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What is a 'unikernel'?
Learn what unikernels are, how they remove OS bloat between hardware and applications, and why they're gaining traction in cloud and microservices.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 69 posts.
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The day I was DoSed by Google
I launched my startup this week. On a very modest scale, no debauched parties or penthouse offices on scads of VC money, just me and ...
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A domain move disaster
Changing my valuable domain name was a cock-up of epic proportions.
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How Doomed is NetApp?
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 13, 2015 | Cloud computing & storage , Enterprise , Management , NAS, IP, iSCSI , Object storage | 40 comments
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A Quick Introduction to LXD
With the recent release of Ubuntu 15.04, aka “Vivid Vervet”, the Ubuntu community has also unveiled an early release of LXD (pronounced “lex-dee”), a new project aimed at revitalizing the use of LXC and LXC-based containers in the face of application container efforts such as Docker and rkt. In this post, I’ll provide…
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Go kit: Go in the modern enterprise
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.
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Why we are leaving Dropbox
I have been using Dropbox almost since its incubation back in 2007, ultimately ending up using 320+ GB for business and 375+ GB of personal…
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Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service
In this post I explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables.
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Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat
(This is the first of a series of technical posts I intend to write, and my goal is to help other engineers learn from the experience of…
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Cloudy with a Chance of Lock-In
There lots of products that came to market in the recent past and that will come to market in the near future that use some kind of cloud hosted component. In many cases these products rightly use some kind of off-device service in order to provide you with features that would otherwise not be possible. Sometimes…
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I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook
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96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
96 MacBook Pro’s in a single Rack space We had a need to introduce 96 MacBook Pro’s for our product testing. Our requirements included Retina displays, small form factor, low powe…
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Goodbye, OpenStack
I just removed myself from every OpenStack mailing list and meetup. I’m sure I’ll still use it, but I don’t see myself as part of that community any longer. When I was at DreamHost, I really felt like part of that community and that I could help make it better. However, in the three years since I’ve left DreamHost, I…
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Kubernetes from the ground up: the API server
This is the second post in a series on Kubernetes , the open source cluster manager. The first post was about the kubelet .
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