Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,377 posts.
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
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Bitbucket Cloud is introducing Pipelines to let your team build, test, and deploy from Bitbucket. It is built right within Bitbucket, giving you end-to-end visibility from coding to deployment. With Bitbucket Pipelines there's no CI server to setup, user management to configure, or repositories to synchronize. Just…
When the Tarsnap EC2 instance came back online about an hour later, I found that the abrupt loss of power had resulted in filesystem corruption. As I explained in a blog post in December 2008, Tarsnap stores all user data in Amazon S3, but keeps metadata cached in EC2 . While I could not see any evidence that the…
Deploy Go apps as single static binaries with systemd. No Docker, no npm, zero-downtime via socket activation. Modern complexity is often unnecessary.
Recently, 37signals unveiled mrsk , a tool developed internally to ease with deployments of their services and an accompanying blog post which sparked a lengthy discussion on Hacker News .
TL;DR: I set up Minikube on an old (2012) MacBook Air and configured it to be able to connect from outside my home network so I would have an always-on Kubernetes cluster at home to experiment with.
You bump into DORA in the wild a lot.
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services. Today, ACK is available as a developer preview on GitHub. In this post we will give you a brief…
Anthos for AWS is now GA, and can manage legacy workloads
Today Vantage announces the launch of automated cost savings recommendations for all users with connected AWS accounts. Vantage will now automatically profile AWS account...
Who knew figuring out the lab's occupancy would be so much work?!
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
The “official” Python Docker image is useful, but to actually understand why, and to use it correctly, it’s worth understanding how exactly it’s constructed.
Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GAIn a previous blog - Containerd Brings More Container Runtime Options for Kubernetes, we introduced the alpha version of the Kubernetes containerd integration. With another 6 months of development, the integration with containerd is now generally available! You can now use…
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I recently had solar panels and a battery storage system from GivEnergy installed at my house. A major selling point for me was that they have a local network API which can be used to monitor and…
RabbitMQ Crash Course for 2025
📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own single-user...
In November of last year, AWS announced the first ARM-based AWS instance type ( AWS Designed Processor: Graviton ). For me this was a very big deal because I’ve been talking about ARM based servers for more than a decade, believing that massive client volumes fund the R&D stream that feeds most server-side innovation…
We moved our warehouse product off DuckDB and DuckLake onto our own flavor of Trino and a new open table format, HogLake. Here's what broke at scale and why.
Operational simplicity in aodrqew, balancing stability and agility to enhance reliability, reduce complexity, and focus on impactful innovation.
