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I’ve been running a Kubernetes cluster on a mix of virtual and bare metal machines with Hetzner for about a year now, and while the setup has served me well, being a very exploratory exercise at the time it wasn’t very well documented.
Learn the shape of the logs of probability distributions, and you’ll be able to guess how they behave.
Debian Stretch stable includes the nftables framework, ready to use.Created by the Netfilter project itself, nftables is the firewalling toolthat replaces th...
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
A guide to building a transcoder using Exodus, FFmpeg, and AWS Lambda.
Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next
There is no denying that containers have taken over the mindset of most modern teams. With containers, comes the need to have orchestration to run those containers and currently there is no real alternative to Kubernetes. Love it or hate it, it has become the standard platform we have largely
I've paid for either a "shared hosting" subscription, or a VPS subscription, for my own use, for the last two decades. Mainly for serving web traffic, but also for backups, for Git repos, and for other bits and pieces.
Introduction In DirectX ❤ Linux - DirectX Developer Blog we wrote about DXCore & D3D12 support on WSLg and described OpenGL & OpenCL support by
It’s become fairly common knowledge that Yellowstone National Park, in addition to being incredibly beautiful, is sitting on top of an enormous supervolcano that catastrophically erupts every few hundred thousand years.
It's been one year since we moved GitLab.com to Kubernetes. We unpack the challenges and learnings from this major migration.
We are announcing Cloudflare Calls, a new product that lets developers build real-time audio and video apps
This guide describes how to stream audio from your smartphone to your computer over Bluetooth.
TL;DR: Mastodon’s Sidekiq deferred execution jobs are the limiting factor for scaling federated traffic in a single-server or small cluster deployment. Sidekiq performance scales poorly under a single process model, and can be limited by database performance in a deployment of the default Dockerized configuration.
Discover how PlanetScale handles one million queries per second (QPS) with horizontal sharding in MySQL
We are excited to add support for .NET 6 to Lambda. It’s fast to get started or migrate existing functions to .NET 6, with many new features in .NET 6 to take advantage of. Read the Lambda Developer Guide for more getting started information.
There are many good reasons to use a microservices architecture. In this post, we examine 6 factors to help you decide when to use—and when not to use—microservices.
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A few weeks ago we upgraded a lot of the core infrastructure in our New York (okay, it’s really in New Jersey now – but don’t tell anyone) data center. We love being open with everything we do (including infrastructure), and really consider it one of the best job perks we have. So here’s how and why we upgrade a data…
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.
The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab…
Learn about the benefits and challenges of using Bazel, Google's open-source monorepo build system, from experts who have experience with it. D...
An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity and build times while improving flexibility and predictability for shipping .NET releases.
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)
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