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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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Infrastructure & DevOps
The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 4,374 posts.
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Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot
After reading a report yesterday saying that Rackspace cloud servers were a better deal than Amazon's, I decided to check it out today.
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How when AWS was down, we were not
Nothing can have an unlimited uptime. But even when AWS and other hyperscalers are having incidents, we've created an architecture that is resilient to those outages. Here's how we do it for Authress.
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Servers for an Accelerated Future
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.
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Deterministic simulation testing for our entire SaaS
How we leverage Antithesis to deterministically simulate our entire SaaS platform and verify its correctness, all the way from signup to running entire Kafka workloads.
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Talk write-up: How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers
The technical and organisational decisions behind building a Kubernetes-based platform serving 1500 engineers across Adevinta’s marketplace portfolio.
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Snaps are an anti-pattern on Ubuntu
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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Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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NixOS is making me less afraid
Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it . That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a year ago I didn’t have any NixOS servers.
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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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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Resize or consolidate your free instances before they're terminated.
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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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eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation
This blog shares the results of our performance tests creating OpenTelemetry traces with eBPF-based automatic instrumentation vs traditional instrumentation
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Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Patch OpenSSL on November 1 to avoid “critical” security vulnerability
The GlobalSign blog is the top resource to see what's trending in public key infrastructure (PKI), SSL/TSL, digital signing solutions, cybersecurity & more!
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The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
Learn more about the Docker+Wasm Technical Preview that enables all developers to quickly & easily build applications that target Wasm runtimes.
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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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How I Reduced My DB Server Load by 80%
Database load can be a silent performance killer. I’ve been optimizing the query performance of a web app I run designed to get people involved in open sourc...
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Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux
Today we "relaunched" ublue-os/bluefin as projectbluefin.io. This is a beta until Spring 2024. Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything but we're too lazy to maintain anything. So we
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What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage
I heard multiple times that AWS scans public GitHub repositories for AWS credentials and informs its users of the leaked credentials.
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CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)
Learn how to reduce response times for both CloudFront and Cloudflare.
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Continental Europe successfully synced with Ukraine and Moldova power systems
Following an urgent request by Ukrenergo and Moldova for emergency synchronisation, the TSOs of Continental Europe agreed to start on 16 March 2022 the trial synchronisation of the Continental European Power System with the power systems of Ukraine and Moldova. This acceleration of the synchronisation project ongoing…
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Linux Container Internals
This post was the basis for a joint event with the grokking engineering community in Saigon.
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Preliminary Post Incident Review
Read the preliminary post incident report regarding the CrowdStrike Falcon content update affecting Windows hosts.