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Building a dependable hosting stack using Hetzner’s servers
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 4,375 posts.
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The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core
A deep dive into the infrastructure of .NET Core. Challenges, changes and the future.
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Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes
or: how you can deploy services to Kubernetes that require long periods of draining. #🌈 🌈 🌈 #If you want to jump directly to the technical solution, check out the project repo. Below is a short story about how we got to this solution.
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OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10
A list of OWASP's Non-Human Identities Top 10 risks for 2025
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Kubernetes at Box: Microservices at Maximum Velocity
“Box is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Its platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI.”
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Rebuilding Our Infrastructure with Docker, ECS, and Terraform
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)
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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You can serve static data over HTTP
This will be short. I need to let some steam off and flush this thing out of my mind because it's already hanging around for too long. The story goes like this: we're prototyping small tool for whatever and we're at the point where there is a visible need to store some (most likely) static data. Oh, the thing is in…
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GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow
GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is terribly slow. It will make 35% of your visitors go away.
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Hetzner is working on LLM Inference
Hetzner has launched an experimental LLM inference API. I tested its Qwen model—and have a few guesses about where the product could go next.
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Podman and Buildah for Docker Users
What docker users need to know to move from Docker to Podman and Buildah and the advantages of doing so. Developers/operators can easily move to Podman, do all the fun tasks that they are familiar
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There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux
Updated October 2025 to reflect the growth in binaries from 12 to <50.
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Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems
The microservices honeymoon period is over. Uber is refactoring thousands of microservices into a more manageable solution [1]; Kelsey Hightower is predicting monoliths are the future [2]; and even Sam Newman is declaring that microservices should never be the default choice, but rather a last resort [3]. What’s going…
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Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day
Discover Centrifuge—a system designed for high-performance, exact data delivery. Learn how it handles massive event volumes, ensuring no data loss. Join Segment's innovation.
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Cloud Traffic
I recently watched Build an enterprise-grade service mesh with Traffic Director , featuring Stewart Reichling and Kelsey Hightower of GCP, and of course Google Cloud’s Traffic Director . Coming at this with a brain steeped in 5½ years of AWS technology and culture was surprising in ways that seem worth sharing.
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Improving NGINX Performance with Kernel TLS and SSL_sendfile
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Why Tarsnap won't use DynamoDB
As I've blogged about before, the Tarsnap server code synthesizes a log-structured filesystem on top of Amazon S3 . As a result of this design, for each block of data stored on Tarsnap, the server code needs to keep track of two key-value pairs: First, to map a 64-bit machine number and a 256-bit block ID to a 64-bit…
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Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%
Effective immediately B2 download pricing is only $.02/GB. B2 cloud storage pricing is now 1/4th the price of Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure.
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When Every Network is 192.168.1.x
Solving the conflicting subnet problem with overlay addressing, WireGuard, and 1:1 NAT.
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MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective
In this blog series, I hope to summarize what Kafka and MQTT are and how they can both fit into an IoT architecture.
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Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud
The post analyzes how major cloud platforms are faring under pressure and usage spikes caused by COVID-19 during March 2020.