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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 402 posts.

2022
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BliKVM PCIe puts a computer in your computer

This is the BliKVM PCIe, a full computer on a PCI Express card. This is an IP KVM (Internet Protocol Keyboard-Video-Mouse) that can be put inside another computer or server. Most server motherboards already have remote 'lights-out' management functionality built in. Most frequently this is referred to as IPMI…

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Jurassic Cloud

We live in an age of rapid innovation; Every year, there is a new iPhone, three new crypto currencies, five new AWS services, and a hundred new JavaScript frameworks. We have been conditioned to expect new shiny things, to the point where many people equate “new” with “better” .

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How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr

traceroute vs mtr When a packet travels across the Internet, it travels through multiple routers. The traceroute and mtr tools can be used to identify the routers a packet passes through between you and a given destination IP address. traceroute is a one-shot sort of tool whereas mtr runs and agg

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Please Use ZFS with ECC Memory (2014)

In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a NAS. I would argue that if you do not use ECC memory, it's reasonable to also forgo on ZFS altogether and use any (legacy) file system that suits your needs.