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DevOps is a failure
It’s probably difficult for most people to recall the first time they heard a word, but I remember hearing the word “DevOps” for the first time. I was having a
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 1,839 posts.
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Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
Using systemd to avoid having to write some risky code
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You need to be able to run your system
"Run the unit tests" doesn't count. The complexity of your system is in the interactions between the units.
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Systemd by Example (2021)
The first article in a series where I explore aspects of systemd by creating small examples with the help of containers.
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μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)
Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell scripting, and a small...
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Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS
I provide a deeper-dive on the tech stack I like to use in 2021. It is simple, easy to work with, and allows you to grow out of it when the time comes. Updated for 2021!
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Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server
Use a mobile phone as your home server. Example with oneplus 6t
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The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
Why can't we have nice digital things?
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The hater's guide to Kubernetes
Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering.
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S3 isn't getting cheaper
Clayton Christensen famously demonstrated the Innovator's Dilemma by using data from the hard drive industry in the 1980s. At every point, companies failed to make the switch from 8-inch drives, to 5-inch drives, to 3...
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Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
One of those awesome 90ies computer stories...
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Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned
A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.
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The EC2 firewall is broken
As most standards-aware network administrators know, blocking ICMP is evil. Sure, there are certain ICMP packets which should be blocked; but to quote RFC 2979 :
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37signals Leaves the Cloud
Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's cloud. We've run on bare virtual machines, we've run on Kubernetes. We've seen all the cloud has to offer, and tried…
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Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell
It is time to celebrate EC2-Classic, which defined early cloud computing, and which is finally retiring.
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SSH: Best practices
The comments around the last OpenSSH issue ( CVE 2016-0777 , you must read excellent Qualys’ analysis if you’re interested with the details), I noticed that many people were not aware of some basic features of OpenSSH. I will attempt to give a few advises, prioritized in feasibility order, and with graphical…
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K8s with 1M nodes
This is an effort to create a fully functional Kubernetes cluster with 1 million active nodes.
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Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google's products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that's not the point of this post. I found out about…
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AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
This week’s analysis on multi-cloud being a bad idea is once again pushed back by breaking news. In this case, AWS is suing a former executive, Brian
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I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
Ben Nadel explains why his team has been hard at work merging "microservices" back into the "monolith". His team is not anti-microservices. And, in fact, both the expanding and the contracting of serv
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Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can…
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ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away , and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a ve...