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Sccache, Mozilla’s distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust
If this were a diary it would have a unicorn on the cover, because unicorns are awesome.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 2,538 posts.
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video]
Want to learn how Facebook scales their load balancing infrastructure to support more than 1.3 billion users? We will be revealing the technologies and methods we use to global route and balance Facebook's traffic. The Traffic team at Facebook has built several systems for managing and balancing our site traffic…
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Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your Git repos to GCP
Adding the Cloud Run button to your github source code repositories lets anyone deploy their application to Google Cloud.
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We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with so_reuseport to scale pooling across every core — with benchmarks showin
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NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
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Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available
We announced Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and invited customers to take a look at a preview during re:Invent 2017. Today I am pleased to be able to let you know that EKS is available for use in production form. It has been certified as Kubernetes conformant, and is ready to run your existing […]
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Introducing Preemptible GPUs
In May 2015, Google Cloud introduced Preemptible VM instances to dramatically change how you think about (and pay for) computational resources for high-throughput batch computing, machine learning, scientific and technical workloads. Then last year, we introduced lower pricing for Local SSDs attached to Preemptible…
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Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Good Retry, Bad Retry
Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.
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1000 nodes and beyond: updates to Kubernetes performance and scalability
Editor's note: this is the first in a series of in-depth posts on what's new in Kubernetes 1.2 We're proud to announce that with the release of 1.2, Kubernetes now supports 1000-node clusters, with a reduction of 80% in 99th percentile tail latency for most API operations. This means in just six months, we've…
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Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
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A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
Troubleshooting in Kubernetes can be a daunting task. In this article you will learn how to diagnose issues in Pods, Services and Ingress.
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Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale
Grafana Labs is helping enable continuous profiling at cloud native scale for the open source community and enterprises, giving developers a better understanding of resource usage of their code.
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Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
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Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and…
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Building and scaling Notion's data lake
How Notion build and grew our data lake to keep up with rapid growth
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Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure
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Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure
Old observability metrics like uptime and MTTR aren't enough anymore. Teams must connect technical signals to business outcomes, like savings and speed.
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Hardening unused (sub)domains
Proper implementation of email hardening techniques can be beneficial even to (sub)domains that are not intended to be used with email.
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Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks
There have been several incidents recently where popular packages were successfully attacked. To reduce the risk of installing a compromised version, we are introducing a new setting that delays the installation of newly released dependencies. In most cases, such attacks are discovered quickly...
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.
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Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads
Hello Podman community! Today is a special day for all of us – we’ve officially hit 500,000 downloads of Podman Desktop! We want to say a big thanks to each and every one of you. …