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Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management
The completed Pilo controller, before final installation. The USB capture card and Arduino Nano USB serial are soldered to the underside of the 3B+.
Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext
The current state of systemd-sysext in Flatcar and the next steps
LLM-D: Kubernetes-Native Distributed Inference
Introducing llm-d: Kubernetes-native distributed LLM inference with KV-cache routing, disaggregated serving, and SOTA performance per dollar. Built on vLLM.
Durable Objects now Generally Available
Today, we’re announcing that Durable Objects are generally available and production-ready for you to use!
Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
There isn't one story to the IPv6 deployment timeline - it can be rapid or slow, bumpy or smooth - but it is 'up and to the right'.
Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
Leverage S3 and CloudFront to host your web app in an infinitely scalable way.
Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Stop using Digital Ocean Now For the greater good
Serdar Doğruyol, creator of Kemal, the iyi programming language, and gcry. Crystal Core Team member writing about Crystal, Ruby, and open source.
Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (2017)
Or subtitle: Maybe distributed programming is no longer a programming problem? (For the obvious impaired: This is meant to be more thought provoking than an actual truth) Over the last decade we ha…
About using Nix in my development workflow
TL;DR If you don’t want to read how I’ve got to use Nix and general information about it but only focus on its use to setup a development environment, please jump to Using Nix. Even from that part, the reading can take some time as I wanted to share what I’ve learned and found useful accross two months of intensive…
Graviton2 and Graviton3
What do modern cloud workloads look like? And what does that have to do with new chip designs? I found these gems in Peter DeSantis's ReInve...
Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)
Innovation never takes a break, and neither do I. From the steaming hot beaches of Cabo San Lucas I would like to tell you about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or Amazon EC2, now open for limited beta testing, with more beta slots to open soon. Amazon EC2 gives you access to a virtual computing […]
Kubernetes 1.20
We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.20, our third and final release of 2020! This release consists of 42 enhancements: 11 enhancements have graduated to stable, 15 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha. The 1.20 release cycle returned to its normal cadence of 11…
Electricity use of AI coding agents
Most of the discourse about the environmental impact of LLM use focuses on a ‘median query.’ What about a Claude Code session?
You Don't Need to Rebuild Your Development Docker Image on Every Code Change
You can mount code from your development machine into a container and save yourself tedious waiting times during development.
16 Years with IPv6
Torbjörn Eklöv, Co-Founder and Owner of Interlan, was an early adopter of IPv6. He shares the benefits of IPv6 adoption and offers advice to anyone who wants to enable IPv6 in their network with a static configuration from an ISP.
AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available
NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details…
One Million Database Connections
Learn how to use PlanetScale to safely include your database in your serverless functions without hitting connection limits in MySQL.
Google Kubernetes Engine adds support for Arm nodes
With Google Kubernetes Engine’s (GKE) support for the new Tau VM T2A, you can run your containerized workloads on the Arm architecture.
Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
Explore Tandem NonStop architecture principles and their relevance to high availability in software systems like Elixir, Gleam, and Erlang.
OpenTelemetry collector: What it is, when you need it, and when you don't
A practical, no-fluff guide to understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector - what it does, how it works, real architecture patterns (with and without it).