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Let’s Encrypt will enter Public Beta on December 3, 2015. Once we’ve entered Public Beta our systems will be open to anyone who would like to request a certificate. There will no longer be a requirement to sign up and wait for an invitation. Our Limited Beta started on September 12, 2015. We’ve issued over 11,000…
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Tales of a Software Craftsman
In April of 2016 Etsy launched Pattern, a new product that gives Etsy sellers the ability to create their own hosted e-commerce...
Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us via the ACME API. This service ended on June 4, 2025. The decision to end the service is the result of the following factors: Over the past 10 years more and more of our…
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IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW If you take a look at the list of IPv4 allocated /8 blocks there's one interesting block in there: 51.0.0.0/8 ...
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Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic , and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message…
Get the details on Storage Pod 6.0 and learn how to build your own data storage server.
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
We take a close look at the hard drive failure rates from 68,813 hard drives that are used in the Backblaze data center.
Now in public preview, Linux arm64 hosted runners are available for free in public repositories. Following the release of arm64 larger hosted runners in June, this offering now extends to…
Learn how to use Apache Kafka as a buffer between OpenTelemetry Collectors for a scalable multi-collector pipeline, with YAML configuration examples.
Grafana is an open source visualization and dashboarding technology that allows you to explore your metrics, logs, and traces no matter where the data is.
With a Raspberry Pi or other modern single-board computers, you can make very simple toys. I started with the hello world of interactive apps: the soundboard. But even then, I was too ambitious. The soundpad Since the main target was kids. I wanted a simple, screen-less toy that would teach …
We announced the t2.nano instances earlier this year. Like their larger siblings (t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium, and t2.large), these instances provide a baseline level of processing power, along with the ability to save up unused cycles and use them when the need arises. As I noted in my earlier post (New T2.Large…
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
As interesting chat on Twitter today reminded me that not everyone is probably aware that we’re seeing a concerted attempt to dislodge the general purpose operating system from our servers.
Learn how to create & manage and use Quadlets with Podman Desktop
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.
CoreOS was founded in 2013 with the mission to improve the security and reliability of the internet.
VMware Engine is a fully managed offering that lets enterprises run existing virtual machines on Google Cloud infrastructure.
Executing a full rewrite of the Dropbox sync engine was pretty daunting. (Read more about our goals and how we made the decision in our previous post here .) Doing so meant taking the engine that powers Dropbox on hundreds of millions of user’s machines and swapping it out mid-flight. To pull this off, we knew we…
Recently I wrote about moving the platform behind The New York Times Crossword to the Google Cloud Platform and mentioned we were able to…
In this deep-dive, we identified and worked through sporadic latency issues with services running on Kubernetes in our environment.
Flow is an important part of software development. The ability to achieve flow during daily work makes software development a uniquely enjoyable profession
