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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 314 posts.
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Why Databases Are Not for Docker Containers
If we attentively look at IT industry at 2017, all of us will see “containers” and “Docker” as the top buzzwords ever. We started to package developed software in Docker containers in every field. …
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Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices
I'm trying to learn ways to minimize my reliance upon large companies for handling my day-to-day personal data. So I figured calendar and contacts should be on my list of things to self-host. This post is about how I migrated all my Google calendars and phone contacts to my own server without losing any features...
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Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy
What users often call a “seamless” or “hitless” reload is a configuration update or a service upgrade performed with no impact on user experience.
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The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse
This is the extended form of a comment that got some interest on Hackernews. After a grace period of one year, Parse is now offline. This…
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What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the Busiest Gambling Sites
tl;dr For several years I managed the 3rd line site reliability operation for many of the world’s busiest gambling sites, working for a little-known company that built and ran the core backen…
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Rapid release at massive scale
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Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte
For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing curve has flattened out.
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Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
A key part of running a reliable database as a service is ensuring you have a good plan for disaster recovery. This post introduces WAL-G, the successor to WAL-E for Postgres, a complete rewrite of WAL-E that provides the same functionality plus 4x faster restores on recovery.
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Open Container Initiative specifications are 1.0
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes
Fission is a Functions as a Service (FaaS) / Serverless function framework built on Kubernetes. Fission allows you to easily create HTTP services on Kubernetes from functions. It works at the source level and abstracts away container images (in most cases). It also simplifies the Kubernetes learning curve, by enabling…
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A 1 KB Docker Container
Field notes from a software developer
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HAProxy vs. Nginx for load balancing (2016)
Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and everything. That give them some interesting characteristics. First, they are the mos…
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Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing Amazon EC2 P3 Instances
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New in Debian stable Stretch: nftables
Debian Stretch stable includes the nftables framework, ready to use.Created by the Netfilter project itself, nftables is the firewalling toolthat replaces th...
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Golang SSH Redux
I’ll cover the post/blog, and then I’d like to counter some misconceptions. While part of me thinks “I must’ve been very unclear to have so many people misunderstand”, I also saw how many people commented without bothering to read, so really there’s a limit to how much self-flagellation will happen.
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AWS Single Sign-On
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)
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Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements
In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and…
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Moby: An open-source project to advance containerization
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Systemd Sucks, Long Live Systemd
systemd seems to be a dividing force in the Linux community. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground to...
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Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today. In this landscape, we see enormous opportunity for the cloud to accelerate innovation, support people across the continent who are working to transform their businesses, explore new entrepreneurship opportunities and help solve some of the world’s…
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The end-to-end refresh of our server hardware fleet
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Announcing the New AWS Secret Region
The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. AWS customers benefit from data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. AWS supports more classification…
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Consul 1.0 Released
Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.0. Consul is a tool for service discovery and runtime configuration for distributed applications and infrastructure. Consul joins Vagrant and Packer as the third HashiCorp product to reach the 1.0 milestone.