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Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore…
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AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Achieve up to 34% better price/performance with AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processor
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Container networking is simple (2020)
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.
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Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide…
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System separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021
On 8 January 2021 at 14:05 CET the synchronous area of Continental Europe was separated into two parts due to outages of several transmission network elements in a very short time. ENTSO-E has published the first information on the event already on 8 January 2021, followed by an update with geographical view and time…
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Making Websites Small
Practical notes on smaller websites: reduce page weight, optimize images, and simplify frontend dependencies.
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Ubuntu 21.10
14 October 2021: Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10 – the most productive environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices and cloud. “As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to…
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Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog
There’s no shortage of posts like “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems, or Do I Really Need Kubernetes?, which tend to argue that unless you’re orchestrating 1000 containers, you’re good without Kubernetes. Also, I thought this tweet was hilarious: So… Hi, I’m the guy using Kubernetes for my blog and small…
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How we built a serverless SQL database
CockroachDB serverless is the first truly scalable serverless SQL database. Learn how it works and how a serverless sql database can relieve the operational burden of developers.
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AWS free tier data transfer expansion
The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum. Our intent is to make […]
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The Dunant subsea cable
The Dunant submarine cable system, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service.
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Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack
One of the best ways to find ways to improve performance, we’ve found, is to work closely with our customers. We love shared troubleshooting sessions with their own engineering teams to find and eliminate bottlenecks.
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MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Last Mile Redis
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
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The Next Backblaze Storage Pod
Each month we build 60 or so new Storage Pods, which require 60 CPUs, 720 SATA cables, 120 power supplies, and so on.
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Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
When Martin Fowler's post about microservices came out in 2014, the teams where I worked were already building service-oriented architectures. That post and the subsequent hype made their way into almost every software team in the world. The "Netflix OSS stack" was the coolest thing back then, allowing engineers…
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Learning containers from the bottom up
What is a Container? Container vs. VM? Docker vs. Kubernetes. How to organize the learning efficiently?
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The Container Throttling Problem
This is an excerpt from an internal document David Mackey and I co-authored in April 2019. The document is excerpted since much of the original doc was about comparing possible approaches to increasing efficency at Twitter, which is mostly information that's meaningless outside of Twitter without a large amount of…
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We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud
GitLab is building Heroku for production apps in hyper clouds, integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.
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RabbitMQ Streams Overview
RabbitMQ 3.9 introduces a new type of data structure: streams. Streams unlock a set of use cases that could have been tedious to implement with "traditional" queues. Let's discover in this post how streams expand the capabilities of RabbitMQ.
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We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure
This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what clusters are all about. In this post we will take a peek under the hood of our hosting infrastructure and walk through how we made hosting work in a multi-cluster world. Hosting overview If you didn't…
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Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure
Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?
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Making an old USB printer support Apple AirPrint using a Raspberry Pi
There are longer tutorials on how to connect a USB printer to a Raspberry Pi and make it accessible via AirPrint but here's the minimal one ...
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Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
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Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
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Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you'll flash back to the same meeting you had about this a few jobs ago. A decision was made
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Terraform 0.15 General Availability
Terraform 0.15 delivers a wide set of stable interfaces that practitioners, partners, and organizations can rely on.
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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