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Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext
The current state of systemd-sysext in Flatcar and the next steps
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 281 posts.
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Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance
Explore Tandem NonStop architecture principles and their relevance to high availability in software systems like Elixir, Gleam, and Erlang.
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Support for IPv6
You can now connect to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage via IPv6. Here's the story of how we deployed it and why that matters for you.
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Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries
I have recently released an open source tool called sotrace . It maps out the .so dependencies for a binary or library, and presents th...
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Libations: Tailscale on the Rocks
A deep dive into my home grown cocktail recipe app which speaks Tailscale natively using tsnet, and serves up delicious drinks direct to your tailnet. Libations is built with Go, Nix and Vanilla Framework.
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OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions
OpenTofu 1.7.0 is now available with full state encryption, dynamic provider-defined functions, the removed and loopable import blocks, new migration guides, and much more.
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"Out of Band" network management is not trivial
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?
Update 2024-05-21: Miles Ward has an update with more details in this X thread: UniSuper’s production Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) private cloud was automatically deleted one year after it’s creation due to a misconfiguration in how it was created. When it was created, there was a bug in the creation script which…
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Prometheus metrics saves us from painful kernel debugging (2022)
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When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it
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Quickwit 0.8: Indexing and Search at Petabyte Scale
Quickwit 0.8 brings indexing and search at an unprecedented scale, indexing at 1PB/day and searching through 50 PB is a reality.
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How the electricity markets respond to a nuclear trip
Looking at the data of how ERCOT maintains grid stability when a nuclear plant unexpectedly goes offline.
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Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge
Deploy JavaScript apps globally with bunny.net's Edge Scripting. Instant scalability, seamless GitHub integration, and blazing-fast performance at the edge.
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HBase Deprecation at Pinterest
Alberto Ordonez Pereira | Senior Staff Software Engineer; Lianghong Xu | Senior Manager, Engineering;
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Leveraging AI for efficient incident response
We’re sharing how we streamline system reliability investigations using a new AI-assisted root cause analysis system. The system uses a combination of heuristic-based retrieval and large language m…
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Serving a website from a Git repo without cloning it
It's fairly common to use git repositories as a vehicle for serving websites. The webdev pushes their changes to some branch of a publicly available git repository, and some web server somewhere serves the current tip of that branch as the website. Github Pages would be the most famous example of this.
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Podman Desktop 1.11: Light mode, Kubernetes features, macOS improvements
Podman Desktop 1.11 has been released!
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Build Initramfs Rootless
Let's create an hello world init program that the kernel can execute to show that everything works correctly:
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Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes
Ryan Schachte — infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems
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OpenMP 6.0
The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP language.
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Creating a low-cost EV charging station with Arduino
Creating a low-cost EV charging station with Arduino: see how a maker built a smart charger for electric vehicles.
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Powering the Mars Base
This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A grow…
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Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service
With additional Kubernetes mode!
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Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings
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Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta
Meta is currently operating many data centers with GPU training clusters across the world. Our data centers are the backbone of our operations, meticulously designed to support the scaling demands …
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Spinkube: Running WASM in Kubernetes
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.