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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
Hard drive failure rates on an annualized and quarterly basis for 139,867 hard drives by make and manufacturer.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 354 posts.
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Low latency tuning guide
This guide describes how to tune your AMD64/x86_64 hardware and Linux system for running real-time or low latency workloads.
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That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
Some years ago I decided to install a server at home for use as a NAS (network-attached storage) in my home network, and for an Internet-facing server. I live in a place where blackouts are very in…
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Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users
What are the monthly costs of running a webapp on DigitOcean? I dig into the numbers here.
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Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
The reduction of CI/CD minutes aligns with the majority of free user usage
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Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
Looking back at this week's posts on the design, specifications, and performance of Cloudflare’s Gen X servers using AMD CPUs. Every server can run every service. This architectural decision has helped us achieve higher efficiency across the Cloudflare network.
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Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google
One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google's products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that's not the point of this post. I found out about…
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AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
This week’s analysis on multi-cloud being a bad idea is once again pushed back by breaking news. In this case, AWS is suing a former executive, Brian
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I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
Ben Nadel explains why his team has been hard at work merging "microservices" back into the "monolith". His team is not anti-microservices. And, in fact, both the expanding and the contracting of serv
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Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)
Kubernetes is the 800-pound gorilla of container orchestration. It powers some of the biggest deployments worldwide, but it comes with a price tag...
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Tech Preview of Docker Desktop for M1
Apple has recently shipped the first Macs based on the new Apple M1 chips. Today we have a public preview that you can download and try out!
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Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs
We tested and benchmarked 42 of some of the most popular top-level domains and aggregated the results into a global median average.
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Attack Matrix for Kubernetes
While Kubernetes has many advantages, it also brings new security challenges.
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Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
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eBPF Is Awesome
A blog about programming, technology and open-source stuff.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020
We take a look at the Q1 2020 and lifetime performance of 129,764 hard drives used in the Backblaze data centers.
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Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
Across multiple cultures around the world, this time of year is a time of celebration and sharing of gifts with the people we care the most about.
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Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
Materialize offers a streaming data warehouse for real-time analytics & interoperability with millisecond latency, revolutionizing data handling.
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A better Kubernetes from the ground up
If we were to start over from first principles, what would I do differently than k8s?
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Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront
Hosting static websites is great. As they only contain static assets to be downloaded by the visitor’s browser - think HTML, CSS, Javascript, Fonts, images - no server-side code such as Java or PHP needs to be run. They’re therefore typically faster to load than dynamic websites, they have a smaller attack surface…
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What happens when you update your DNS
What happens when you update your DNS?
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Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack
We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. While investigations are underway, we want to provide the defender community with intel to understand the scope and impact, remediation guidance, and detections and protections we have built as a result.
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Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux
The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 home server
With the release of the raspberry pi 4, which features a 1.5 Ghz processor, 1-4 Gb RAM, built-in networking and USB 3.0 ports, I decided to finally take the plunge and set up a home server with the pi. In this post we will go through setting up and configuring the pi to do 2 main things: 1) function as a media center…
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The Docker Compose Specification
Docker is pleased to announce that we have created a new open community to develop the Compose Specification.
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Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
Today, we are excited to announce the next phase of this with the launch of our new platform, Workers Unbound, without restrictive CPU limits in a private beta.
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How Tailscale Works
Understand the entire Tailscale system, how it works, how we built it, and its benefits compared to legacy VPNs. Use this article as a guide to quickly build your own Tailscale replacement.
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One Week of NixOS
The website of Jae.