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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 174 posts.

2014
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Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management for Versioned Objects

Today I would like to tell you about a powerful new AWS feature that bridges a pair of existing AWS services and makes another pair of existing features far more useful! Let’s start with a quick review. S3 & Versioned Objects I’m sure that you already know about Amazon S3. First launched in 2006, S3 […]

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Clean OS reinstalls with propellor

You have a machine someplace, probably in The Cloud, and it has Linux installed, but not to your liking. You want to do a clean reinstall, maybe switching the distribution, or getting rid of the cruft. But this requires running an installer, and it's too difficult to run d-i on remote machines.

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Microservices for the Grumpy Neckbeard

Recently microservices have been getting a lot of attention, both positive and negative. Articles about them tend to fall into two camps, which I'll affectionately label the hipster camp and the neckbeard camp. The hipster camp tends to strongly favor microservices, due to the excellent benefits they provide regarding…