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When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 289 posts.
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The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows
Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
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‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’
If, like me, you’re over 40 and work in IT, you’ll probably remember a time when everyone used Windows, and a small but growing proportion of people were wasting their lives compiling Linux in their spare time.
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Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack
Today we’re announcing the beta of Cloud Run, our new serverless compute platform for containerized apps with portability built-in.
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Blending complex systems made my latency 10x higher
Every time someone reports higher latency after migrating to Kubernetes, the root cause is an assumption that changed. This is one of those stories.
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Is there hope for IPv6?
Last year Georgia Tech’s Internet Governance Project teamed up with ICANN’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer to research the economic factors affecting the decisions of network operators to deploy Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The study was commissioned because we both believe that the Internet community…
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Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole
This guide will walk you through the setup of a remote machine that will act as a personal VPN server at the cost of 3 to 5 USD per month. We will also configure it to act as a DNS resolver that will automatically block spam, tracking, advertising and malware domains on all of your connected devices.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019
A problem that would have been discovered in the future would now be captured by the SMART stats when the process reads that section of disk today.
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AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud
Google is using the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor for its own workloads, and will offer VMs based on the chip to Google Cloud customers.
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From 30 to 230 Docker containers per host
I could not find much information on the interwebs how many containers you can run per host. So here are mine and the issues we ran into along the way.
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Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers
A complete and comprehensive guide to learn about, set up, and deploy Chaos Monkey and other similar tools for creating chaos. Download the whole guide.
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Kubernetes Security Best Practices
By Connor Gilbert, product manager at StackRox Last month, the Kubernetes ecosystem was shaken by the discovery of the first major security flaw in Kubernetes, the world’s most popular container…
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Move Fast and Migrate Things: How We Automated Migrations in Postgres
At Benchling, we’re building a platform to help scientists do research. Hundreds of thousands of scientists across academia and enterprise…
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Linux Observability with BPF
Why BPF and XDP are something you should learn.
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Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours
Nodecraft moved 23TB of customer backup files from AWS S3 to Backblaze B2 in just 7 hours, and saved big on egrees fees with Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance.
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Announcing AMP Real URL
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly.
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Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability
What happens when we collect too much data?
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Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike
Microsoft’s recent licensing change for Windows Server is a great modern-day example of why so many businesses hated Microsoft two decades ago. Is this an aberration, or are they back to their old tricks?
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When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
It starts with someone posting an AWS press release in the company chat. “AWS Announces FooBar,” the headline reads. The announcement skirts around technical details, as usual, but contains a worrying amount of buzzwords that overlap with the company’s product. Somebody responds with a grimace emoji 😬. Others reply…
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Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)
I have long wanted to create my own desktop operating system targeting the Raspberry Pi. I believe we should have a hackable desktop environment that is both powerful and lightweight, similar to BeOS and the Amiga. To build this desktop we really need full control over how apps draw to the screen, but still have…
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Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices
A walkthrough of a couple of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) features with security recommendations and advice on how to configure your GCP environments.
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Openwrt 18.06.2 released
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Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes
In this deep-dive, we identified and worked through sporadic latency issues with services running on Kubernetes in our environment.
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Static web – back to the roots?
Exploring the shift back to static site generators to sanitize web development practices
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Grafana v6.2
Improve operational efficiency, monitor your infrastructure, and analyze metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana, the leading open source tool for dashboards and visualizations.
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