Best of 2019

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2019. 175 posts.

Infrastructure & DevOps
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Kubernetes 1.16

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha. Major ThemesCustom resourcesCRDs are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and…

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Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…

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AWS Fargate Deep Dive

AWS Fargate is a serverless technology which lets you run your containers in the cloud without having to worry about the operational overhead of managing the infrastructure. In this article, we talk about what Fargate is and how it works under the hood. We also try to compare it to other AWS Services like Lambda and…

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AWS Control Tower

Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up […]