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Using Nix on macOS
I recently started using the Nix Package Manager on macOS and the process has been painful. In this post, I’m going to write down how I’m currently using Nix...
How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase
the secret is in the architecture
Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone
At Google I/O earlier this year, we added PHP, the fourth language runtime on Google App Engine in Limited Preview. Today we’re moving to P...
My solar-powered blog is now on lithium iron phosphate
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update 1 . In this update, I want to discuss my battery upgrade.
My Raspberry Pi cluster
So I accidentally ordered too many Raspberry Pi's. Therefore, I built a small cluster out of them. I thought I'd write up a parts list for o...
Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
Discusses the problem of Gmail takeouts as a single giant file and provides detailed background on the gmail-mbox-codec app that allows efficient incremental backups of said file.
Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust
In this post, we'll talk about how Modal handles real-time HTTP requests and WebSockets in serverless functions.
Kubernetes 1.11 includes In-Cluster Service Load Balancing and CoreDNS
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.11, our second release of 2018! Today’s release continues to advance maturity, scalability, and flexibility of Kubernetes, marking significant progress on features that the team has been hard at work on over the last year. This newest version graduates key…
Amazon EC2 Instance Update – Faster Processors and More Memory
Last month I told you about the Nitro system and explained how it will allow us to broaden the selection of EC2 instances and to pick up the pace as we do so, with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. This will allow us to give you access to the latest […]
Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning
Linux latency on the desktop and in games compared to Windows. Network streaming with Sunshine and Moonlight. Tuning the KWin compositor for lower latencies.
Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflix
Prasanna Vijayanathan, Renzo Sanchez-Silva
On the joy of podman and auto-updates (2022)
podman provides an integrated auto-update mechanism, which I recently applied to all of my containers running on feldspaten. The mechanism is nice, but at first appears a bit counter-intuitive. In this post ’m trying to explain how you can use the mechanism and what to watch out for. I’ll start with the trap I think…
Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus
While starting my first year at the Colorado School of Mines, I came across a rather interesting fact: the local DNS servers will assign a subdomain to each device that connects to the network. This means that a device called “meow” will be visible as “meow.mines.edu” on any campus wifi, though the network still…
Sandstorm for Work Beta: LDAP, SAML, Organization Management
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (Follow-Up)
This is a follow-up post to “Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1” , continuing the journey of exploring Docker on Apple’s new M1 machines.
My deployment platform is a shell script
my deployment platform is a shell script 2024-04-09 like many people, i fell in love with free software because i could install it. i'd come home from work and install a bunch of software. what fun! tee hee! a playground and i'm the prince! but eventually, relentlessly, it all starts to feel more like a horror show…
Self-host your mail server
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
$15 Dedicated servers from OVH
While most of VPS providers are trying hard to stay in the business with their sub $5 VPS plans, OVH which is the worlds biggest consumer data center located in France is now ( uh for sometime ) offering $15 a month dedicated servers. While OVH has data center in Canada, this cheap offering is only available in their…
Monzo Stand-In
Our customers reasonably expect to be able to spend on their card, make bank transfers and pay their bills 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their lives don’t have downtime for maintenance so nor should we. We dedicate a lot of our engineering effort to minimise the risk of downtime during technical migrations and…
My thoughts about Fly.io (so far) and other newish technology I'm getting into
Hartley writes about full stack software engineering and AI-driven software development.
Cloudy with a Chance of Lock-In
There lots of products that came to market in the recent past and that will come to market in the near future that use some kind of cloud hosted component. In many cases these products rightly use some kind of off-device service in order to provide you with features that would otherwise not be possible. Sometimes…
Fallback from CDN to local jQuery
There's a great website called http://whoownsmyavailability.com that serves as ...
Kargo, a multi-stage application lifecycle orchestrator
Meet Kargo, the open source continuous promotion tool from the creators of Argo that moves changes from stage to stage with GitOps, not CI scripts.