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In Praise of Alpine and APK
Since the change of year, I’ve been using Alpine Linux on my main computing device (a new desktop PC that I assembled in December). These are some notes on in, some niceties and caveats.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 4,375 posts.
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Anti-patterns when building container images
This is a list of recurring anti-patterns that I see when I help folks with their container build pipelines, and suggestions to avoid them or refactor them into something better.
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Leaving the Cloud
Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.
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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
A blog, mostly about programming
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Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…
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Simple SSH Security
Simple SSH Security Within a couple of minutes you can improve your SSH security significantly.
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Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
Investment to accelerate zero trust builds, SBOM, security tooling, and developer experience Boulder, CO - August 26, 2024—The FreeBSD Foundation, dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting the community, announced that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest…
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My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build
For over 10 years now, I run two self-built NAS (Network Storage) devices which serve media (currently via Jellyfin) and run daily backups of all my PCs and servers. In this article, I describe my goals, which hardware I picked for my new build (and why) and how I set it up.
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Amazon Common Software for Devices
Apply today to join the Amazon Common Software (ACS) for devices preview! We use ACS in Amazon devices, including the Echo Dot (3rd generation) and the Amazon Smart Oven, and now you can use it to accelerate integration of Amazon Device SDKs on your devices to bring them to market more quickly and cost-effectively.
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GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container
Help lock down your containers with these Kubernetes Engine features and guidance
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301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (2012)
Best practice has it that when you move content around for whatever good reasons you have that you should do it using a 301 redirect.
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CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner
We’re excited to announce that CloudFlare has just been named a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner. So what does this mean?
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Terraform Gotchas and How We Work Around Them
Heap’s infrastructure runs on AWS, and we manage it using Terraform. This post is a collection of tips and gotchas we’ve picked up along the way.
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135 Terabytes for $12,000
Sobriety time. Here are all the reasons why you SHOULD NOT roll your own backblaze storage pod.
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Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
In this article we will learn how to deploy Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes. We will first do everything manually with separate YAMLs and then later with Helm. Our k8s environment will run i…
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SST: Container Support
SST now natively supports building containerized applications.
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A robots.txt Problem
To prevent a part of our web application from being scanned by search engines and other web crawlers, we add a robots.txt like User-agen...
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PostgreSQL High Availability Solutions – Part 1: Jepsen Test and Patroni
Note: code used in this article can be found on the Github repo jepsen-postgres-ha .
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gRPC: From service definition to wire format
A comprehensive deep dive into the gRPC protocol, from service definitions and streaming models to the low-level HTTP/2 framing and wire format.
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OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL
Fully managed PostgreSQL from the creators of TimescaleDB. 99.9% uptime SLA, 10,000+ IOPS, columnar compression up to 95%, and built-in search. Try it free.
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The Ultimate Docker Cheat Sheet
TLDR; Get your Docker Cheat Sheet as PDF or as an image . To follow this article, make sure your development machine has Docker installed . In this blog post, we write our own Dockerfiles, learn how to create images, and finally run them as container. The complete source code is available on GitHub .
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Linux Kernel Tuning for C500k
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Linux VM without VM software – User Mode Linux
Quick demonstration of using User Mode Linux (UML) to run a Linux VM inside Linux's userspace, without additional VM software or even root permissions
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Don't let event-driven architecture buzzwords fool you
I see a lot of new terms like Command-Event, Event-Based Compute, etc., presented around Event-Driven Architecture. Let me clear that up because there are no such things…
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I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node
A practical deep dive into Tailscale exit nodes: route changes, traceroute evidence, DERP fallback, trust boundaries, and why this model can be free.
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