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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 354 posts.

Infrastructure & DevOps
2020
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Kubernetes 1.18

We're pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.18, our first release of 2020! Kubernetes 1.18 consists of 38 enhancements: 15 enhancements are moving to stable, 11 enhancements in beta, and 12 enhancements in alpha. Kubernetes 1.18 is a "fit and finish" release. Significant work has gone into improving beta…

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Cloud Traffic

I recently watched Build an enterprise-grade service mesh with Traffic Director , featuring Stewart Reichling and Kelsey Hightower of GCP, and of course Google Cloud’s Traffic Director . Coming at this with a brain steeped in 5½ years of AWS technology and culture was surprising in ways that seem worth sharing.

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Creating a Home IPv6 Network

One of the recent experiences of Linux Plumbers Conference convinced me that if you want to be part of a true open source WebRTC based peer to peer audio/video interaction, you need an internet address that’s not behind a NAT. In reality, the protocol still works as long as you can contact a stun server to tell you…

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Initial Impressions of WSL 2

Soon the Windows May 2020 Update (20H1) will be released upon the world. This update will contain some nice UI improvements, but most relevant to me it allows Web Developers on Windows to upgrade to WSL 2. This is a significant milestone in the #davegoeswindows saga and it’s worth posting about what it means going…

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AWS Copilot

AWS Copilot CLI will reach end-of-support on May 22, 2026. After this date, the tool will no longer receive updates, security patches, or technical support. The first official command line tool for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) was created in 2015. In December 2019, we shared the preview release of a…