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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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Kubernetes Exposed: One YAML Away from Disaster
We found two main misconfigurations in Kubernetes clusters belonging to more than 350 organizations openly accessible and largely unprotected.
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Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet
One of the best features of Podman is how well it works with systemd. Podman uses the standard fork/exec model, which is easily adaptable to the systemd syst...
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Public Beta: December 3, 2015
Let’s Encrypt will enter Public Beta on December 3, 2015. Once we’ve entered Public Beta our systems will be open to anyone who would like to request a certificate. There will no longer be a requirement to sign up and wait for an invitation. Our Limited Beta started on September 12, 2015. We’ve issued over 11,000…
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Eclipse Vert.x goes Native
Vert.x | Reactive applications on the JVM
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HAproxy in the era of Microservices
Tales of a Software Craftsman
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How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern
In April of 2016 Etsy launched Pattern, a new product that gives Etsy sellers the ability to create their own hosted e-commerce...
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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended
Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us via the ACME API. This service ended on June 4, 2025. The decision to end the service is the result of the following factors: Over the past 10 years more and more of our…
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Openwrt 18.06.2 released
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The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using
IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW If you take a look at the list of IPv4 allocated /8 blocks there's one interesting block in there: 51.0.0.0/8 ...
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Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes
[Hacker News discussion, Twitter thread]
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Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic , and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message…
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Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
Get the details on Storage Pod 6.0 and learn how to build your own data storage server.
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New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016
We take a close look at the hard drive failure rates from 68,813 hard drives that are used in the Backblaze data center.
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GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories
Now in public preview, Linux arm64 hosted runners are available for free in public repositories. Following the release of arm64 larger hosted runners in June, this offering now extends to…
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OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic
Learn how to use Apache Kafka as a buffer between OpenTelemetry Collectors for a scalable multi-collector pipeline, with YAML configuration examples.
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CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus implementation
Grafana is an open source visualization and dashboarding technology that allows you to explore your metrics, logs, and traces no matter where the data is.
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Awk driven IoT
With a Raspberry Pi or other modern single-board computers, you can make very simple toys. I started with the hello world of interactive apps: the soundboard. But even then, I was too ambitious. The soundpad Since the main target was kids. I wanted a simple, screen-less toy that would teach …
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EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available
We announced the t2.nano instances earlier this year. Like their larger siblings (t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium, and t2.large), these instances provide a baseline level of processing power, along with the ability to save up unused cycles and use them when the need arises. As I noted in my earlier post (New T2.Large…
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The GitHub Availability Report
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
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The End of the General Purpose Operating System
As interesting chat on Twitter today reminded me that not everyone is probably aware that we’re seeing a concerted attempt to dislodge the general purpose operating system from our servers.
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Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop
Learn how to create & manage and use Quadlets with Podman Desktop
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How to install Linux from a Windows installer
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Presumably for the same reason as me? I also don't know what that was.
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End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux
CoreOS was founded in 2013 with the mission to improve the security and reliability of the internet.
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Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
VMware Engine is a fully managed offering that lets enterprises run existing virtual machines on Google Cloud infrastructure.
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Testing Sync at Dropbox
Executing a full rewrite of the Dropbox sync engine was pretty daunting. (Read more about our goals and how we made the decision in our previous post here .) Doing so meant taking the engine that powers Dropbox on hundreds of millions of user’s machines and swapping it out mid-flight. To pull this off, we knew we…
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Moving the NYT Games Platform to Google Cloud With Zero Downtime
Recently I wrote about moving the platform behind The New York Times Crossword to the Google Cloud Platform and mentioned we were able to…