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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half
A rack-scale design that drives data center power efficiency.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 281 posts.
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Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance
The Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is an integrated hardware and software solution that lets you run workloads at the tactical edge.
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XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta
This is one of several papers I’ll be reading from 2023’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). If you’d like to receive regular updates as soon as they’re published, check out my newsletter or follow me on the site formerly known as Twitter . Enjoy!
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My solar-powered and self-hosted website
How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.
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Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
Cloud cost optimization at scale part 1: how we save approx 150k USD a year by simply shutting things off
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Developing inside a virtual machine
Keeping my laptop clean by developing in a virtual machine
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Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab
Who knew figuring out the lab's occupancy would be so much work?!
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Hacking a Virtual Power Plant
I recently had solar panels and a battery storage system from GivEnergy installed at my house. A major selling point for me was that they have a local network API which can be used to monitor and…
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Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
Operational simplicity in aodrqew, balancing stability and agility to enhance reliability, reduce complexity, and focus on impactful innovation.
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Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)
First published 2016.
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Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service?
I recently went down a very deep rabbit hole to understand why, some months, Cloudflare was charging us 3x what we were expecting for their Cloudflare Images service. I’m posting this write-up because back then, a quick search didn’t turn anything up; and Cloudflare support has totally ghosted us for more than 8…
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Network Tunneling with QEMU
While investigating an incident, we detected uncommon malicious activity inside one of the systems. We ran an analysis on the artifacts, only to find that the adversary had deployed and launched the QEMU hardware emulator.
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Why I recommend Renovate over any other dependency update tools
Explaining why Renovate is going to be my solution to keeping up-to-date with dependencies and it's not likely to change any time soon.
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The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack
If you publicly host large data files on AWS S3 & pay for transfer costs, you may be vulnerable to a “Denial of Wallet” amplification…
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How to install Linux from a Windows installer
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Presumably for the same reason as me? I also don't know what that was.
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Trillium TPU Is GA
Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is now GA, delivering enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness for AI workloads.
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Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
Building the Inngest queue - Part I
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BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained
This article explains how BuildKit works in depth, why it's faster than Docker's previous build engine, and what it looks like under the hood.
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Deploying fiber in the home
Getting a fiber Internet connection to your home is a big deal! It’s probably the last physical connection you’ll ever need, due to the virtually unlimited bandwidth, stability, performance, and attainable speeds.
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Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal
An increasing number of self-hostable software meets a tool to make self-hosting trivial.
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Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting
My post on how I like to manage servers. I cover SSH, networking, log rotation, and server management basics.
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The problem with OpenTelemetry
I regularly complain about OpenTelemetry, so with an aim to be a less useless contributor, today I'm putting pen to paper. If you're an implementer, I ask you to read this and take away the personal bias you might have towards your work, and instead look objectively at the feedback being given.
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PostgreSQL Streaming Replication (WAL); What It Is and How to Configure One
What is Streaming replication in PostgreSQL?Streaming replication in PostgreSQL is an efficient method for maintaining a near real-time replica of a primary database on one or more standby servers.The primary server continuously sends data to replica
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A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes
Key concepts & much deserved YAML ranting
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Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
Filecoin Foundation successfully deploys IPFS in space. Discover the details of this groundbreaking achievement.
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How meta built the infrastructure for Threads
On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble te…
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How we built ngrok's data platform
At ngrok, we manage a ~100TiB, 500+ table data lake, managed by a very small team. Here's a look at how we built it and what unique challenges we solved.