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How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53
How to host your static website like Jekyll with Amazon S3 static website hosting and CloudFront CDN. This will make your website much faster and more responsive to visitors all around the world.
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 […]
Bash bug: the other two RCEs, or how we chipped away at the original fix
The patch that implements a prefix-based way to mitigate vulnerabilities in bash function exports has been out since last week and has been...
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.
Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it
You learned about Docker . It's awesome and you're excited. You go and create a Dockerfile:
Incident Report – DDoS Attack
On Monday, December 1st, 2014, we experienced a major volumetric DDoS attack aimed at a customer's domain. Here is our full report.
Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation
For a long time one of the recommendations for a faster site has been to “serve your static content from a cookieless domain”. This sugges...
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…
Outage post-mortem
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage (2010)
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions: Click Here. When we started Backblaze, our goal was to provide unlimited
Introducing Pseudo IPv4
Today is June 6. For the last two years, the date has been celebrated as World IPv6 Day. CloudFlare has offered full IPv6 support as well as our IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway since 2012.
Improved default settings for Linux machines
A quick overview of Linux settings I change on almost every machine I manage.
Logging can be tricky
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
Etcd – The Road to 1.0
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
Today we announce Consul, a solution for service discovery and configuration. Consul is completely distributed, highly available, and scales to thousands of nodes and services across multiple datacenters. Some concrete problems Consul solves: finding the services applications need (database, queue, mail server, etc.)…
An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform
Everything at Google, from Search to Gmail, is packaged and run in a Linux container. Each week we launch more than 2 billion container inst...
Docker 0.9: introducing execution drivers and libcontainer
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.