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The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners
Get started with AWS Lambda with Complete Handbook For Beginners. Create your first simple AWS Lambda function.
Alpine Linux 3.4.0 Released
Alpine Linux
My favorite Erlang container
Forcing Kubernetes to let me do Erlang live code upgrades in a containerized deployment.
Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix
Nix users value its isolated, repeatable builds and simple sharing of development environments. Nix makes it easy to go back in time and rebuild software from years ago without issue.
Fixing the Unfixable: Story of a Google Cloud SSRF
David Schütz's bug bounty writeups
Why we are leaving Dropbox
I have been using Dropbox almost since its incubation back in 2007, ultimately ending up using 320+ GB for business and 375+ GB of personal…
Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota
The project is an upscale of a successful pilot built in 2013, and can be expanded further to a network of hubs producing fertiliser for farmer cooperatives.
Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, Swift Service Lifecycle. Service Lifecycle is a Swift package designed to help server applications, also known as services, manage their startup and shutdown sequences.
ThinkPad as a Server: The Follow-Up
The ThinkPad as a server is back, this time with a couple of adjustments.
Microservices – Please, Don’t (2016)
This blog post is adapted from a lightning talk I gave at the Boston Golang meetup in December of 2015. For a while, it seemed like everyone was crazy for microservices. You couldn’t open up your favorite news aggregator of choice without some company you had never heard of touting how the move t
‘You can't use Brotli for dynamic content’ and other misconceptions
And other horses**t.
InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next
Today were excited to announce the release of the open source time series database, InfluxDB 1.0 and our commercial offering, InfluxEnterprise.
Nix Derivations, Without Guessing
I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:
Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem
Terraform state is a distributed systems problem masquerading as file storage. Graph state fixes the bottlenecks.
Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service
In this post I explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables.
Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat
(This is the first of a series of technical posts I intend to write, and my goal is to help other engineers learn from the experience of…
How to use Podman inside of a container (2021)
One of the most asked about topics to folks working on upstream container technologies is running Podman within a container. Most of this has histo...
Envoy Proxy at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management
Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix.
My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf
The files mentioned in this article are available for viewing or cloning here: the 'pf-bedtime' repo .