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Making a Linux-managed network switch
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 281 posts.
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Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
Over the last few months, Baker and I have been digging in deep on Heat Pumps . I'm putting my explorations here on pause but wanted to write up everything we've learned over the last few months.
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Why is it so hard to build an airport?
Airports are a critical piece of modern infrastructure.
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S3 is showing its age
I'm squarely in the trough of disillusionment with S3.
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Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide
AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets are a popular storage service used by software companies and organizations to store public as well as sensitive data. However, the implementation of this servic...
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Against /tmp
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea , which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems.
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Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF
By Jose Fernandez, Sebastien Dabdoub, Jason Koch, Artem Tkachuk
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How good are American roads?
We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention.
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OpenTelemetry Tracing in < 200 lines of code
Distributed Tracing is scary and complicated... right?
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Monorepo – Our Experience
Nine months ago, we switched to a monorepo. Here's a detailed look at what led to the change, how we approached it, and what the experience has been like.
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South Pole Water Infrastructure
Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
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A Eulogy for DevOps
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?
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Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
wingolog: article: guix on the framework 13 amd
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Arm64 on GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions now offers Arm-hosted runners with images built by Arm for developers to begin building on the latest and most sustainable processors on the market.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024
Analyze Backblaze's Q1 2024 hard drive stats, including annualized failure rates, average ages of failure, and insights on over 279,000 drives.
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Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct
Blog posts from the lytix team
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About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024
On March 7, 2024, tailscale.com was unavailable for approximately 90 minutes due to an expired TLS certificate. We were able to identify and address the issue quickly, and the downtime was mostly limited to our marketing materials and documentation; still, we would like to explain exactly what happened, what the…
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It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
Discover the challenges of migrating from Google Domains and Container Registry. Explore Google Cloud's strengths and pitfalls, plus read why strategy is key.
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"BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home
The infrastructure underlying AS54316 -- the network supporting the services offered by the AP Foundation -- has historically been based out of a datacenter in NYC (NetActuate in Telehouse Chelsea). To add some resiliency, I thought it'd be interesting -- and a potentially fun challenge -- to leverage some spare real…
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Glory is only 11MB/sec away (2023)
One thing is certain in life: if you’re getting something for a steal, someone is getting screwed, and it’s probably you elsewhere. This isn’t an anti-capitalist rant, it’s just the truth. Companies don’t exist if they don’t make money. Unless there’s some innovation, rest assured that you’re overpaying somewhere else.
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Good Retry, Bad Retry
Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.
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Building and scaling Notion's data lake
How Notion build and grew our data lake to keep up with rapid growth
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Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)
This is one in a series of papers I’m reading from OSDI and Usenix ATC. These paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox , or you can subscribe to the Atom feed . As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions!
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Just use Postgres
Advice: When you are making a new application that requires persistent storage of data, like is the case for most web applications, your default choice should be Postgres .
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.
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K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due
Kubernetes Service Meshes aren't free anymore, what teams need to know moving forward.
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The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023
This investigation was surprising to me so I thought it would be interesting to share my findings and I hope you'll like it.