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Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2022
Q3 2022 Drive Stats: Read the latest insights and check out the data.
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LocalStack 1.0
LocalStack 1.0 is generally available with 80+ AWS services, the AWS Server Framework, parity testing, reworked Cloud Pods, Extensions, and IAM enforcement.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the YAML
Something I miss after emigrating from the UK to the USA is the using the name of a yeast extract based spread as an adjective. To describe something as “marmite”
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Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices
The ultra-secure embedded Ubuntu introduces support for real-time compute in robotics and industrial applications. 15 June 2022: Canonical today announced that Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerised Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimised for IoT and edge devices, is now generally available for download from…
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The Lost Art of System Administration
I spent a good chunk of my adolescence learning Linux systems administration. I attribute some of my success as a software engineer to the scripting and systems knowledge I picked up while installing, maintaining, and...
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Event-driven access to my home after a run
I always run with my phone on me, so accessing my home afterward has been convenient since installing MyQ W-Fi connected garage doors several years ago. No need to remember to carry a separate house key anymore and getting into my house is (usually) an app launch away. It has worked great, until one day …
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Vercel Edge Middleware: Dynamic at the speed of static
Execute custom logic at the moment of request, pushing personalization to the edge with exceptional performance.
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Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers
Self-host map APIs on your own cloud account, serverlessly
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Migrating from SQLite to PostgreSQL
Product updates, comparisons, and deep dives on database change management, access control, and compliance from the Bytebase engineering team.
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Self-host your static assets (2019)
Why is it so much better to self-host your static assets?
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Using eBPF and predefined inspections to minimize “observability tax”
Learn how Coroot uses eBPF and predefined inspections to achieve fast, code-free monitoring with minimal observability overhead.
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Restic 0.13.0
For downloading the new release and to see a more detailed list of important changes, please head over to GitHub . If you already have restic (0.9.4 or later), you can use the self-update command to automatically download and verify the new release.
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Selfhosting on Localhost
As a software engineer with a bit of job-induced paranoia, I love the idea of escaping the claws of big tech via self-hosting. In recent years, a plethora of amazing free and open source projects have emerged, providing alternatives to everything from Dropbox and iTunes to Android Home. However, I don’t want to manage…
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Grep one-liners as CI tasks
Leveraging grep's exit status and output for simple code checks
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UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
The Morocco – UK Power Project, Xlinks’ most publicised venture, is designed to deliver 8% of Great Britain’s current electricity needs (3.6GW of clean, reliable power), which is enough for seven million homes.
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Block web scanners with ipset and iptables
Anybody who runs an internet-facing webserver has seen their fair share of spammy scanners in the logs. It varies server to server, but some of mine get up to 15,000 scans per day. Almost all of these are harmless network mappers, but they still annoy me. Many are compromised hosts or belong to hackers & organized…
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Deno’s July 13th incident update
Post-mortem report for the outage on July 13th and 14th 2022
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DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
DigitalOcean Functions is a fast, scalable, and cost-effective compute solution that enables you to build quickly, scale automatically, and save costs by removing the need to pay for idle resources.
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The Modern Observability Problem
The observability problem - Why is the system exhibiting this behaviour?
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LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained
How LocalStack's AWS Server Framework and snapshot testing framework keep its AWS emulation in parity with changes to AWS APIs.
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Supabase Storage v2: Image Resizing and Smart CDN
We're introducing new features for Supabase Storage: Image resizing and a Smart CDN.
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Tracing HTTP Requests with tcpflow
PagerDuty went off very early in the morning, and our hero cursed his bad luck and received the phone call. He made PagerDuty repeat the message twice, but couldn’t understand the message. He pressed the number to acknowledge the incident. He opened the MacBook and found the slack message from the PagerDuty bot more…
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An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts
“An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts” has moved to https://src-bin.com/substrate/blog/an-aws-account-just-for-getting-into-other-aws-accounts/ .
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Kubernetes StatefulSets are Broken
Kubernetes was not originally intended for stateful applications. Kubernetes StatefulSets are Kubernetes' answer to storage-centric workloads.
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How to make Docker images even smaller
Learn how to investigate and reduce the size of your container images.
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Building Password Purgatory with Cloudflare Pages and Workers
I have lots of little ideas for various pet projects, most of which go nowhere ( Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] being the exception), so I'm always looking for the fastest, cheapest way to get up and running. Last month as part of my blog post on How