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Infrastructure & DevOps
Any year
2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
It finally happened!
Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
Got compute- and memory-hungry applications? We’ve got you covered, with new machine types that have up to 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of memory—a 50% increase in compute resources per Google Compute Engine VM. These machine types run on Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Skylake), and offer the most vCPUs of any cloud…
Monorepo: please do
You should choose a monorepo because the default behavior it encourages in your teams is visibility and shared responsibility, especially…
AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
I’ve often heard it said that AWS is a major contributor to Amazon’s profitability. How major? Here’s a graph covering the last ten quarters, with a brief methodology discussion:
Why Reddit was down for 6 hours
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Learn about Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.
K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due
Kubernetes Service Meshes aren't free anymore, what teams need to know moving forward.
Rocky Linux 9.0
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.0. Release notes are available in the Rocky Linux Documentation - these notes con...
GitLab Serverless
The true value of serverless is best realized via a single-application DevOps experience – that's why we're launching GitLab Serverless.
Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS
A multi-company team led by ARRAY delivered for the U.S. Air Force a successful modernization of a COBOL-based system running on aged mainframes to a Java-based system running on x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). AWS provides the system's capabilities for reliability, scalability, and this post describes the…
Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule
Let’s Encrypt has reached a point where we’re ready to announce our launch schedule. First certificate: Week of July 27, 2015 General availability: Week of September 14, 2015 We will issue the first end entity certificates under our root under tightly controlled circumstances. No cross-signature will be in place yet…
Grafana Tempo, a scalable distributed tracing system
Tempo is designed to be a robust trace id lookup store whose only dependency is object storage (GCS/S3).
Hello IPv6: a minimal tutorial for IPv4 users
A short IPv6 tutorial, explaining the basics, primarily for home and small networks.
10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
I already had 2.5Gb/s working. Here's how I upgraded the whole house to 10Gb/s Ethernet -- including real iperf3 numbers, MikroTik switches, scary thermals, and what actually worked.
What domain name to use for your home network
Always use the ‘.home.arpa’ top-level domain (RFC 8375), and don’t use the special-purpose ‘.local,’ or made-up undelegated domain names like ‘.lan’ or ‘.home.’
Clock synchronization is a nightmare
Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…
Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions
The portfolio of AWS storage products has grown increasingly rich and diverse over time. Amazon S3 started out with a single storage class and has grown to include storage classes for regular, infrequently accessed, and archived objects. Similarly, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) began with a single volume…
The McMurdo Wastewater Treatment Plant
Sweet, sweet humidity.
Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool
The new on-call management tool is available in beta preview for Grafana Cloud users with both free and paid plans.