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Ice cold archive storage
Get the latest cloud storage news here from Google Cloud, with a new archive storage class and Persistent Disk updates.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 289 posts.
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Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace
How do you debug an application, library or an entire system with multiple processes? One answer: tracing. An introduction into bpftrace, and an overview of the Linux tracing ecosystem (DTrace, eBPF, uprobes, etc).
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Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service
Managing databases at scale is never easy. One of the options to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of structured data, including key-value and tabular formats, is Apache Cassandra. With Cassandra, you can use the expressive Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to build applications quickly. However, managing large…
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Using Makefile(s) for Go
Using Makefile(s) for Go — Danish Prakash
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The Day “/Proc” Died
Solaris'd... This morning I got an email from our group manager asking about a UNIX server...
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Monzo: How our security team handle secrets
We recently designed a new system to manage secret information safely – from the keys that we use to sign your Mastercard transactions, to credentials for external services.
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BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages
Learn what 768K day is and what it may mean for businesses that rely on the Internet to operate.
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OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes half an hour (2018)
So, your machine now needs minutes to boot before you can ssh in where it used to be seconds before the Debian Buster update?
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We built network isolation for 1500 services
We've been working on isolating the 1,500 services that power Monzo. The sheer size and complexity of our platform made this difficult. But by protecting us against compromised services, it makes Monzo more secure.
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Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes
🇬🇧 Article in English We always need to customize our deployment with Kubernetes and, I don’t know why but the main tool around for now is HELM which throws away all the logic we learn on docker and Kubernetes. Here I will introduce to you an alternative called Kustomize ❤️
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Apply Unix Principles to Write Testable Microservices
Microservice architecture paradigm fits well within the Unix’s first principle/philosophy: “Make one program do one thing well”. We l...
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Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa
Google’s private Equiano subsea cable will improve connectivity, resilience and latency for the people who live and work in Africa.
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First modern coreboot server platform
With our expertise we create security solutions which are robust and easy to use, leveraging leading open source technology.
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Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose EC2 Instances
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors…
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New AWS UDP Load Balancing for Network Load Balancer
The Network Load Balancer is designed to handle tens of millions of requests per second while maintaining high throughput at ultra low latency, with no effort on your part (read my post, New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second to learn more). In response to customer requests…
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Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example
[Discuss this article and read other’s comments on the subject on this thread on Hacker News.] The three fundamental building blocks of computers, CPU, I/O and RAM can come under pressure due to co…
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How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
the secret is in the architecture
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Fastly launches its new compute environment – supports Rust
Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing.
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Building an LTE Access Point with OpenWRT Rooter
My LTE internet connection (70 Mbit downstream, 15 MBit upstream) came with a combined Huawei B315s LTE modem/access point. As I was using it for the last two to three years a couple of problems did arise: the internet connection was often shaky, oftentimes the uplink connection got lost and I had to power-cycle the…
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
This review looks at the Q1 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 104,325 data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
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Running VSCode in Docker
A portable development environment, from editor to dependencies.
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Facebook announces next-generation Open Rack frame
As a founding member of the Open Compute Project (OCP) community, Facebook embraces a collaborative approach to solving industry-wide problems. One of the more pressing problems facing the industry…
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AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
AWS customers are always asking for more features, more bandwidth, more compute power, and more memory, while also asking for lower latency and lower prices. We do our best to meet these competing demands: we launch new EC2 instance types, EBS volume types, and S3 storage classes at a rapid pace, and we also reduce […]
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Timeline of Slack’s Tech Stack Evolution
Discover and share the technology stacks used by top companies. Compare tools, read reviews, and make informed decisions about your tech stack.