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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 341 posts.
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Monitoring Elixir Apps on Fly.io with Prometheus and PromEx
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Emacs Tramp over AWS SSM APIs
Cattle not pets The majority of AWS EC2 I need to operate these days are members of Kubernetes clusters. For remote access to them I’m more commonly authenticating to the Kube API to spawn a privileged ephemeral debugger pod rather than accessing the host directly. I have little need for host access even for the…
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Using an ETL framework vs. writing yet another ETL script
Writing an ETL script is easy; making it production-ready and maintainable is much harder. Why to use an open-source EL(T) framework instead.
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Docker in Production: A History of Failure (2016)
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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Who's at the Helm?
Or, how to deploy 25+ CVEs to prod in one command!
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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era
By Xiaomei Liu, Rosanna Lee, Cyril Concolato
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The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server
world wide web benji-style
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Living with single-tenant and multi-tenant architectures
Lessons learned, observations and reflections
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SLSA, an End-to-End Framework for Supply Chain Integrity
Posted Kim Lewandowski, Google Open Source Security Team & Mark Lodato, Binary Authorization for Borg Team Supply chain integrity attacks—u...
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IBM Z/OS v2.5, Next-Gen Operating System Designed for Hybrid Cloud and AI
IBM announced IBM z/OS V2.5, the next-generation operating system (OS) for IBM Z, designed to accelerate client adoption of hybrid cloud and AI and drive application modernization projects.
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Flowchart: How should I run containers on AWS?
As of Late 2021, which AWS service should I use to run my new containerized app in production?
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EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking
Once I finished writing ec2-boot-bench, the natural next step was to run some tests — in particular, to see how FreeBSD compared to other operating systems used in EC2. I used the c5.xlarge instance type and tested FreeBSD releases since 11.1-RELEASE (the first FreeBSD release which can run on the c5.xlarge instance…
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Introduction to Hippo: The WebAssembly PaaS
Hippo makes it easy to run applications and services at scale
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The Syslog Hell
Syslog. You’ve probably heard about that, especially if you are into monitoring or security. Syslog is perceived to be the common, unified way that systems can send logs to otherContinue reading
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Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi
I’ll be walking you step by step on how I built a bare-metal, 3-node Kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pi. I'll also share some tips and tricks I learned along the way.
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HashiCorp Nomad 1.1 Beta
Nomad 1.1 delivers more than 10 new features to enable more flexible scheduling and a simplified operator experience.
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What’s in a package
There is no shortage of package managers. Each tool makes its own set of tradeoffs regarding speed, ease of use, customizability, and reproducibility. Guix occupies a sweet spot, providing reproducibility by design as pioneered by Nix , package customization à la Spack from the command line, the ability to create…
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Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB
Lately I’ve been trying to learn more about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and some other popular technologies. Since I work at a large tech company, I spend a lot of my professional time using pr…
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The security scanner that cried wolf
If you’ve ever been alarmed by how many security vulnerabilities your Docker image has, even after you’ve installed security updates, here’s what’s going on.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
A look at the quarterly and lifetime failure rates of 175,443 drives, including a comparison of failure rates of HDD and SSD boot drives.
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Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
Vantage users can now add a Slack webhook to their Vantage account and receive daily, weekly or monthly reports of their cloud costs in their team's Slack channels.
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Back to Linux
Background Note: I’ve started writing this article about one year ago (September 2020), but I dropped it at some point. Its final version is way less ambitious than my original plans for it, mostly because I forgot some of things that were on mind back then. Still, better than nothing. A long time ago (in 2011) I…
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Good and Bad Monitoring
You remember that time you passive-aggressively completed a story in the most useless way possible to check that checkbox? That’s most…