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Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive
You can upgrade the storage in your Raspberry Pi 4 with an NVMe drive using USB3 to get more reliable storage and faster I/O than an SD…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 354 posts.
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Beginners guide to gateways and proxies
Have you heard of gateways, proxies, load balancer, API gateways? This article explains what gateways are, what is their purpose and how they work with pract...
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Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
Globally, more than 3.5 billion people are still not connected to the internet. With average data usage per person growing 20 to 30 percent annually, legacy bandwidth-limited technologies have been…
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Speeding up a Git monorepo
We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance and began consolidating our repositories that hosted our backend code. But as this monorepo grew, we experienced Git performance issues that grew linearly with the number of files we added. Inconveniently, this problem was the most severe on…
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Traefik, Now With Native Go Plugins
Traefik 2.3, the latest version of the most popular open source cloud native proxy, is now available. With plugins, ECS provider, and more!
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Ansible Alternatives in Python
My VPS will soon expire, so I've decided to try to automate its deployment. After spending evening by studying Ansible alternatives, I've decided to use pyinfra, and I am quite happy with it.
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Cloud AI Platform Pipelines
AI Platform Pipelines provides enterprise-ready infrastructure for deploying and running structured ML workflows, and pipeline tools for building, debugging, and sharing pipelines and components.
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We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
Streaming pipelines on AWS can be expensive. Here’s how we cut AWS costs 67% without reserved instances or savings plans
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Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler
One of the challenges of application engineering within an established company like Dropbox is to break out of the cycle of incremental improvements and look at a problem fresh. Our colleagues who do user research help by regularly reminding us of the customer’s perspective, but so can our friends and family when they…
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IPv6 WireGuard Peering
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
Serverless containers and functions are widely used for deploying and managing software in the cloud. Their popularity is due to reduced cost of operations, improved utilization of hardware, and faster scaling than traditional deployment methods. The economics and scale of serverless applications…
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The future of electricity is local
I frequently read about proposals for new solar power developments where the resulting power is moved great distances to less sunny places, such as northern Europe from the Sahara, the US North Eas…
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Anatomy of My Kubernetes Cluster
1 I usually rely on Minikube , though other solutions exist, like Kind , that can actually emulate multiple nodes. Multi-node support may eventually come for Minikube. A year ago, I decided I would build my own Kubernetes cluster. As a software engineer, I either use a local single-node Kubernetes cluster 1 , or a…
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AWS EC2 General Price Cut
It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]
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Self-Hosted Homelab Website
This website, along with a stack of other projects—including virtualization, remote observability, VPNs, NAS, and more—runs from my wall-mounted home lab.
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Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp
Discover how BeyondCorp assists in securely restricting access to internal websites, ensuring organizational data remains protected.
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The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
Get started with AWS Lambda with Complete Handbook For Beginners. Create your first simple AWS Lambda function.
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Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, Swift Service Lifecycle. Service Lifecycle is a Swift package designed to help server applications, also known as services, manage their startup and shutdown sequences.
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Facebook reveals 'SuperCell' tower to increase connectivity in rural areas
As part of our efforts to help expand connectivity around the world, Facebook Connectivity has been prototyping SuperCell, a wide-area coverage solution for increasing mobile connectivity in rural …
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The rise of embarrassingly parallel serverless compute
How distributed serverless compute changes the game on whats possible
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Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective
By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park