so for quite some time. We want to help our…
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Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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How we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel
Here's an in-depth recap of debugging a GitLab issue that culminated in a patch for the Linux kernel.