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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 212 posts.

2018
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Avoiding the Distributed Monolith

If you’re considering a microservices implementation, and you enjoy this post, you might also enjoy my more recent post Gasp! You Might Not Need Microservices. I recently read a post called The False Dichotomy of Monoliths and Microservices by Jimmy Bogard, which I absolutely loved. While reading through it I noticed…

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GRPC and JSON

So you’ve bought into this whole RPC thing and want to try it out, but aren’t quite sure about Protocol Buffers. Your existing code encodes your own objects, or perhaps you have code that needs a particular encoding. What to do? Fortunately, gRPC is encoding agnostic! You can still get a lot of the benefits of gRPC…

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In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy

Late last month I announced that we are working on an AWS Region in South Africa. Today I would like to let you know that we are also building an AWS Region in Italy and plan to open it up in early 2020. Milan in 2020 The upcoming Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability […]

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AMD EPYC Performance Testing with systemd

With packet.net making bare metal servers available to cloud users, Percona CTO Vadim Tkachenko enjoys the opportunity to carry out some performance benchmarks with EPYC CPU, and experiences some surprising results running Percona Server for MySQL under systemd.

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AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available

NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details…