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A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
This is a collection of information on severe ( SEV-0 or SEV-1 , the most severe incident classifications) incidents at Twitter that were at least partially attributed to cache from the time Twitter started using its current incident tracking JIRA (2012) to date (2022), with one bonus incident from before 2012. Not…
Non blocking and zero downtime ALTER statements in PostgreSQL with pg-osc
pg-osc is a CLI tool for making non-blocking, zero downtime schema changes in PostgreSQL
eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection
This is the first post of a many planned to shed light on the various networking techniques eBPF makes available to a Linux network developer.
Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The Journey
Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my mail server. I go through the configuration, line by line and explain. It’s not going to be a simple Copy/Paste to run your own mail server. You have been warned.
Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 years with the leading K8s package manager
Having worked with Helm for multiple years these 5 shortcomings always bugged my mind. From CRDs updates to multi namespace deployments.
Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service
Managing databases at scale is never easy. One of the options to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of structured data, including key-value and tabular formats, is Apache Cassandra. With Cassandra, you can use the expressive Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to build applications quickly. However, managing large…
My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
Trust me, there's a reason for this
AWS EC2 General Price Cut
It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]
Self-Hosted Homelab Website
This website, along with a stack of other projects—including virtualization, remote observability, VPNs, NAS, and more—runs from my wall-mounted home lab.
Nix and NixOS, my pain points
Posts and writings by Rémy Grünblatt 🍃
Using Makefile(s) for Go
Using Makefile(s) for Go — Danish Prakash
The Day “/Proc” Died
Solaris'd... This morning I got an email from our group manager asking about a UNIX server...
Accidental complexity, essential complexity, and Kubernetes
Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets
Binary Security found the undocumented APIs for Azure API Connections. In this post we examine the inner workings of the Connections allowing us to escalate privileges and read secrets in backend resources for services ranging from Key Vaults, Storage Blobs, Defender ATP, to Enterprise Jira and SalesForce servers.
Monzo: How our security team handle secrets
We recently designed a new system to manage secret information safely – from the keys that we use to sign your Mastercard transactions, to credentials for external services.
Restrict Access to your internal websites on AWS with BeyondCorp
Discover how BeyondCorp assists in securely restricting access to internal websites, ensuring organizational data remains protected.
BeyondCorp is dead, long live BeyondCorp
No organization has fully implemented zero trust architecture. Many advocates, including the US government, overlook devices as a key BeyondCorp component.
Happy Holidays from the App Engine team - 1.4.0 SDK released
App Engine version 1.4.0. is here! It’s our most significant release of the year for the App Engine SDK, including a number of very big feat...
Deploying a ReasonML React app with Docker
The top stories from Hasura: engineering, tutorials, product updates, GraphQL, frontend backend frameworks more!