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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 1,839 posts.
There’s no shortage of posts like “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems, or Do I Really Need Kubernetes?, which tend to argue that unless you’re orchestrating 1000 containers, you’re good without Kubernetes. Also, I thought this tweet was hilarious: So… Hi, I’m the guy using Kubernetes for my blog and small…
A guide to a secure and streamlined installation of OpenBSD 6.4 on a laptop.
Joe Beda had a great twitter thread this morning about the complexity of Kubernetes. You can read it in full , and I suggest you do, but I wanted to quote a few things I found to be particularly thought provoking:
When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.
If you happen to find yourself in a sysadmin position, or a position where you just so happen to maintain someone’s infrastructure , chances are that at some point in time the topic “we need a cache” comes up.
Recently Ben Hoyt published a blog post claiming that contrary to popular belief, I/O is not the bottleneck in typical programming interview problems such as counting word frequencies from a stream. Sequential read speed has come a long way, while CPU speed has stagnated.
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.
I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution
Over the last few months, Baker and I have been digging in deep on Heat Pumps . I'm putting my explorations here on pause but wanted to write up everything we've learned over the last few months.
In which I tell you that you're overcomplicating things and you should throw everything behind a single git repository.
It is no secret that I am not a fan of logs; I’ve baited (rapala in work lingo. Rapala is a Finnish brand of fishing lure, and used to mean baiting in this context) discussion in our work chat with things like: If you’re writing log statements, you’re doing it wrong. This is a pretty incendiary statement, and while…
Ahead of its June 2021 algorithm update, Google made a significant announcement as part of its shift to emphasize overall page experience…
Docker's report that a downloaded image is "verified" is based solely on the presence of a signed manifest, and Docker never verifies the image checksum from the manifest.
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Airports are a critical piece of modern infrastructure.
Docker Inc's journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here's what their strategic shifts tell us about the company's search for identity.
Why I joined my company's CI team to fix Jenkins, the two options we weighed, and what I learned about developer-productivity work.
Experiences with the Matrix protocol, Matrix Synapse server, bridges, and Element mobile apps.
In the Terminator movies, good relationships beat technological superiority. Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor outwit the advanced T-800 who in turn helps Sarah and John beat the ultra-advanced T-1000. OpenAI’s GPT-4 is currently the most advanced publicly available language model. There are also analyses showing it’s…
The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.
Folks have been making noises for a while that Amazon is anti-competitive in a variety of ways. I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment, but there’s one particular aspect of how AWS advantages its own offerings that I don’t see folks talking about–and strikes me as particularly egregious.
If we were to start over from first principles, what would I do differently than k8s?
In 2022, data engineers manage forests, not trees
Overview of basic analytics during that one time my blog post got traction on HackerNews, and the steps I took to prepare for just this occasion.
As a software developer, I know first-hand how difficult it is to build quality products quickly and cheaply. It’s an art form that we sometimes get right, and other times devolves into something akin to the Obama era healthcare government site. Our level of control over the resulting product varies, and blame for…
I'm squarely in the trough of disillusionment with S3.
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 1.0 release of Kubernetes, let's take stock of the successes and failures of the project in the wild. Also what would be on a wish list for a Kubernetes 2.0 release.
