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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 4,374 posts.
This week, we'll dive into how we migrated Uber’s business-critical ledger data to LedgerStore. We'll detail how we moved more than a trillion entries (making up a few petabytes of data) transparently and without causing disruption, and we'll discuss what we learned during the migration.
At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.
This is #1 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture. Welcome.Previous post (#0): Stack Overflow: A Technical DeconstructionNext post...
Nix and Docker both tackle the works-on-my-machine problem, but in different ways. A practical comparison of their approaches to reproducible environments.
The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality.
Today, we gave a keynote presentation at the Open Networking Summit, where we shared details about Espresso, Google’s peering edge architecture—the latest offering in ou…
This is the Compute Blade, and I'm test driving it in a four-node cluster: I'm testing the Dev version, and @Merocle from Uptime Lab sent four Blades, a 3D-printed 4-bay case (a metal 1U rackmount enclosure is in the works), and two fan modules. He's been testing 40 of these in a rack at Jetbrains for months, and…
Saving over 100x on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner by Zach Wasserman
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.
A hands-on Docker tutorial covering containers, Dockerfiles, Compose, multi-container apps, and deployment to AWS.
WebAssembly is a true write-once-run-anywhere experience.
There was a time when software (and games! Games are just software for fun!) were distributed on DVD. A physical disk that you would insert into your system ...
We take a deep dive on hard drive performance stats from 73,653 hard drives. What are the most reliable hard drives by size, manufacturer, and model?
See a real-world example of how Google’s SRE practices can identify and help fix issues, even at the bottom of the hardware stack.
A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users. Monthly paid plans now include three free users, and bill you only for additional users who actively exchange data over Tailscale (“usage-based billing”) rather than for a…
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
I recently picked up a Starlink Mini to use as a backup connection for my home network. The underlying technology is fascinating - thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit delivering broadband almost anywhere. With the new £4.50 standby plan, it's an excellent way to keep things online.
Back in March 2021, I wrote about how I replaced Docker with Podman on a Mac using VirtualBox and Vagrant after an old version of podman machine became depre...
ICANN received a total of 32 public comments from across the community on the Proposed Top-Level Domain String for Private Use. Thirteen of these were in support of the proposal. Of the remaining nineteen comments, six believed a shorter string should be selected, one believed a more meaningful string should be…
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies
