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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 140 posts.

2024
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"Out of Band" network management is not trivial

You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…

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What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?

Update 2024-05-21: Miles Ward has an update with more details in this X thread: UniSuper’s production Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) private cloud was automatically deleted one year after it’s creation due to a misconfiguration in how it was created. When it was created, there was a bug in the creation script which…

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Powering the Mars Base

This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A grow…

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Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings

You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…

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Refix: Fast, Debuggable, Reproducible Builds

What makes it really fast is a small Rust program called refix that post-processes your build outputs (if you don't want to compile from source, here's a static Linux binary .) Both the program and this document are written for the context of C/C++ source code compiled to native binaries. But this can work with other…

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Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting

I had never been a fan of devops/server-admin work. The sheer number of headaches involved in setting up the services, configuring them, automating them, and ensuring their reliability were just annoying and time-consuming. PaaS offerings like Heroku, AWS—and later—Railway, and Render, were appealing options out of…

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Why Certificate Lifecycle Automation Matters

If you’ve perused the ActivityPub feed of certificates whose keys are known to be compromised , and clicked on the “Show More” button to see the name of the certificate issuer, you may have noticed that some issuers seem to come up again and again. This might make sense – after all, if a CA is issuing a large volume…