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AWS's Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 175 posts.
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Why I Built Litestream
Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity and cost by using SQLite & Litestream for your production applications.
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Docker without Docker
Our users deliver software to us as Docker containers, but we don’t use Docker to run them. We transmogrify container images into Firecracker micro-VMs. Here's how.
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Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
Introducing Cloudflare’s S3-compatible Object Storage service, with zero egress bandwidth charges and automatic migration from S3-compatible services.
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We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
During COVID we experienced rapid growth in the amount of data we ingest. This post details some of the problems this caused us and how we solved them.
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MangaDex infrastructure overview
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The S in IoT is for Security
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These feature…
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Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure. To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a P…
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More details about the October 4 outage
Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…
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Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion
With an effort to make Notion faster and more reliable for years to come — we migrated Notion’s PostgreSQL monolith into a horizontally-partitioned database fleet.
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HashiCorp IPO today
As we officially enter the public markets, we plan to continue to do what we think we do best: solving problems for our end users.
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Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 21.04 is here, with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu. […]
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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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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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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Kafka without ZooKeeper
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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Postgres scaling advice
Planning to scale PostgreSQL? Learn when a single node is enough, how to prepare for sharding, and which scaling steps to consider first.
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Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
At Channable we use Nix to build and deploy our services and to manage our development environments. This was not always the case: in the past we used a combination of ecosystem-specific tools and custom scripts to glue them together. Consolidating everything with Nix has helped us standardize development and…
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Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server
TL;DR I set out to build the smallest container image that I could that was still able to do something useful. By taking advantage of multistage builds, the scratch base image, and a tiny assembly-based HTTP server, I was able to get it down to 6.32kB!
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SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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An Update on Our Outage
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
Building on top of OpenTelemetry empowers us to provide integrated and opinionated observability solutions for our application engineers.