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Why you should not use Google Cloud
FINAL UPDATE (25-March-2022): Because of this article, we often keep getting asked if we still use GCP and if we would recommend it to…
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 87 posts.
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DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
A couple of months ago I did a performance comparison between some of the top free DNS Resolvers available. It was just after Quad9 had…
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Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
Hi I'm Caleb Doxsey and welcome to my website. I'm a software developer. If you'd like to contact me, you can email me here: [email protected] .
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How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)
A guide to self-hosting your email on FreeBSD using Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, and LDAP.
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My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
In this blog post, I want to discuss one of my recent attempts to create asimple one-liner Linux Dropbox client using only free and open-sourcecomponents, in...
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Docker is a dangerous gamble
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In Pursuit of Production Minimalism
Practicing minimalism with the lofty goal of total ephemeralization to build coherent, stable, and operable stacks.
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How modern Linux systems boot
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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There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc
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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Dtrace for Linux
Not explicitly mentioned in that talk, but certainly the most exciting thing, is that Oracle is doing a proper linux kernel port:
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Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With
Let's talk about when it might be a good or bad idea to start using microservices. SPOILER ALERT: it's not the same for every project.
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Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Apps
When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone executables (e.g. C/C++, COBOL), or else ran in an interpreter (e.g. Perl, Tcl). For many programmers, Java’s need for both a bytecode compiler and a runtime interpreter was a shift in thought. The compilation model…
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The Free Stack – Running Your Application for Free on AWS
We live in interesting times. The cloud offerings from Amazon, Google and Microsoft have led to a situation where world-class infrastructure is available to startups and solopreneurs for very cheap, and most of the times, they can even get started for free.
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Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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You might not need Kubernetes
Why use something bloated when you could use something minimal.
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Mail Loop From Hell (2012)
One of those awesome 90ies computer stories...
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RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images
To date, we've shaved the Bionic (18.04 LTS) minimal images down by over 53%, since Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and trimmed nearly 100 packages and...
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Serverless: Cold Start War
Comparison of cold start statistics for FaaS across AWS, Azure and GCP
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Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.
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How and why I run my own DNS servers
Despite my woeful knowledge of networking, I run my own DNS servers on my own websites run from home.