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How uv got so fast
uv’s speed comes from engineering decisions, not just Rust. Static metadata, dropping legacy formats, and standards that didn’t exist five years ago.
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Infrastructure & DevOps
The most popular blog posts about infrastructure & devops on Hacker News. 321 posts.
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Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean. Digital Society is a not-for-profit cooperative helping you get your projects off the ground and realise the value of your data.
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I ditched Docker for Podman
Podman offers better security, uses fewer resources, and integrates seamlessly with Linux and Kubernetes, making it a superior Docker alternative
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We were wrong about GPUs
Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.
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Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the successor to WHOIS, which is being sunsetted on 28 January 2025.
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Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Discover how native ACME protocol support simplifies SSL/TLS certificate management by enabling direct configuration within NGINX.
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Tailscale is pretty useful
It's probably old news for most, but I've recently started using Tailscale and wanted to share my experience with it.
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Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions pricing update: Discover lower runner rates (up to 39% off) following a major re-architecture for faster, more reliable CI/CD.
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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.
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AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
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The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
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Go ahead, self-host Postgres
Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.
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Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
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Self-hosting my photos with Immich
For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set…
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
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My Self-Hosting Setup
A blog on technology, Star Wars, and other random thoughts. Plus some half way decent photography!
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Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
Date: 2025-01-26 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00016-wayland-input-latency.md
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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles
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Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?
This site is hosted with Cloudflare Pages and I'm really happy with it. When I explored how to create a site like mine in 2025, I wondered why there's an abundance of good, free hosting these days. Years ago, you'd have to pay for hosting,…
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Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
Please, just stop.
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I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning.
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So you want to build your own data center
When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage…
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Moving away from US cloud services
Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.
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Pi-hole v6
We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP , reducing the installation footprint and boosting performance. The new API also offers server-side pagination for the query log, ensuring a faster and more responsive interface.
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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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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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Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
Why I self-host my websites, newsletter, and homelab—and the satisfaction that comes from building and using your own digital tools.