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We've released Terraform 0.9. Terraform is a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching any infrastructure. Since our last major Terraform release, we had 8 minor releases to add and improve hundreds of resources and dozens of providers and the number of community contributors has increased…
In April of 2016 Etsy launched Pattern, a new product that gives Etsy sellers the ability to create their own hosted e-commerce...
Recently I wrote about moving the platform behind The New York Times Crossword to the Google Cloud Platform and mentioned we were able to…
On Friday, we announced DNS analytics for all Cloudflare customers. Because of our scale –– by the time you’ve finished reading this, Cloudflare DNS will have handled millions of DNS queries –– we had to be creative in our implementation.
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
Lessons learned in scaling out the PostgreSQL database in the cloud using Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that is also available as a fully-managed database as a service. From operational pain points like HA to disaster recovery to backups to monitoring and logging and alerts.
On September 14, 2016 we announced Envoy, our L7 proxy and communication bus. In a nutshell, Envoy is a “service mesh” substrate that…
A multi-cloud strategy can help organizations leverage strengths of different cloud providers and spread critical workloads. For example, maybe you have an existing application on AWS but want to use Google’s powerful APIs for Vision , Cloud Video Intelligence and Data Loss Prevention , or its big data and machine…
The first GCP region in India is now open for you to build applications and store your data.
We take a look at the performance of our 86,529 hard drives and break down the failure rates by manufacturer and model size.
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Serverless architecture is a cloud-based development model in which the cloud provider manages the servers and the developer only needs to focus on the code.
Monitor agents, cron jobs, websites, APIs, and everything in between. Jobs, uptime checks, heartbeats, status pages and analytics in one tool.
Any containerized application typically consists of multiple containers. There are containers for the application itself, a database, possibly a web server, and so on. During development, it’s normal to build and test this multi-container application on a single host. This approach works fine during early dev and test…
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Jeff McCormick, a developer at Crunchy Data, showing how to build a PostgreSQL cluster using the new Kubernetes StatefulSet feature. In an earlier post, I described how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm, a Kubernetes package manager. The following example provides the…
We’re excited to announce the beta release of managed SSL certificates at no charge for applications built on Google App Engine . This service automatically encrypts server-to-client communication — an essential part of safeguarding sensitive information over the web. Manually managing SSL certificates to ensure a…
An MIT researcher recently broke the record for the largest ever Compute Engine cluster, with 220,000 cores on Preemptible VMs , the largest known high-performance computing cluster to ever run in the public cloud.
