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Hard Drive Stats for 2019
In 2019 we monitored the performance of 122,507 hard drives. In this article we look at the failure rates by make and model.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 354 posts.
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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…
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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...
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Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of…
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Grafana 7.0
The Grafana 7.0 release is full of major new features and enhancements. Find out all the details here.
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GitHub Container Registry
GitHub Container Registry introduces easy sharing across organizations, fine-grained permissions, and free, anonymous access for public container images
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New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
N2D VMs are the first AMD-based instances on Google Cloud.
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A Linux sysadmin's introduction to cgroups
So you've heard of this thing called cgroups, and you are interested in finding out more. Perhaps you caught mention of it while listening to a talk abou...
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I made a simple geolocation service
Learn how to create simple Geolocation service without 3rd-party APIs
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The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers
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…
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Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3
Here's another iteration on the Zero Terminal projects I've been working on for a few years. For those of you who haven't seen them, I've been trying to design the most usable all in one Pi Zero computer out there.
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Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack
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.
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The good parts of AWS: a visual summary
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.
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Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
I will be pleased if you subscribe to my Instagram (instagram.com/uptime.lab) and Twitter (twitter.com/Merocle). I do not post any spam — only my own projects and quite rarely. Your subscription is essential to me! If you're wondering how it can be used and why, please look at the introduction in the first article…
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How we use HashiCorp Nomad
A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.
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Kafka Removing Zookeeper Dependency
Say goodbye to Kafka ZooKeeper dependency! KIP-500 introduces a new way of storing data in Kafka itself, rather than in external systems such as ZooKeeper.
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Kafka Is Not a Database
Get insights on Materialize's latest updates & trends in streaming databases & data products.
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Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?
This article walks through the technical and cultural reasons why Facebook is not in the cloud business, and whether it will be in the future.
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Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes
Some recent backtracking from what we have been calling "Microservices" has sparked anew the debate around that software architecture pattern. It turns out that for increasingly more software people, …
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Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger
Alpine Linux is often recommended as a smaller, faster Docker base image. But if you’re using Python, it will slow down your build and make your image larger.
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US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M
I was shocked to learn that the US had no plan to deal with a pandemic, and had not even done basic things like stockpile enough surgical masks or an adequate supply of testing equipment (or at least the ability to produce the testing equipment rapidly.) Some people say this is
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Docker's Second Death
I do enterprise cloud stuff at Google, also at k8sfiles.com. Words are my own.
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How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
Leveraging AWS lightsail to achieve a minimal AWS bill
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The Big Little Guide to Message Queues
A guide to the fundamental concepts that underlie message queues, and how they apply to popular queueing systems available today.