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Docker Official Images Are Moving to Alpine Linux
Discover why Docker is transitioning to Alpine Linux. Learn about the benefits of smaller, faster, and more secure containers and why you should switch your Docker images to Alpine.
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LXD 2.0: Introduction to LXD
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$15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean
As you might already know, I’m into containers , static configuration and self-service infrastructures . Naturally, I love Kubernetes , which I consider the most promising cluster scheduler around.
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Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage
Benchmarking throughput and latency of Amazon AWS Simple Storage Service (S3), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and Microsoft Azure Storage object storage services
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Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server
A month or two ago, I decided to remove Varnish from my site and replace it with Nginx's built-in caching system . I was already using Nginx to proxy to my Python sites, so getting rid of Varnish meant one less thing to fiddle with. I spent a few days reading up on how to configure Nginx's cache and overhauling the…
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From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation
Software - shaken, not stirred
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Cache-Control: immutable
About one year ago our friends at Facebook brought an interesting issue to the IETF HTTP Working Group - a lot (20%!) of their transaction...
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Backing up 18 years in 8 hours
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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An AWS Region is coming to France
Today we announce our plans to open a new AWS Region with 3 Availability Zones in France! The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.
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The End of the General Purpose Operating System
As interesting chat on Twitter today reminded me that not everyone is probably aware that we’re seeing a concerted attempt to dislodge the general purpose operating system from our servers.
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Hitler Uses Docker, Annotated
If you haven’t seen it, this is a very accurate and smart Downfall satire on Docker’s ecosystem, technology, and culture. It’s so good that I thought it would be instructive to an…
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Ansible vs. Chef (2015)
I wrote an earlier post about evaluating Ansible as an alternative to Chef. So after spending many years with Chef, I’ve found that Ansible is a lot easier to manage with startups. It’s easier to train developers, it’s easier to manage inventory and orchestration, and it works reasonably well on the scale of thousands…
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Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
On March 14, 2016 it has been 10 years since the launch of Amazon S3, the first AWS service. Here are some lessons learned in those 10 years
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Why We Chose Kubernetes
A couple of months ago I set out to investigate some orchestration tools for Docker containers. I.e. something that would help us schedule Docker containers onto nodes in a cluster and make sure that our services stays up in case of various failures. But let’s start at the beginning, why would we need this in the…
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Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition
This is #2 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#1): Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 EditionNext post (#3...
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Who's on call?
Implementation of an on-call policy requires answering precisely these questions: who is responsible for on-call duties for an application/service, and how is that responsibility defined? More succinctly, who owns on-call?
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Reflections on NixOS
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s Reflections On NixOS (2016-01-24), with archive and current documentation links.
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DNS: Basic Concepts (2013)
Dig through the DNS and learn how and why it all works.