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Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy
How we took eggs out of the S3 basket.
Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
If you work in a newsroom, there’s a good chance you work with colleagues on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more. Google Workspace software is simple and powerful. But anyone working in a newsroom has probably asked themselves: What can Google see? What about our most sensitive conversations and documents? What…
Eliminating Toil
Learn what toil is in SRE, how it affects operational work, and why minimizing it is crucial for efficiency and morale.
Skip the API, ship your database
The best code is the code unwritten. Avoid building a complex API layer by sharing your database between services.
It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine)
In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do we make terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings? We’ve seen different companies tackle this in different ways for technology like Ruby on Rails…
We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible
The European CTO’s Dilemma: Keeping Compliance outside AWS
Introducing Preemptible VMs
Many developers are going beyond web services and are leveraging the cloud’s scalability and pay-as-you-go nature for other compute-intens...
Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)
You are most likely familiar with AWS Lambda and Fargate — Amazon's serverless computing engines. At its nature, serverless computing introduces quite a challenging task requiring both tight security and great performance. For exactly that matter Amazon came up with its microVM solution called Firecracker .
Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
If you run a small SaaS business, you need a recurring billing solution, and there are a lot of options out there. There’s Chargify (from $149/month), Chargebee (from $99/month), Recurly (from $99/month), MoonClerk (from $15/month), etc. All of these platforms have features beyond recurring payments, which increases…
Introducing Heka
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, ...
How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years. Here’s why we decided it was worth undertaking, and how we moved a majority of our core services.
How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
Leveraging AWS lightsail to achieve a minimal AWS bill
Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
Today we are announcing plans to shut down the Ubuntu One file services. This is a tough decision, particularly when our users rely so heavily on the functionality that Ubuntu One provides. However, like any company, we want to focus our efforts on our most important strategic initiatives and ensure we are not spread…
Azure Container Instances
Containers have fundamentally changed the way developers develop their applications, the way applications are deployed, and the way system administrators manage their environments. Containers offer a broadly accepted and open standard, enabling simple portability between platforms and between clouds. Today, I am…
Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd
Finally, Podman has a Docker Compose alternative
Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
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Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
The New York Times crossword has been an integral part of daily life for many people since it started appearing in print in 1942. When The…
So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide
Tips and technical analysis on how to pick an H100 cluster (interconnect, reliability and CO2 emissions)
SystemD Service Hardening
Discover additional security options for systemd units, to include quadlets. These options are everything from system permissions, time manage, BPF, syscall & seccomp filters, etc., all to make your system more secure.
Microsoft Announces Nano Server
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Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
Cloudflare K2 is a serverless event streaming service built directly on top of R2 object storage for high-scale data movement and long-term retention. By decoupling producers and consumers at the edge, K2 enables durable, ordered log streams without the operational overhead of traditional broker clusters.