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Bun 0.3
Massive reduction in memory usage, faster text encoding, improved Jest compatibility, file-system routing, automatic package installs, and a lot more
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Infrastructure & DevOps
The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 402 posts.
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FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi
How to install FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi, one step in building an Active Directory server with Samba and FreeBSD.
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Why I Enjoy PostgreSQL – Infrastructure Engineer's Perspective
Why I enjoy PostgreSQL - Infrastructure Engineer's Perspective
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Docker on MacOS is slow and how to fix it
Note 05/01/2025: Hello there, you can find an update version of this article here, with the latest findings, improvements and new tools. This is how a Docker container feels inside a macOS environment: lost at sea, far from the coast. With this article I will try to bring this poor container safely to the coast. TL;DR…
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Amazon, Verizon found using IPv4 240/4 addresses
In this article we use data from RIPE Atlas probes to investigate the usage of 240/4, a block of IPv4 addresses 'reserved for future use', formally known as Class E in the wild.
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Testing a Cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD Adapter on My ThinkPad T430
I got curious about an ExpressCard to NVMe M.2 NGFF adapter I saw on Reddit, so I got one to try out myself, ending up with a total of 4 SSD-s on my ThinkPad T430. Yes, four.
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Husky, Datadog's Third-Generation Event Store
Husky is an unbundled, distributed, schemaless, vectorized column store. Here’s how we built it—and why.
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What I wish someone would have told me about using RabbitMQ (2020)
RabbitMQ Crash Course for 2025
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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...
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How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado
A technical overview of Notado's migration to Fly.io
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Pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi
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
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Who Watches Watchmen? – Integrating Elixir Applications with Systemd
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.
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Zero downtime migrations
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 ...
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Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
Recently our development team had a small break in our feature delivery schedule. Technical leadership decided that this time would be…
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Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense
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?
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We are still early with the cloud
Software development still has a long way to go until it fully embraces the cloud
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Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping
In this guide, we show how you can build your own mobile proxy pool step by step. Mobile proxies offer improved reliability for web automation. This guide shows how to build your own mobile proxy infrastructure.
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Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances
AWS creates a market for spot instance pricing, but this market is inefficient as customers don’t consider all instance types available. Leveraging this mispricing can save even more than spot pricing already does.
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Nix on the Steam Deck
When I first started using Linux in 2006, I remember dreaming of a Linux Console. It wasn't so far fetched, the PlayStation 3 had just been released with OtherOS support which allowed users to install Linux (or BSD). Still, it seemed that a Linux-first console seemed like it would only ever be a dream.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022
Backblaze wants to be as transparent as possible with our customers about our business. Here’s what you need to know about our drives in Q1 2022.
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In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.
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Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
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…
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How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)
Why throw away your old Camera? In this guide we'll show you how simple it is to reuse your old Camera as a webcam using the NixOS linux distribution.