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Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in AWS us-east-1 caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and us-east-1. In this post, we explain what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

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New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support

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…

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You Don't Need the Cloud

Thymer is a beautiful editor to write, outline and plan at the speed of thought. Real-time multiplayer, malleable with plugins and themes, open to your agents through plain files. End-to-end encrypted, on web, desktop and mobile.

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Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final

Goodbye Ubuntu, Goodbye Snaps I missed two goals in the World Cup Finals because of this. It’s not the first time Snap has been a problem, but it’s most definitely the last straw. What happened? I was happily watching the second half of the Fifa World Cup Final, using “ShowMax” – a South African paid … Continue…