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Introducing zetcd
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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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Why are we templating YAML?
I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution
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Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
Over the last few months, Baker and I have been digging in deep on Heat Pumps . I'm putting my explorations here on pause but wanted to write up everything we've learned over the last few months.
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Just use a monorepo
In which I tell you that you're overcomplicating things and you should throw everything behind a single git repository.
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Tracing: Structured logging, but better
It is no secret that I am not a fan of logs; I’ve baited (rapala in work lingo. Rapala is a Finnish brand of fishing lure, and used to mean baiting in this context) discussion in our work chat with things like: If you’re writing log statements, you’re doing it wrong. This is a pretty incendiary statement, and while…
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We disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing
Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience…
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Docker Image Insecurity
Docker's report that a downloaded image is "verified" is based solely on the presence of a signed manifest, and Docker never verifies the image checksum from the manifest.
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Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler
Today we announce Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler designed for microservices and batch workloads. Nomad is distributed, highly available, and scales to thousands of nodes spanning multiple datacenters and regions. Nomad provides a common workflow to deploy applications across an infrastructure. Developers use a…
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Five Months of Kubernetes
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Why is it so hard to build an airport?
Airports are a critical piece of modern infrastructure.
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What has Docker become?
Docker Inc's journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here's what their strategic shifts tell us about the company's search for identity.
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The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)
Why I joined my company's CI team to fix Jenkins, the two options we weighed, and what I learned about developer-productivity work.
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The Dunant subsea cable
The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
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Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
On November 25th, one of our engineers was compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain worm. Here's what happened, how we responded, and what we've changed.
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Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
Experiences with the Matrix protocol, Matrix Synapse server, bridges, and Element mobile apps.
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Why host your own LLM?
In the Terminator movies, good relationships beat technological superiority. Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor outwit the advanced T-800 who in turn helps Sarah and John beat the ultra-advanced T-1000. OpenAI’s GPT-4 is currently the most advanced publicly available language model. There are also analyses showing it’s…
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Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
Materialize offers a streaming data warehouse for real-time analytics & interoperability with millisecond latency, revolutionizing data handling.
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Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler
PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
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Understanding Solar Energy
The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.
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We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
We moved MongoDB Atlas off AWS and onto self-hosted Hetzner boxes — 90% cost cut, no performance loss. Here's the setup, the Ansible, and what broke.
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Bun 1.4
Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an opt-in global virtual store for up to 7× faster installs.
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AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight
Folks have been making noises for a while that Amazon is anti-competitive in a variety of ways. I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, but there’s one particular aspect of how AWS advantages its own offerings that I don’t see folks talking about–and strikes me as particularly egregious.
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A better Kubernetes from the ground up
If we were to start over from first principles, what would I do differently than k8s?
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Airflow's Problem
In 2022, data engineers manage forests, not trees
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Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack
One of the best ways to find ways to improve performance, we’ve found, is to work closely with our customers. We love shared troubleshooting sessions with their own engineering teams to find and eliminate bottlenecks.
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Workers AI: Serverless GPU-powered inference
We are excited to launch Workers AI - an AI inference as a service platform, empowering developers to run AI models with just a few lines of code, all powered by our global network of GPUs
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Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink
Overview of basic analytics during that one time my blog post got traction on HackerNews, and the steps I took to prepare for just this occasion.
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Kaniko: Build container images in Kubernetes
Building images from a standard Dockerfile typically relies upon interactive access to a Docker daemon, which requires root access on your machine to run. This can make it difficult to build container images in environments that can’t easily or securely expose their Docker daemons, such as Kubernetes clusters (for…
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Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure
As a software developer, I know first-hand how difficult it is to build quality products quickly and cheaply. It’s an art form that we sometimes get right, and other times devolves into something akin to the Obama era healthcare government site. Our level of control over the resulting product varies, and blame for…