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Our 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off
Backblaze is transitioning from using 4 TB hard drives to using 6 TB hard drives in the Storage Pods we will be deploying over the coming months...
Solving the Mystery of Link Imbalance: A Metastable Failure State at Scale
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Deis v1.0 – Production Ready
Discover Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for secure, scalable containerized app deployment and management with fast delivery on managed Kubernetes clusters.
Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
Adaptation, Algorithms and Ambience
Npm security post-mortem
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
When your IP traffic in AWS disappears into a black hole
When we’d spin up new machines, some would fail our health checks. There was no network traffic between these boxes and our database machines.. The ARP tables on the database boxes had cached, outdated MAC addresses from no-longer-living boxes.
Git Push Heroku Master: Now 40% Faster
Flow is an important part of software development. The ability to achieve flow during daily work makes software development a uniquely enjoyable profession
Building My Own Home Router
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Docker 1.3 is out
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Celery – Best Practices
If you’ve worked with Django at some point you probably had the need for some background processing of long running tasks. Chances are you’ve used some sort of task queue, and Celery is currently the most popular project for this sort of thing in the Python (and Django) world (but there are others).
Broken by design: systemd
Recently the topic of systemd has come up quite a bit in various communities in which I'm involved, including the musl IRC channel and on the Busybox mailing list .
Avoiding systemd isn't hard
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Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives – Faster, Simpler and Less Expensive
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Quick notes about the bash bug, its impact, and the fixes so far
We spent a good chunk of the day investigating the now-famous bash bug (CVE-2014-6271), so I had no time to make too many jokes about it on...
Microsoft, RedHat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack join Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source manager for Docker containers, based on Google’s years of experience using containers at Internet scale. Today...
GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow
GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is terribly slow. It will make 35% of your visitors go away.