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GCE vs. AWS in 2016: Why You Shouldn't Use Amazon
Foreword This story relates my experience at a typical web startup. We are running hundreds of instances on AWS, and we’ve been doing so for some time, growing at a sustained pace. Our full o…
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How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN
This post is the first in a series detailing the evolution of network software at Fastly. We’re unique amongst our peers in that from inception, we’ve always viewed networking as an integral part of our product rather than a cost center. We rarely share what we do with the wider networking community however, in part…
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Ansible 2.1 Released, with Network Automation, Containers
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Ansible 2.1, the latest version of the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework. Ansible 2.1 introduces support for network automation, which helps further…
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Azure Container Service is now generally available
I’m excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Container Service; the simplest, most open and flexible way to run your container applications in the cloud.
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455 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olympic Games Rio 2016
TL;DR Motivated by a friend, we’ll share bits of our experience during the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Before starting, I would like to clarify that Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content …
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How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack
From startups to enterprises, despite material increases in efficiency and the price to performance ratio of the compute, network and storage resources we all use, infrastructure continues to come at substantial cost. It can also be a real risk driver; each implementation choice affects future scalability, service…
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Windows Server Support Comes to Kubernetes
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 Extending on the theme of giving users choice, Kubernetes 1.5 release includes the support for Windows Servers. WIth more than 80% of enterprise apps running Java on Linux or .Net on Windows, Kubernetes is previewing…
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AWS Snowmobile – Move Exabytes of Data to the Cloud in Weeks
Moving large amounts of on-premises data to the cloud as part of a migration effort is still more challenging than it should be! Even with high-end connections, moving petabytes or exabytes of film vaults, financial records, satellite imagery, or scientific data across the Internet can take years or decades. On the…
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Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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AWS Database Migration Service
Do you currently store relational data in an on-premises Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database? Would you like to move it to the AWS cloud with virtually no downtime so that you can take advantage of the scale, operational efficiency, and the multitude of data storage options that are available to…
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How ReadMe Went from SaaS to On-Premises in Less Than One Week
Discover the tech stack used by ReadMe.io. Explore 6 tools across 2 categories.
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In the Works – AWS Region in Canada
We continue to announce, build, and launch additional AWS regions as our customer base becomes larger, more diverse, and accustomed to running many different types of workloads in the cloud. Hello, Canada I am happy to announce that we will be opening an AWS region in Montreal, Québec, Canada in the coming year. This…
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Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs
I have written about the benefits of GPU-based computing in the past, most recently as part of the launch of the P2 instances with up to 16 GPUs. As I have noted in the past, GPUs offer incredible power and scale, along with the potential to simultaneously decrease your time-to-results and your overall compute costs…
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Sandstorm now supports RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Arch, and more
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Configuring a High Interactivity SSH HoneyPot
Due to continued visitation resulting in 404s to this article it has been restored from an older, and lost, version of this blog from content at – https://web.archive.org/web/20170811222717/https://www.robertputt.co.uk/2016/11/28/learn-from-your-attackers-ssh-honeypot/ , it may be incomplete, for example images being…
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FreeBSD Jails the hard way
There are many great options for managing FreeBSD Jails. iocage, warden and ez-jail aim to streamline the process and make it quick an easy to get going. But sometimes the tools built right into the OS are overlooked.
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Jenkins 2.0 is here
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
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InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next
Today were excited to announce the release of the open source time series database, InfluxDB 1.0 and our commercial offering, InfluxEnterprise.
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