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Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018
This review looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for 98,184 hard drives with a focus on consumer vs. enterprise drive reliability.
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Jenkins pipelines as YAML
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
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Postgres as the Substructure for IoT and the Next Wave of Computing
IoT applications generate torrents of data. Learn how - and why - to use TimescaleDB to scale PostgreSQL by 20x and harness its power for IoT.
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For Static Sites, There’s No Excuse Not to Use a CDN
TinaCMS is the successor to Forestry.io, now maintained by SSW. Migrate your Forestry site to Tina with our step-by-step guide and enjoy enhanced visual editing features.
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My Own Private CDN
Yet another edition of Why Would You Ever Want To Do That
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Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
Compare real-world RAM consumption of AppImage and Flatpak packages on low-memory Linux hardware. See how each format handles dependencies and…
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Do we really need a new BGP?
Guest post: BGP gets a bad rap from some but maybe the problem is with people not the protocol.
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AMD EPYC Performance Testing with systemd
With packet.net making bare metal servers available to cloud users, Percona CTO Vadim Tkachenko enjoys the opportunity to carry out some performance benchmarks with EPYC CPU, and experiences some surprising results running Percona Server for MySQL under systemd.
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Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
Exploring container security: Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
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Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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AWS Service Operator for Kubernetes Now Available
NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details…
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Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy
This blog post describes techniques that utilize ACLs, maps, and stick tables.
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Postmortem: Azure DevOps (VSTS) Outage of 4 Sep 2018
Today, we’re happy to introduce Azure DevOps service status portal which helps with real time insights into active service events and provides further details o...
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Behind the Scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends GCP Back End
By Samir Hammoudi, Gaming Technical Specialist, Google Cloud Dragon Ball Legends , a new mobile game from Bandai Namco Entertainment (BNE)...
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Building blocks of Amazon ECS
So, what’s Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)? ECS is a managed service for running containers on AWS, designed to make it easy to run applications in the cloud without worrying about configuring the environment for your code to run in. Using ECS, you can easily deploy containers to host a simple website or run…
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Travis merges private and open source repositories into one platform
We are excited to announce that starting May 2nd, 2018, you will be able to test and deploy your open source and private projects on travis-ci.com. We’re proud to support open source and we believe…
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Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, but You Don’t Have to Be at Google to Use It
Tell me if this sounds familiar: any connection from inside the corporate network is trusted and any connection from the outside is not. This is the security strategy used by most enterprises today. The problem is that security is breached, the attacker has access to everything.
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Gravwell Community Edition: A Splunk Alternative Built with Go
Initial Gravwell testers did a lot of home monitoring with the software and wanted to get licenses for their friends and colleagues but Gravwell was built for larger enterprises and our pricing model isn't set up for home use. All of that changes with the Community Edition...
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Briar and Bramble: A Vision for Decentralized Infrastructure
What if we could build secure systems that didn't depend on central servers or even Internet access to let people collaborate? What would a system like this mean for political organizing, disaster relief, or even civic infrastructure? The Briar app and the Bramble framework are an attempt to find out.
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Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept
I work at a very ‘locked-down’ enterprise, where direct access to Docker is effectively verboten.
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AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda Supports Python 3.7
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Introduction to HAProxy ACLs
A practical guide to HAProxy ACLs. Learn the syntax and follow step-by-step examples to block traffic, redirect users, choose backends, and enhance security.
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An EPYC NixOS Build Farm
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.