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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Looking at cloud storage providers? B2 is 3x-30x cheaper than all of the other cloud storage providers including, Amazon S3, Azure, and Google.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 2,538 posts.
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Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Ceph is an open source distributed storage system designed to evolve with data.
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IPFS 0.5
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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Rolling your own servers with Kubernetes
This is part one of a three-part series on considerations that companies will want to address if they decide to build their own cloud environment.
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Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Looking for a cloud hosted Maven repository when working with Google Cloud? Sign up for a free 14-day trial of Deps Private Maven Repositories. Deps is a private, hosted, Maven repository. While building it I had a critical decision to make - Where to host it? I evaluated many different hosting services but decided on…
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We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Firecracker is not the best choice for all kinds of workloads.
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Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution
Deuxfleurs is a non-profit based in France that aims to defend and promote individual freedom and rights on the Internet. In their quest to build a d…
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Hashicorp Vault v1.0
Vault 1.0 is focused on renovating Vault's infrastructure to support high performance, scalable workloads.
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Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack
Detectify analyzed 50,000 unique Nginx configuration files on GitHub and reported some common misconfigurations.
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Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019
Let’s Encrypt had a great year in 2018. We’re now serving more than 150 million websites while maintaining a stellar security and compliance track record. Most importantly though, the Web went from 67% encrypted page loads to 77% in 2018, according to statistics from Mozilla. This is an incredible rate of change! We’d…
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Rethinking serverless with FLAME
Imagine if you could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a temporary copy of your app
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We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
In August 2022, Dan Walsh (one of the authors of this article) moved out of his role as container runtimes architect at Red Hat to architect for the Red Hat ...
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Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends
I like to think of infrastructure as the part of a system that everyone needs and no one likes to work on! It is often undifferentiated & messy, tedious to work on, difficult to manage, critical to the success of whatever relies on it, and generally taken for granted (as long as it works as […]
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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AWS services to avoid
Get ready for some personal and definitely opinionated opinions!
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Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
This post courtesy of Paul Maddox, Specialist Solutions Architect (Developer Technologies). Today, we’re excited to announce Go as a supported language for AWS Lambda. As someone who’s done their fair share of Go development (recent projects include AWS SAM Local and GoFormation), this is a release I’ve been looking…
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Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
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Using Immutable Caching to Speed Up the Web
The benefits of immutable caching mean that when a page is refreshed, which is an extremely common social media scenario, elements that were previously marked immutable with an HTTP response ...
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The Bun Shell
The Bun Shell is a cross-platform shell that allows you to run shell scripts in JavaScript & TypeScript
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Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a way to increase redundancy and limit the blast radius of site failures. In pursuit of these goals, we have migrated the most critical user-facing services at Slack from a monolithic to a cell-based…
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Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
Cloudflare announced their exciting new object storage product, Cloudflare R2. Will they take market share?
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Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
BGP route leak interrupts access to Google’s services throughout the world. Traffic rerouted via Russia and China and slammed into the great firewall.