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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
Nuclear power currently makes up slightly less than 20% of the total electricity produced in the US, largely from plants built in the 70s and 80s.
Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
A day early, the Biden Administration has quietly launched the new website that allows households to order four COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.
Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
As a follow-up to the similar milestone reached for our WSL image a few months ago, I’m happy to share that Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image! This bit-for-bit reproducible image is distributed under a new “repro” tag. The reason for this is due to one noticeable caveat: to ensure…
Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores
For the last few years, Microsoft has stated during event keynotes and in other places that Linux is a rapidly growing operating system (OS) being used within Microsoft Azure. They had proudly stat…
Deno Queues
Introducing Deno Queues - zero config, scalable messaging with a guaranteed at-least-once delivery. This new primitive builds on the foundation set by Deno KV, and is available today in the Deno JavaScript runtime and Deno Deploy.
Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
Some months ago, Google launched their Alpha program for their upcoming CDN service. We kept a close eye to their development and in the meanwhile, in NEXT 2016 Google has already announced the Beta phase of their CDN. We already discussed how this new product will fit in the broad palette of content distribution…
Why Self-Host?
Let me make the argument why you should start self-hosting more of your personal services.
A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
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My Homelab Setup
How I repurposed my old gaming PC to set up a home server for data storage, backups, and self-hosted apps.
Why we are not leaving the cloud
What we learned from our community vetting our proposal to leave the cloud.
Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
Serverless is like a black hole. It promised exciting adventures, but the gravity sucked me in and I spent most of my efforts dealing with its complexity, in...
Caching at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
MRSK vs. Fly.io
Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io
AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
I am fascinated by things that are simple on the surface and complex underneath! For example, consider the popular padlock icon that is used to signify that traffic to and from a web site is encrypted: How does the browser know that it should display the green padlock? Well, that’s quite the story! It all […]
Cloudflare Pages goes full stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
AWS EC2 Container Service
Earlier this year I wrote about container computing and enumerated some of the benefits that you get when you use it as the basis for a distributed application platform: consistency & fidelity, development efficiency, and operational efficiency. Because containers are lighter in weight and have less memory and…
My Amazon S3 Mistake
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Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions
We are open-sourcing Supabase Edge Runtime allowing you to host your Edge Functions anywhere.
CoreOS Stable Release
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
I gave in to my impulses and bought myself a small single board computer to be my power-efficient home server, here's how it went.
More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs
When we look at the general security posture of Let’s Encrypt, one of the things that worries us most is how much of the operating system and network infrastructure is written in unsafe languages like C and C++. The CA software itself is written in memory safe Golang, but from our server operating systems to our…
Building a NAS
I’ve been fascinated by high-volume, fault-tolerant data storage systems for a long time. I started my data storage setup in earnest with a 4-disk RAID 5 array on an ARC-1210 controller installed in my daily-driver Windows desktop. When that array inevitably filled up, I added another array on a second ARC-1210. That…
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users
An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.
Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
Starting at 1342 UTC today we experienced a global outage across our network that resulted in visitors to Cloudflare-proxied domains being shown 502 errors (“Bad Gateway”). The cause of this outage was deployment of a single misconfigured rule within the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)