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Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.
Many developers believe S3 is the "end of file system history". It is impossible to build a file/object storage system on AWS that can compete with S3...
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February 9, 2021: Post updated with the current regional availability of container image support for AWS Lambda. With AWS Lambda, you upload your code and run it without thinking about servers. Many customers enjoy the way this works, but if you’ve invested in container tooling for your development workflows, it’s not…
Like so many things I’m supposed to do but don’t — getting exercise, eating right, sleeping well, standing up for women and minorities in public spaces — backing up my data has always been something I’ve half-assed at best.
InfluxData Founder & CTO Paul Dix lays out a vision for the future of InfluxDB and introduces a new project that will form its basis: InfluxDB IOx.
Maybe I just haven't been paying attention before, but in the last year or so, there seems to have been an increase in discussion around the Nix package manager. This is also what got me to finally try it, and I'm very happy with the results, even if the road is a little bumpy.
Adaptation, Algorithms and Ambience
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently.
The technical and organisational decisions behind building a Kubernetes-based platform serving 1500 engineers across Adevinta’s marketplace portfolio.
I congratulate the Linux Mint team for clearly taking a stand against snaps today by removing it from their repository, it was something m...
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We have compiled a list of some of the best practices to prevent API key leakage and keep secrets and credentials safe. Secrets management doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all approach, so this list considers multiple perspectives so you can be informed in deciding to or not to implement strategies.
In 2020, Docker is the best medium for distributing and running most developer-facing software . It’s widely accepted that Docker is great for building and deploying the artifacts for your enterprise web app, but this is less well known when it comes to things like developer tools. However, running tools in containers…
The evolution of systems monitoring technology decisions and practices for multi-machine Hyperfeed and predictive technology.
VT-x is name of CPU virtualisation technology by Intel. KVM is component of Linux kernel which makes use of VT-x. And QEMU is a user-space application which allows users to create virtual machines.…
Secret Manager is a new GCP product that securely and conveniently stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
Maersk is the world’s largest integrated shipping and container logistics company.
Isovalent, the company behind Cilium, is announcing its $29M Series A financing round. Lets take a deeper look into where eBPF-based ...
Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has a massive asset
Learn how to configure K3s on bare-metal to run a Kubernetes cluster with just as much resilience and fault tolerance as a managed service.
TL;DR: I set up Minikube on an old (2012) MacBook Air and configured it to be able to connect from outside my home network so I would have an always-on Kubernetes cluster at home to experiment with.
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services. Today, ACK is available as a developer preview on GitHub. In this post we will give you a brief…
Anthos for AWS is now GA, and can manage legacy workloads
The “official” Python Docker image is useful, but to actually understand why, and to use it correctly, it’s worth understanding how exactly it’s constructed.
