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How Google Is Challenging AWS
AWS seems to have a dominant position in enterprise computing, but Google is trying to change the rules to favor their inherent strengths.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 4,374 posts.
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Transitioning from Docker to Podman
Learn how to install Podman, practice its basic commands, transition away from Docker, and set up Apache HTTP Server 2.4 in a CentOS container with Podman.
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A Server Naming Scheme
Here at MNX, we’ve been busy setting up a brand new data center for our cloud hosted services. We started off as a consulting company providing managed Linux services, which means we have been exposed to a ton of different customer environments and an equal number of schemes for naming equipment…not all of them good…
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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
If you’ve been keeping up on the latest tech news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the CPU security flaw that Google’s Project Zero disclosed last Wednesday. On Friday, w…
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Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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GitFlow considered harmful
GitFlow is the most popular Git branching model. After using it (and, more importantly, after seeing how it is used) for over a year now, I can say with confidence: I hate it. In the article, I try to explain why, and offer a better alternative.
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Cloudflare Email Service
Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure layer to make that easy: send, receive, and process email natively from your agents.
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October 21 post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.
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The future is not self-hosted
In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.
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How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
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A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
Urvashi Reddy | Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity Team Adam Berry | Tech Lead, Engineering Productivity Team Rui Li | Software…
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I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
An interesting thing happens when you follow the official Amplify guide.
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What is Nix and why you should try it
Normally our Unix systems organise the file system in a structure called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Installing into an FHS has limitations, what would happen if we want to install, for example, two different versions of ruby at the same time? Typically this isn't possible without explicitly specifying a…
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Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by default
Most Dockerfile examples for Python you’ll find on the Web are broken. And that’s a problem.
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I won free load testing
Long story short: a couple of my articles got really popular on a bunch of sites, and someone, somewhere, went “well, let’s see how much traffic that smart-ass can handle”, and suddenly I was on th...
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Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
In the first 45-minutes the market was open the faulty software deployment sent millions of child orders into the market resulting in 4 million transactions against 154 stocks for more than 397 mil…
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Linux Hardening Guide
Linux is not a secure operating system . However, there are steps you can take to improve it. This guide aims to explain how to harden Linux as much as possible for security and privacy. This guide attempts to be distribution-agnostic and is not tied to any specific one. DISCLAIMER: Do not attempt to apply anything in…
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Flutter for Linux
By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve…
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If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
SSH has some pretty gnarly issues when it comes to usability, operability, and security. The good news is this is all easy to fix. SSH is ubiquitous. It’s the de-facto solution for remote administration of *nix systems. SSH certificate authentication makes SSH easier to use, easier to operate, and more secure.
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1.1.1.1 outage explanation
Cloudflare is protected from attacks by the Gatebot DDoS mitigation pipeline. Gatebot performs hundreds of mitigations a day, shielding our infrastructure and our customers from L3 and L7 attacks.
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Internet protocols are changing
Guest Post: Learn about the significant recent changes being made to the core Internet protocols.
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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
No amount of tuning the backend service performance helped, and then I learned why. Oh no. Oh no no no no.
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Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Railway experienced a platform-wide disruption after Google Cloud incorrectly suspended our account, temporarily taking down all GCP-hosted infrastructure.
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HashiCorp IPO today
As we officially enter the public markets, we plan to continue to do what we think we do best: solving problems for our end users.
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with…
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Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day
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Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions
Update: We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. We are continuing to…
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Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Lidl is launching sovereign cloud computing in Europe. GDPR and data compliance is driving the EU to look for local alternatives.