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How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second
Discover how Amazon Search combines technology and culture to empower its builder teams, ensuring platform resilience through Chaos Engineering.
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The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 4,375 posts.
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You can run a DNS server (2025)
In case you were wondering whether this would mean... writing zone files with some arcane syntax that BIND 9 is apparently famous of, I hereby present the main point of this post a recommendation for which DNS server to choose.
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Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale
Cron scripts are responsible for critical Slack functionality. They ensure reminders execute on time, email notifications are sent, and databases are cleaned up, among other things. Over the years, both the number of cron scripts and the amount of data these scripts process have increased. While generally these cron…
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Ansible 2.1 Released, with Network Automation, Containers
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Ansible 2.1, the latest version of the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework. Ansible 2.1 introduces support for network automation, which helps further…
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Introducing Azure DevOps
Today we are announcing Azure DevOps. Working with our customers and developers around the world, it’s clear DevOps has become increasingly critical to a team’s success.
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Extracting SSH Private Keys from Windows 10 ssh-agent
The newest Windows 10 update includes OpenSSH utilities, including ssh-agent. Here’s how to extract unencrypted saved private keys from the registry
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Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta
Cloud TPU Pods are now available in beta, helping you train models faster and at lower cost in the cloud.
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A Foolish Consistency: Consul at Fly.io
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Finding Kafka’s throughput limit in Dropbox infrastructure
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy
In this post, we explore how the OpenTelemetry project has carried out its vision for vendor neutrality in the observability space.
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WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home
I recently migrated my self-hosted services from a VPS (virtual private server) at a remote data center to a physical server at home. This change was motivated by wanting to be in control of the hardware and network where said services run, while trying to keep things as simple as possible. What follows is a…
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Marelle: logic programming for devops
In the past, walking the uneasy borderline of academia, I used to managed compute servers for my research group. New hardware was a rare godsend, configuring it by hand was natural. At 99designs, I’ve been privy to the opposite approach: machines should be disposable. This requires the entire setup of a new machine to…
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HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
Consul now provides secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.
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Djangy is shutting down
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Designing Our Serverless Engine: From Kubernetes to Nomad, Firecracker, and Kuma
We decided to build our own serverless engine, one that would not be limited by existing implementations. The first version of Koyeb was built on top of Kubernetes and allowed us to quickly build a working cloud platform. After a few months of operating with this version, we decided to move user workloads from…
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Faster, cheaper, and better: A story of breaking a monolith
On May 21st 2019, we broke search service out of vehicle-service. It was faster, cheaper, and better!
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Azure Container Service is now generally available
I’m excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Container Service; the simplest, most open and flexible way to run your container applications in the cloud.
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We check our node_modules folder into source control
On every team at every company I've been at prior to my current role, the advice was simple: don't check your node_modules folder into your version control system (which I'll refer to as “Git” for the rest of this article…). This seemed like solid advice for multiple reasons:
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The Future of Kubernetes
Kubernetes is ubiquitous in container orchestration, and its popularity has yet to weaken. This does, however, not mean that evolution in the container orchestration space is at a stand-still.
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We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
A long day of debugging led to a better solution: Signed URLs.
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Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io
Why we migrated OpenStatus' backend from Vercel to Fly.io using Hono and Bun — the challenges, performance gains, and lessons from the migration.
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Terraform is not the golden hammer
The Kubernetes control plane for humans and AI agents, on your own infrastructure, cloud or on-premise.
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Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown
Last week, the server farm of our LMU Student Council had a major downtime over almost five days. As part of the administrator team there, I’d like to publish this post mortem to share our experiences and lessons learned to avoid situations like this in the future.