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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 228 posts.

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Several AWS teams are focused on simplifying and accelerating the process of moving on-premises data to the cloud. We started out with the very basic PUT operation and multipart upload in the early days. Along the way we gave you the ability to send us a disk, and made that process even easier by launching […]

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Google seeks new disks for data centers

Today, during my keynote at the 2016 USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2016 ), I’ll be talking about our goal to work with industry and academia to develop new lines of disks that are a better fit for data centers supporting cloud-based storage services. We're also releasing a white paper on the…

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How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN

This post is the first in a series detailing the evolution of network software at Fastly. We’re unique amongst our peers in that from inception, we’ve always viewed networking as an integral part of our product rather than a cost center. We rarely share what we do with the wider networking community however, in part…