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Backups Aren't Simple
Starting from a wiped family photo drive, a walk through everything a real backup needs: snapshots, rotation, deduplication, offsite copies and tested restores.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,377 posts.
Infrastructure & DevOps
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Bun v0.8
Bun gets debugger support, fetch streaming, and `bun update`. ReadStream and WriteStream from `node:tty` are implemented, including raw mode on `process.stdin`. SvelteKit now works in Bun. Plus bug fixes and stability improvements.
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NixOS on Framework Laptop
The time has come to replace the work laptop (thanks, Mozilla!). Here is an adventure of setting up NixOS on a Framework laptop. I’m writing this on it right...
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An Update on Our Outage
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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It's tough being an Azure fan
Azure has never been the #1 cloud provider - that spot continues to belong to AWS, which is the category leader. However, in most people’s minds, it has been a pretty reasonable #2, and while not necessarily vastly differentiated from AWS there are enough things to write home about. However, even as a user and…
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My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story
A Home Assistant Love Story
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DigitalOcean VPC
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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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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Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
What hardware we're considering purchasing now that we have to move GitLab.com to metal.
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Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
Raspberry Pi for self hosting applications, locally secure private connection, install Tor Proxy, emby media server
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Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)
By default almost all WiFi access points transmit at full power (100mW on 2.4GHz). This gives maximum coverage and users see a good signal ("full bars"). However, there are good reasons to turn down the transmit power to a fraction of the maximum.
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Docker to rate limit image pulls
Docker announces significant upgrades to its subscription plans, delivering more value, flexibility, and tools for customers of all sizes.
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Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
There are lots of ways to accidentally spend too much money on AWS, and one of the easiest ways is by carelessly transferring data. As of writing, AWS charges the following rates for data transfer:
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AWS Lambda Cold Start Times
Let’s compare the performance of all supported runtimes + 2 custom runtimes (Rust and GraalVM).
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Hard Drive Stats for 2019
In 2019 we monitored the performance of 122,507 hard drives. In this article we look at the failure rates by make and model.
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Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.
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I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
I moved my projects from Kubernetes to Google Cloud Run because I did not want to pay for cluster operations, idle capacity, and job-running infrastructure.
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Operations is not Developer IT
My code doesn't compile. Why? The number of times in my career I have been asked a variation on "why doesn't my application work" is shocking. When you meet up with Operations people for drinks, you'll hear endless variations on it. Application teams attempting to assign ownership
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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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Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform
Today, we’re launching three new members of the Raspberry Pi Pico family: Raspberry Pi Pico W ($6), Pico H ($5) and Pico WH ($7).
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
My obsession with measuring the power consumption of my devices reached a whole new level.
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GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
There’s potential for massive profits: most customers of shared hosting and VPSes never come anywhere near their resource allocations so the machines can be extremely oversold, and most dedicated-server customers keep paying the “new” price of the server every month for years after its value has plummeted through the…
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Excessive load on NTP servers
Since last Tuesday some countries have seen an excessive number of queries to the NTP Pool. After much detective work on nanog (conclusion) and the #NTP IRC channel it was determined to be a buggy Snapchat app update.
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Kubernetes V1 Released
On behalf of the community, it’s our pleasure to announce that Kubernetes , the open source container orchestration system, has reached the...