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The rise of embarrassingly parallel serverless compute
How distributed serverless compute changes the game on whats possible
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 4,375 posts.
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Cold restart whole system after total outage
"What are folks’ views on systems so large where cold-starting the whole system is almost impossible?"... — M'colleague, Shivam, In A Slackroom Next Door.
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Fast CI with MicroVMs
I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.
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Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers
This incident remains the top priority for my engineering team and for our entire company.
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Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments
We compare NGINX performance in bare-metal and virtualized (hypervisor) environments, finding a small but measurable performance cost for hypervisors. We also find that performance in Kubernetes environments is worse for network-bound but not CPU-bound operations.
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The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server
NTP on a Raspberry-Pi - documents configuring a Raspberry Pi for headless operation, configuring NTP for remote monitoring, adding a GPS/PSS device (two discussed), and how well NTP performs in WAN-only, LAN, and PPS configurations.
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Coming Soon – Graviton2-Powered General Purpose EC2 Instances
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors…
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My EC2 Wishlist
While I've made engineers inside Amazon aware of all of these at various times, I think it's time to post my wishlist here — both so that a wider audience inside Amazon can hear more about these, and so that the FreeBSD community (especially the people who are financially supporting my work ) can see what I'm aiming…
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Making Netflix's Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective
By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park
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Mender – An open-source OTA software updater for embedded Linux devices
Today, the team behind Mender is very proud to announce the production-ready release of Mender, 1.0! Mender is the only open source (Apache 2.0) over-the-a
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Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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Avoiding the Distributed Monolith
If you’re considering a microservices implementation, and you enjoy this post, you might also enjoy my more recent post Gasp! You Might Not Need Microservices. I recently read a post called The False Dichotomy of Monoliths and Microservices by Jimmy Bogard, which I absolutely loved. While reading through it I noticed…
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A practical guide to incident management
This guide respresents our years of collective knowledge and experience, distilled into practical advice that can be adopted across your whole organization.
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New AWS UDP Load Balancing for Network Load Balancer
The Network Load Balancer is designed to handle tens of millions of requests per second while maintaining high throughput at ultra low latency, with no effort on your part (read my post, New Network Load Balancer – Effortless Scaling to Millions of Requests per Second to learn more). In response to customer requests…
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Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example
[Discuss this article and read other’s comments on the subject on this thread on Hacker News.] The three fundamental building blocks of computers, CPU, I/O and RAM can come under pressure due to co…
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Ahrefs saved $400m in 3 years by not going to the cloud
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Clouds for IT infrastructure are so popular lately that moving into the cloud has become a trend. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) …
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25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
First part of a story on how I’ve built 25 Gbps router for home use.
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Install Asdf: One Runtime Manager to Rule All Dev Environments
Almost everyone I know who uses a computer, for...
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TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs
We are in 2020 and the US president is about to ban TikTok, a video-sharing social network mobile app, because “it poses a risk to US…