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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 402 posts.
CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
Learn how teams using GitLab SaaS can build, test, and deploy on CircleCI.
Solving Common Problems with Kubernetes
A storytelling guide to starting k8s
Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III – the nuclear navy
This week we conclude our look at nuclear power construction costs. So far we’ve looked solely at conventional nuclear power stations that supply electricity to the grid for residential and commercial use. But civilian power stations aren’t the only sort of nuclear reactor that the US builds. The US Navy has been…
Quick Look at Rosetta on Linux
Yesterday, Apple did release RosettaLinux as part of the macOS Ventura preview. Let’s take a first quick look…
Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)
A concrete use-case of Firecracker with code snippets
Running Containers on AWS Lambda
Learn how to run containers on AWS Lambda and leverage the scalability and cost-saving benefits of serverless computing. This article explores the ...
How we secure Monzo's banking platform
Our Security Infrastructure team introduces the principles we follow to build security in Monzo’s fast-moving engineering environment and how they work with other engineering teams to keep our customers and platform safe.
Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown
A head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel's network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK.
Experiment: The costs of slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine
Today I’m excited to announce that we deployed our next-generation storage engine that’s built on InfluxDB IOx in our InfluxDB Cloud platform. #influxdb
Using Ansible and Nomad for a homelab (part 1)
How I migrated my Chef homelab to Ansible+Nomad
Use a custom domain to send emails with Gmail using Cloudflare email routing
Edit: Updated with notes about revealing your main gmail address and deliverability, after this HN discussion
HAProxy 2.7
HAProxy 2.7 adds features such as Traffic Shaping, Stick Tables Sharding, Scalability Improvements, and Layer 7 HTTP Retry Updates.
DIY out-of-band management: remote power button
I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to make it possible to push a PC’s power button remotely via MQTT by wiring up an ESP32 microcontroller, a MOSFET, a resistor, and a few jumper wires. While a commercial solution like IPMI offers many more features like remote serial, or remote image mounting, this DIY…
Falling for Kubernetes
I default to bare metal where I can. But recently I had to adopt a more complicated server management solution. And after a couple months of building for kubernetes, I must admit I'm falling for it more every day.
The Unbundling of Airflow
Star us on GitHub In each subdomain of software, we have seen the same story over and over again. Products start small, in time, add adjacent verticals and functionality to their offerings and end up becoming a platform. Once these platforms become big enough, people start to figure out how
Phases of Netflix’s real-time data infrastructure
The blog post will share the four phases of Real-time Data Infrastructure’s iterative journey in Netflix (2015-2021). For each phase, we will go over the evolving business motivations, the team’s unique challenges, the strategy bets, and the use case patterns we discovered along the way.
Is CBL-Mariner going to become Microsoft Linux?
Microsoft is increasingly standardizing on its in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution. Is this Microsoft Linux?
Don't send to Gmail over IPv6
Yes, some people do it, and yes, for some people, it works fine. But..... If you're standing up a new server and it has an IPv6 IP address, ...
Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
Vercel Build Output API: Infrastructure-as-Filesystem
The Build Output API enables any framework, including your own custom-built solution, to take advantage of Vercel’s infrastructure building blocks.
GCP, AWS, and Azure ARM-based server performance comparison
Compare ARM cloud server network performance using Apache APISIX as an API Gateway benchmark workload across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub.
I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free
Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do.
Leaving the Cloud
Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.
A robots.txt Problem
To prevent a part of our web application from being scanned by search engines and other web crawlers, we add a robots.txt like User-agen...