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Ubuntu on Windows
Update: Here's how to get started using Ubuntu on Windows See also Scott Hanselman's blog here I'm in San Francisco this week, attendin...
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 96 posts.
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I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
Update: Amazon changed Glacier pricing on 21 December 2016, about 11 months after this was originally posted. The “gotcha” pricing…
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Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
Let’s revisit Google and Amazon pricing since the AWS November 2016 Price Reduction. We’ll analyse instance costs, for various workloads and usages. All prices are given in dollars per …
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Docker in Production: A History of Failure
Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…
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Docker not ready for primetime
I love Docker . It's so freakin' useful for distributing predictable runtime environments.
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Serverless Architectures
Serverless architectures replace a managed server with a collection of third party services and FaaS
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How Google Is Challenging AWS
AWS seems to have a dominant position in enterprise computing, but Google is trying to change the rules to favor their inherent strengths.
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Upgrade your SSH keys
Upgrade to faster and more secure SSH keys. I promise a smooth transition to the use of your new keys.
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Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
This is #3 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#2): Stack Overflow: The Hardware - 2016 EditionWe’ve talked abou...
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Learn Docker by building a Microservice
Dave Kerr, partner and Head of Engineering at QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey & Company. Writing on software engineering and agentic AI.
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What I found wrong in Docker 1.12
The Sad State of Docker
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Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book
The book starts with a story about a time Margaret Hamilton brought her young daughter with her to NASA, back in the days of the Apollo program. During a simulation mission, her daughter caused the mission to crash by pressing some keys that caused a prelaunch program to run during the simulated mission. Hamilton…
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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi
I'm increasingly of the view that both my time and my sanity are worth more and more as the years progress. Particularly in my independent life, it really can be that black and white - if I can't work, it costs me money. Plus, I want to be happy
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Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition
This is #1 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture. Welcome.Previous post (#0): Stack Overflow: A Technical DeconstructionNext post...
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Docker for Beginners
A hands-on Docker tutorial covering containers, Dockerfiles, Compose, multi-container apps, and deployment to AWS.
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Docker for Mac Beta Review
I finally got access to the Docker For Mac beta. My initial impressions are extremely positive. With Docker packaged so well for end users…
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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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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...
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Five Months of Kubernetes
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Parsing 10TB of Metadata, 26M Domain Names and 1.4M SSL Certs for $10 on AWS
Last May I was working on hobby project similar to this: https://github.com/zakjan/cert-chain-resolver/. As I found the cert-chain-resolver project a couple of days later I did nothing with the results, but I got some…
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So You Wanna Go On-Prem
If you run a successful SaaS platform, at some point someone is going to come to you with the question: can I run it myself? If you’re considering offering a private version of your SaaS, this post might be for you.
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EC2's most dangerous feature
A review for readers unfamiliar with this feature: Amazon IAM ( Identity and Access Management ) is a service which allows for the creation of access credentials which are limited in scope; for example, you can have keys which can read objects from Amazon S3 but cannot write any objects. IAM Roles for EC2 are a…
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How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
Two weeks ago, Spotify announced it was migrating from its own datacentres to Google Cloud Platform.