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The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce
AWS EC2 Secret sauce. How AWS provisions Windows EC2 in the cloud. Instance Pool.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 289 posts.
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The Fargate Illusion
I’ve been building a Kubernetes based platform at $work now for almost a year, and I’ve become a bit of a Kubernetes apologist. It’s true, I think the technology is
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Open-sourcing Clusterman, a cluster autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos
Remember Clusterman? Now It's Open-Source, and Supports Kubernetes Too! David R. Morrison, Compute Infra Tech Lead Nov 11, 2019 Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post showing off some...
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Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker
Here are some tips and tricks I've learned for developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker (2019 edition).
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Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture
How Docker 19.03 makes it simple to build images for most hardware platforms.
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Monorepos and the Fallacy of Scale
In a recent blog post entitled “Monorepos: Please don’t,” Matt Klein discusses the pros and cons - as it turns out, mostly cons in his view - of monorepos. The long and short of it is that he thinks that they are not a good fit for most teams. After thinking about this question for a few years I have come to the…
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Running Forth Unikernels
Forth has been called lots of things and it was something that I figured we could easily unikernelize so I dove into it. I think it's safe to say I've never written any production Forth nor do I see myself doing so but having said that - let's begin!
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BPF port-based firewall for systemd services
The first post introduced the IPIngressFilterPath and IPEgressFilterPath feature for the upcoming systemd release 243 to support custom BPF programs as firewall for services. There was a simple example for a minimal BPF program written in C and how to load it for a systemd service. Then there was a standalone program…
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Out of Stock: How to Survive the LTO-8 Tape Shortage
If you’re currently using LTO for backup or archive, you have a few options for weathering the LTO-8 shortage. Let's take a look at the options.
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The Consul outage that never happened
Sometimes a good plan is the best tool for the job.
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Hugo and IPFS: how this blog works (and scales to serve 5k% spikes instantly)
Learnings from real-world experience with IPFS, and the curious stack that powers this website
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Announcing WSL 2
WSL 2 is a new architecture that allows for dramatic file system performance and full system call compatibility in WSL using a Linux kernel.
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bliki: Strangler Fig
Inspired by the strangler figs in Australia, a strangler fig application gradually draws behavior out of its host legacy application
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Amazon Web Services In Plain English
It's named what? Figure out what Amazon Web Services should actually have been called.
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Postmortem of database outage of January 31
Postmortem on the database outage of January 31 2017 with the lessons we learned.