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Microservices without the Servers

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager At LinuxCon/ContainerCon 2015 I presented a demo-driven talk titled, “Microservices without the Servers”. In it, I created an image processing microservice, deployed it to multiple regions, built a mobile app that used it as a backend, added an HTTPS-based API using Amazon API…

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Containers, microservices, and service meshes

There is a lot of material out there about services meshes, and this is another one. Yay! But why? Because I would like to give you the perspective of someone who wish service meshes did exist 10 years ago, long before the rise of container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes. I’m not claiming that this perspective…

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Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

zeroserve is a small, fast, zero-config HTTPS server. You hand it a tarball of a website and it serves it - over HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3, with hot reload and a tiny resident footprint. The twist is that you can drop eBPF programs into the tarball and they run on every request, in userspace, as sandboxed middleware …

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Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)

Late last year, I started experiencing some unusual intermittent connection issues on my Desktop. In general, I had a stable connection with average latency; however, at (seemingly) random times throughout the week, I would start experiencing sudden 2000ms+ latency spikes every couple of seconds.

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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated

Thanks HN folks for all the comments. To clarify a bit, the cables are pulled through PVC conduits under the flooring before being buried in cement. Currently the hypothesis for why the cable disintegrated so quickly is hydrolysis. Singapore is extremely humid after all. A second possibility is that I keep the…

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What the f*** is the edge?

The edge - or edge-computing has become the latest installment in a never ending chain of tech-buzzwords electrifying investors and managers alike. But beyond the hype lies a fairly simple concept - with enormous potential"