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RabbitMQ 3.9 introduces a new type of data structure: streams. Streams unlock a set of use cases that could have been tedious to implement with "traditional" queues. Let's discover in this post how streams expand the capabilities of RabbitMQ.
This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what clusters are all about. In this post we will take a peek under the hood of our hosting infrastructure and walk through how we made hosting work in a multi-cluster world. Hosting overview If you didn't…
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
Terraform 0.15 delivers a wide set of stable interfaces that practitioners, partners, and organizations can rely on.
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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.
eBPF Service Mesh - How we can build an eBPF-based service mesh in the kernel to replace the complex sidecar model
Updated on August 2, 2021: Windows 365 is now generally available to businesses of all sizes. Learn more about Windows 365 and experience it today. As some regions begin to make their way out of the challenges and disruption of the past 18 months, we’re seeing a new world of work emerge.
The new on-call management tool is available in beta preview for Grafana Cloud users with both free and paid plans.
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
Update (August 23, 2023) – The retirement announced in this blog post is now complete. There are no more EC2 instances running with EC2-Classic networking. Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance…
Nitrokey explains why NextBox runs Debian instead of Ubuntu Core. An in-depth look at the technical and philosophical reasons behind the OS choice for the NextBox platform.
Container security is critical as companies use them more often for AI workloads and cloud workloads. Learn about 17 container security best practices here.
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On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of…
Exploring the tradeoffs of building container images at scale
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
Update 4/29/2021 3PM PT : Through our investigation, we now have additional information concerning what environment variables may have been obtained without authorization and how they may have been used. Affected users can view details within the Codecov application. Additionally, we have posted our most up-to-date…
On December 10, 2021, Apache released a fix for CVE-2021-44228, a critical RCE vulnerability affecting Log4j that is being exploited in the wild.
In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, , for using a technique called Sort Merge Bucket (SMB) join. We’ll present the design and implementation of SMB and how we incorporated it into our data pipelines.
Launching Supabase Storage and how you can use it in your apps
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol …
GitHub Actions now supports ephemeral (i.e. single job) self-hosted runners and a new workflow_job webhook to make autoscaling your runners easier. After a job is run, ephemeral runners are automatically…
Discover essential Docker Security Best Practices for DevOps engineers and security professionals. Cheat sheet included for quick implementation!
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Today Vantage announces the launch of automated cost savings recommendations for all users with connected AWS accounts. Vantage will now automatically profile AWS account...
Earlier this week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked just below 2 Tbps — the largest we’ve seen to date.
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with the threat actor tracked as NOBELIUM, attempting to gain access to downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT services organizations.
