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How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Every Browser Use Cloud session runs in its own Firecracker microVM on regular EC2. It starts in under a second and costs $0.02 per browser hour, down from $0.06.
Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
I will be pleased if you subscribe to my Instagram (instagram.com/uptime.lab) and Twitter (twitter.com/Merocle). I do not post any spam — only my own projects and quite rarely. Your subscription is essential to me! If you're wondering how it can be used and why, please look at the introduction in the first article…
Git without a forge
I’ve written quite a lot of free software in my life. Most of it was from scratch: projects I started myself. So I get to choose where to host them – or rather, I have to choose where to host them.
Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
Your AWS account is one of the most valuable things you own if you run a business on AWS. If you only own a single AWS accoun...
Bunny Database
Deploy globally, query over HTTP, and scale reads with low latency. Bunny Database lets you build fast without paying the serverless tax.
Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
Notes from a backend dev who builds and runs his own infra. Go, microservices, blockchain, self-hosting, homelab projects.
Fallout 4 Service Discovery and Relay
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Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist
Erik Bernhardsson
Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
ACME API lets our users automate their Public Certificate Lifecycle Management.
DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice…
Pulumi 3.0
Announcing Pulumi 3.0, the next major version of the Pulumi open source project.
Plane: Per-user backends for web apps
Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks now. They have flooded our server with hundreds of millions of requests and attempted to download our setup…
DEV-0537 targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction
The activity we have observed has been attributed to a threat group that Microsoft tracks as DEV-0537, also known as LAPSUS$. DEV-0537 is known for using a pure extortion and destruction model without deploying ransomware payloads.
Never update anything
Here's a fair warning: this article is reductio ad absurdum , therefore you shouldn't take it as gospel. However, i do believe that this point of view is extreme enough that it usually gets shut down immediately, yet doesn't have any frank discussion about it, which makes it the perfect subject for me to write about!…
SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel
SSH to machines in private networks using an SSH key, from anywhere in the world, using Cloudflare Tunnel.
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?
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…
Using S3 as a Container Registry
For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right…
Stop using low DNS TTLs
DNS latency is a key component to having a good online experience. And in order to minimize DNS latency, carefully picking DNS servers and anonymization...
How we use HashiCorp Nomad
A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.
Building a Personal VoIP System
Take control of your telephony with Asterisk!
Effectively Using Android Without Google Play Services with Gplayweb in Docker
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