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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 185 posts.
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Reliability via Automated Renewal Information
The Let’s Encrypt team is excited to announce that ACME Renewal Information (ARI) is live in production! ARI makes it possible for our subscribers to handle certificate revocation and renewal as easily and automatically as the process of getting a certificate in the first place. With ARI, Let’s Encrypt can signal to…
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Nuvem, a subsea cable to connect Portugal, Bermuda, and the U.S.
The Nuvem submarine cable will connect Portugal, Bermuda and South Carolina, and will be Bermuda’s first transatlantic fiber optic route.
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Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
Introducing Infrastructure Manager, which integrates HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure as code workflow into the Google Cloud experience.
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Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.
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Indexing a billion pages
It’s two years since we launched Mwmbl, the open source, non-profit search engine, on Boxing Day 2021. A good time to take stock of where we are and where we’re going. We’ve indexed over 100 million pages Thanks to our volunteers, who crawl the web using the Firefox extension and command line script, we’re crawling up…
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Self-Hosting (Almost) All the Way Down [video]
I will demonstrate FPGA-based 64-bit RISC-V computer, capable of booting and running the riscv64 port of Fedora. Using Free/Libre packages available as part of the Fedora repositories, this machine is capable of recompiling not only its own software (e.g., kernel, glibc, gcc), but also its own gateware (i.e., FPGA…
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Why did Nix adopt Flakes?
Learn how Nix Flakes improve the composability and reproducibility of builds in Nix and Devbox.
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Cookbook: Finetuning Llama 2 in your own cloud environment, privately
An operational guide on finetuning Llama 2, ready for commercial use.
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Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Clouds for IT infrastructure are so popular lately that moving into the cloud has become a trend. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) …
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An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa
On Sunday, August 6, an undersea landslide in one of the world’s longest submarine canyons knocked out two of the most important submarine cables serving the African internet. The loss of these cables knocked out international internet bandwidth along the west coast of Africa. In this blog post, we review some history…
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Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore
For years, macOS upgrades have broken Nix. We've updated the Determinate Nix Installer to ensure that this no longer happens, eliminating yet another annoyance for macOS users.
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Modern Transactional Stack
Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying to get home from the airport, and…
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It's not always DNS, unless it is
Our journey investigating a months-long issue and what we learned from it
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Virtualizing development environments in 2023
The limits of two modern virtualization methods: containers and virtual machines.
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Kubernetes and Kernel Panics
How Netflix’s Container Platform Connects Linux Kernel Panics to Pods
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A PyTorch Approach to ML Infrastructure
Distribute and run AI workloads on Kubernetes magically in Python, like PyTorch for ML infra. - run-house/kubetorch
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Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
Combining Nix stores makes development environments more portable. How a layered store can bring Nix Flakes to millions of Replit users.
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A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
Treezor migrated a legacy PHP application from servers to serverless on AWS Lambda. They gained increased scalability, faster response times and fewer production incidents.
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Google Cloud Workstations managed development environment is now GA
Cloud Workstations, now GA, enables faster developer onboarding and increased productivity with an enhanced security posture.
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Google Cloud TPU Multislice Training
We used Multislice Training to run the world’s largest LLM distributed training job on a compute cluster of 50,944 Cloud TPU v5e chips.
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Working with Docker containers with the dexec bash script
I wrote a simple dexec script to make running commands through Docker containers less clunky. I'll show you what dexec is and how to use it!
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The State of Serverless GPUs
Comprehensive guide to understand the Serverless GPU Inference landscape.
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Supply Chain Attack Using PyPI Packages “Colorslib”, “Httpslib”, and “Libhttps”
The FortiGuard Labs team discovered an attack embedded in three PyPI packages called ‘colorslib’, ‘httpslib’, and “libhttps”. Read our blog to learn more.…
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The next generation of serverless
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories
Trickest workflow parses 15TB of GitHub Archive logs and extracts public details for every user and repository back to 2015.