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Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates would be trusted, even while our own ISRG Root X1…
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Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
If your company uses Kubernetes, you are likely expending energy on something that doesn't take you towards your mission.
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How an oil refinery works
Though wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still runs on petroleum, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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AWS mistakes to avoid
Since this year I’m working as an AWS Cloud Consultant where I see a lot of small to medium sized AWS deployments. Most of th...
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A faster heart for F-Droid
Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donation...
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So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
(Heads up — this article was published in October 2020. Much of the general discussion is still relevant, but many of these SoCs are getting quite long in the tooth, and some of the software issues mentioned here have been addressed)
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AWS Fargate – Run Containers Without Managing Infrastructure
Containers are a powerful way for developers to develop, package, and deploy their applications. At AWS we have over a hundred thousand active ECS clusters and hundreds of millions of new containers started each week. That’s 400+% customer growth since 2016. Container orchestration solutions, like Amazon Elastic…
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Networking on AWS (2018)
Disclaimer: I’m not a network engineer and never have been - a tame network engineer has been consulted to ensure factual and terminological accuracy. The following is an in-exhaustive run down of everything I’ve learnt from building and using network infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. If you find you have no…
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It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB.
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The Big DevOps Misunderstanding
When the term DevOps came up it was all about a simple idea:
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Issues with Cloudflare Images
Status: 5/9 fixed I’m a huge fan of the various Cloudflare offerings, and have been impressed time after time with the innovations and solutions offered by CF. This writeup therefore pains me, as I usually don’t have anything negative to say about CF, but after some months in production, and a severe lack of any…
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Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
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I am worried about Bun
Bun is excellent software. Anthropic owns it now, Bun sits under Claude Code, and Claude Code getting worse makes me worried Bun could follow the same enshittification path.
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New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app for Android which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as many bug fixes for...
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These feature…
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I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
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Death by a Thousand Microservices
The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills
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Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps
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Fastmail offers EU data region
Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.
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We're Leaving Kubernetes
We are moving away from Kubernetes for cloud development environments after 6 years of experience at scale. Learn about Gitpod Flex and our new approach to development infrastructure for developers.
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I looked through attacks in my access logs
I've been self-hosting for over a decade. It's freeing because I own my data, and do not depend on any platform other than my cloud host, which I can easily switch off. Self-hosting gives much insight into what it takes to run a cloud service. Anyone