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

2016
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Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes

Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 At the lowest layers of a Kubernetes node is the software that, among other things, starts and stops containers. We call this the “Container Runtime”. The most widely known container runtime is Docker, but it is not alone…

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Spotify's Kafka-Based Event Delivery System

Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a small piece of information, an event, is sent to our servers. Event delivery, the process of making sure that all events gets transported safely from clients all over the world to our central processing…

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Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)

Innovation never takes a break, and neither do I. From the steaming hot beaches of Cabo San Lucas I would like to tell you about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or Amazon EC2, now open for limited beta testing, with more beta slots to open soon. Amazon EC2 gives you access to a virtual computing […]

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Consul 0.7

We are excited to release Consul 0.7, a major update with many new features and improvements. This release focused on making it easier to operate Consul clusters, and built key foundations for continued operational improvements in future releases. Consul is a modern datacenter runtime that provides service discovery…

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Rktnetes brings rkt container engine to Kubernetes

Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.3 As part of Kubernetes 1.3, we’re happy to report that our work to bring interchangeable container engines to Kubernetes is bearing early fruit. What we affectionately call “rktnetes” is included in the version 1.3…

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Hardening Compiler Flags for NixOS

In the past year some Mayflower colleagues have started using and contributing to NixOS, a purely functional GNU/Linux distribution that combines package and configuration management. We decided that we would give it a try in production but stumbled upon some issues that had to be resolved first. We have added new…

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Lambda@Edge – Preview

Just last week, a comment that I made on Hacker News resulted in an interesting email from an AWS customer! He told me that he runs a single page app that is hosted on S3 (read about this in Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3) and served up at low latency through Amazon CloudFront. […]