Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 314 posts.
An MIT researcher recently broke the record for the largest ever Compute Engine cluster, with 220,000 cores on Preemptible VMs , the largest known high-performance computing cluster to ever run in the public cloud.
The performance of mobile phone processors has been steadily increasing, causing the performance gap between server and mobile processors to narrow with mobile processors sporting superior performance per unit energy. Fueled by the slowing of Moore’s Law, the overall performance of single-chip mobile and server…
Heap’s infrastructure runs on AWS, and we manage it using Terraform. This post is a collection of tips and gotchas we’ve picked up along the way.
Effective immediately B2 download pricing is only $.02/GB. B2 cloud storage pricing is now 1/4th the price of Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure.
AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: explaining the different virtualization types, from emulation and binary substitution, paravirtualization and Xen, PV, HVM, and PVHVM modes, and the new Nitro hypervisor
When a radically different technology comes along it usually takes time before we figure out how to apply it. When we had steam engines running factories there was one engine in each factory with a giant driveshaft running through the whole factory. When the electric engine came along people started replacing the…
We are pleased to announce that we’re extending per-second billing, with a one minute minimum, to Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc, and App Engine flexible environment VMs. These changes are effective today and are applicable to all VMs, including Preemptible VMs and VMs running our premium operating…
Using CockroachDB means shifting operational thinking from disaster recovery to disaster resilience, and completely side steps the risks associated with vendor lock-in.
Recently at Bluecore I ran into a familiar situation: during brief periods of overload, all requests to a server were timing out. It was a catastrophic failure, where the server completely stopped serving. We added more capacity to prevent overload, but we also wanted to fix the server. Instead of exploding, it should…
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.9, our fourth and final release this year. Today’s release continues the evolution of an increasingly rich feature set, more robust stability, and even greater community contributions. As the fourth release of the year, it gives us an opportunity to look back at…
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL users, we heard you loud and clear, and added support for high availability (HA) and read replicas, helping you ensure your database workloads are fault tolerant.
Today we’re launching Amazon Time Sync Service, a time synchronization service delivered over Network Time Protocol (NTP) which uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each region to deliver a highly accurate reference clock. This service is provided at no additional charge and is…
Lyft is pleased to announce the initial open source release of our IPvlan-based CNI networking stack for running Kubernetes at scale in…
AWS is fell into the post-truth trap, providing false green in their status dashboard when all was not well.
