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AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
Bitbucket Pipelines Beta: continuous delivery inside Bitbucket
Bitbucket Cloud is introducing Pipelines to let your team build, test, and deploy from Bitbucket. It is built right within Bitbucket, giving you end-to-end visibility from coding to deployment. With Bitbucket Pipelines there's no CI server to setup, user management to configure, or repositories to synchronize. Just…
Tarsnap outage post-mortem
When the Tarsnap EC2 instance came back online about an hour later, I found that the abrupt loss of power had resulted in filesystem corruption. As I explained in a blog post in December 2008, Tarsnap stores all user data in Amazon S3, but keeps metadata cached in EC2 . While I could not see any evidence that the…
The simplicity of single-file Golang deployments
Deploy Go apps as single static binaries with systemd. No Docker, no npm, zero-downtime via socket activation. Modern complexity is often unnecessary.
Kubernetes is hard
Recently, 37signals unveiled mrsk , a tool developed internally to ease with deployments of their services and an accompanying blog post which sparked a lengthy discussion on Hacker News .
Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster
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.
When deployments are easy, code becomes simpler
You bump into DORA in the wild a lot.
The AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
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 support for multi-cloud is generally available
Anthos for AWS is now GA, and can manage legacy workloads
AWS Cost Saving Recommendations
Today Vantage announces the launch of automated cost savings recommendations for all users with connected AWS accounts. Vantage will now automatically profile AWS account...
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?!
PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
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.
Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA
Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GAIn a previous blog - Containerd Brings More Container Runtime Options for Kubernetes, we introduced the alpha version of the Kubernetes containerd integration. With another 6 months of development, the integration with containerd is now generally available! You can now use…
Etcd v3: increased scale and new APIs
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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…
What I wish someone would have told me about using RabbitMQ (2020)
RabbitMQ Crash Course for 2025
How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS
📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own single-user...
AWS Graviton2
In November of last year, AWS announced the first ARM-based AWS instance type ( AWS Designed Processor: Graviton ). For me this was a very big deal because I’ve been talking about ARM based servers for more than a decade, believing that massive client volumes fund the R&D stream that feeds most server-side innovation…
Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)
Operational simplicity in aodrqew, balancing stability and agility to enhance reliability, reduce complexity, and focus on impactful innovation.
How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado
A technical overview of Notado's migration to Fly.io
Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)
First published 2016.
Logs were our lifeblood, now they're our liability
What happens when we collect too much data?