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Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline
The amount of data being produced around the world is staggering and continues to grow at an exponential rate. Given this growing volume of ...
Cloudflare One
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.
Let's Create a Simple Load Balancer with Go
Load Balancers plays a key role in Web Architecture. In this post we are going to develop a simple load balancer with power of Go
Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
Over time, a system collects state on its root partition. This state lives in assorted directories like /etc and /var , and represents every under-documented or out-of-order step in bringing up the services.
Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
Self hosting a software stack to replace Google Maps on an unused gaming PC.
We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
Oooooh boy. Let’s get this out of the way first. Email sucks. Now to the how and the why. We’re builders. We love making tools to help designers and developers live a little bit easier. We’re pretty good at it. Marketing, though? We do our best, but the truth is, we don’t like to bother […]
Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
When a datacenter fire threatened 142 of my servers, my backup strategy had them back online in hours. This post shares my personal philosophy on creating a resilient system, focusing on the crucial planning that must happen before you write a single script.
Tailscale Peer Relays
Tailscale Peer Relays provide predictable, performant access, entirely within your own tailnet.
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.
Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud
Posted by Zak Stone, Product Manager for TensorFlowResearchers require enormous computational resources to train the machine learning (ML) models t...
WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
Learn how WebSockets caused Recall.ai's AWS bill to spike $1M and what architectural changes the team made to lower the cost.
Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough
This particular blog post was sitting on my mind for a long time. I don’t want to start a flame war, but at the same time I also don’t wish for Linux community to build and grow upon ad-hoc solutions that we’ve accumulated over the last 30 years to the packaging and deployment problems. History of Linux automation…
Archival Storage
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...
Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
In this article, you will learn what stands behind the label immutable when it comes to Linux systems
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GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
We are excited to announce our partnership with DigitalOcean, the world’s simplest cloud infrastructure provider.
IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure
Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!
Deploys at Slack
Deploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability. At Slack, we value quick iteration, fast feedback loops, and responsiveness to customer feedback. We also have hundreds of engineers who are trying to be as productive as possible. Keeping to these values while growing as a company means continual refinement…
A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
Security for everyone. Docker Hardened Images are now free to use, share, and build on with no licensing surprises.
Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
Ubuntu 22.10 improves the experience of IT administrators and enterprise developers with a particular focus on the IoT ecosystem. […]
March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
An update on our findings, the actions we’ve taken, and technical details of the bug.
I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.