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Notes on Google's Site Reliability Engineering Book
The book starts with a story about a time Margaret Hamilton brought her young daughter with her to NASA, back in the days of the Apollo program. During a simulation mission, her daughter caused the mission to crash by pressing some keys that caused a prelaunch program to run during the simulated mission. Hamilton…
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Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
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How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.
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AWS Application Load Balancer
We launched Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for AWS in the spring of 2009 (see New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch to see just how far AWS has come since then). Elastic Load Balancing has become a key architectural component for many AWS-powered applications. In…
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Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta
We’re excited to announce that the Node.js runtime on Google App Engine is going beta. Node.js makes it easy for developers to build performant web applications and mobile backends with JavaScript. App Engine provides an easy to use platform for developers to build, deploy, manage and automatically scale services on…
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GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
We are excited to announce our partnership with DigitalOcean, the world’s simplest cloud infrastructure provider.
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Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
What hardware we're considering purchasing now that we have to move GitLab.com to metal.
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Excessive load on NTP servers
Since last Tuesday some countries have seen an excessive number of queries to the NTP Pool. After much detective work on nanog (conclusion) and the #NTP IRC channel it was determined to be a buggy Snapchat app update.
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Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
Some months ago, Google launched their Alpha program for their upcoming CDN service. We kept a close eye to their development and in the meanwhile, in NEXT 2016 Google has already announced the Beta phase of their CDN. We already discussed how this new product will fit in the broad palette of content distribution…
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AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
I am fascinated by things that are simple on the surface and complex underneath! For example, consider the popular padlock icon that is used to signify that traffic to and from a web site is encrypted: How does the browser know that it should display the green padlock? Well, that’s quite the story! It all […]
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AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
Many AWS customers are running memory-intensive big data, caching, and analytics workloads and have been asking us for EC2 instances with ever-increasing amounts of memory. Last fall, I first told you about our plans for the new X1 instance type. Today, we are announcing availability of this instance type with the…
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YC Tech Stacks
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi
I'm increasingly of the view that both my time and my sanity are worth more and more as the years progress. Particularly in my independent life, it really can be that black and white - if I can't work, it costs me money. Plus, I want to be happy
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Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition
This is #1 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture. Welcome.Previous post (#0): Stack Overflow: A Technical DeconstructionNext post...
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Docker for Beginners
A hands-on Docker tutorial covering containers, Dockerfiles, Compose, multi-container apps, and deployment to AWS.
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GPUs for Google Cloud Platform
CPU-based machines in the cloud are terrific for general purpose computing, but certain tasks such as rendering or large-scale simulations are much faster on specialized processors. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) contain hundreds of times as many computational cores as CPUs and are great at accelerating risk…
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Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Docker for Mac Beta Review
I finally got access to the Docker For Mac beta. My initial impressions are extremely positive. With Docker packaged so well for end users…
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Amazon S3 and Glacier Price Reductions
Back in 2006, we launched S3 with a revolutionary pay-as-you-go pricing model, with an initial price of 15 cents per GB per month. Over the intervening decade, we reduced the price per GB by 80%, launched S3 in every AWS Region, and enhanced the original one-size-fits-all model with user-driven features such as web…
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Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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