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AWS Lambda Web Functions
AWS Lambda Web Functions is a serverless compute primitive that runs your HTTP framework natively, delivering fast, consistent responses through multi-concurrent execution and automated global distribution.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 138 posts.
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Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Anthropic commits to covering consumer electricity price increases caused by its data centers, including grid upgrades and new power generation.
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NixOS 26.05
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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Massively Parallel Postgres Backups
PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay.
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Why we built our own background agent
The craft of engineering is rapidly changing. We built our own coding agent to accelerate faster. Inspect is now open to teams outside Ramp through early access.
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How much of my observability data is waste?
After a decade in observability, one question kept coming back: how much of your data is waste?
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How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms
What if retries could know when they’re helping, and when they’re making things worse? Uber Engineering built error ownership to prevent and contain retry storms.
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The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview
Learn how the Hetzner Cloud network stack has evolved and what role Open vSwitch, Private Networks, and Cloud Firewalls play.
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Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve…
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Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?
An open letter urging Heroku to clarify its roadmap, define “sustaining engineering,” and communicate honest business intent to developers.
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A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)
Aperture is an AI gateway that doesn't get in the way of developers, and works with most AI tools.
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Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming
Google has acquired Crusoe’s southeast Wyoming data center site after Crusoe completed site selection, approvals, and power strategy for the campus.
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I hate packaging my software for Linux
Nineteen distribution channels later: what it actually costs to give a terminal editor away for free on Linux, and why the next step is a static musl binary that updates itself.
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CVE-2026-98432: 9.8 CVE affecting all Ubuntu versions
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.