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Last year we launched new AWS Regions in Canada, India, Korea, the UK (London), and the United States (Ohio), and announced that new regions are coming to France (Paris) and China (Ningxia). Today, I am happy to be able to tell you that we are planning to open up an AWS Region in Stockholm, Sweden […]
Discover Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for secure, scalable containerized app deployment and management with fast delivery on managed Kubernetes clusters.
I’ve written a bit about Nix and I still face moments where foundational aspects of the package system confounds and surprises me.
Adaptation, Algorithms and Ambience
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
Storage V3 with lots of new features including resumable uploads, more image transformationsm a Next.js image loader and more.
Put your pocket-sized silicon to work as the world's smallest API-driven cloud - to run automation scripts, scheduled tasks, functions and to host web sites
A lot of application use systems like Kubernetes for their deployment. In my humble opinion it is often overkill as system, that offers most of the stuff such thing provide, is already present in your OS. In this article I will try to present how to utilise the most popular system supervisor from Elixir applications.
We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else. The only way we were able to get the pricing that low was by signing a four-year contract. That contract expires this summer, June 30, so that's our departure date for the final leg of our cloud…
A recent trend in our industry is the software architecture move from a monolith app to microservices, often with a related blog post explaining how much better everything is after. A recent blog post by neo-bank Monzo explains that they have reached the crazy amount of 1500 microservices (a ratio of ~10 microservices…
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Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
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…
We moved our warehouse product off DuckDB and DuckLake onto our own flavor of Trino and a new open table format, HogLake. Here's what broke at scale and why.
Why Go’s stability and simple deployments is a good fit for a serverless environment.
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Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
Craig's year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.
As a backend developer at a mobile app company, a common task was migrating a database schema.This could be to improve query performance, change column ...
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.
Recently our development team had a small break in our feature delivery schedule. Technical leadership decided that this time would be…
How Virtual Machines were used to deploy services. What old problems containers solve and what new problems create. How Kubernetes used containers to recreate Virtual Machines in a better way?
No self-signing headaches, no TLS erros.
Microsoft’s recent licensing change for Windows Server is a great modern-day example of why so many businesses hated Microsoft two decades ago. Is this an aberration, or are they back to their old tricks?
