Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 224 posts.

Infrastructure & DevOps
43

Azure Container Instances

Containers have fundamentally changed the way developers develop their applications, the way applications are deployed, and the way system administrators manage their environments. Containers offer a broadly accepted and open standard, enabling simple portability between platforms and between clouds. Today, I am…

49

AWS Network Load Balancer

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) has been an important part of AWS since 2009, when it was launched as part of a three-pack that also included Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch. Since that time we have added many features, and also introduced the Application Load Balancer. Designed to support application-level…

54

NetBSD fully reproducible builds

I have been working on and off for almost a year trying to get reproducible builds (the same source tree always builds an identical cdrom) on NetBSD. I did not think at the time it would take as long or be so difficult, so I did not keep a log of all the changes I needed to make. I was also not the only one working on…

57

Vagrant 2.0

We're announcing HashiCorp Vagrant 2.0. Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. Vagrant 2.0 supports provisioning development environments on VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, AWS, GCP, and more. It can virtualize Windows, macOS, and a dozen other new operating systems. Vagrant 2.0…