or xfs Users, Take Care! Recently, we had a customer ask: Why do many files holding my data take up vastly more space than their size is? That question may sound weird to you, but it is for real, and

How I learnt the basics of Go (its good parts as well as a few quirks) by porting a medium-sized web backend from Python.

Many people hack together shell scripts quickly to do simple tasks, but these soon take on a life of their own. Unfortunately shell scripts are full of subtle effects which result in scripts failing in unusual ways. It’s possible to […]

Lessons learned running Kubernetes in production and fixing our noisy neighbor problem.

Observations and debugging problems in LoadBalancer services.

This is a consolidated overview of the InfluxDB architecture. Part one of three in this series describes the InfluxDB write path: how the database persists and organizes data being written to the database. There is a summary of the next two parts in th...

Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are…

Memory Management Types of Profiling Tools Matrix Analysis Steps Base Example ReadMemStats Pprof Trace Conclusion Note: I highly recommend also reading this official diagnostics documentation.
Memory Management Before we dive into the techniques and tools…

The simplest way to send your files around the world using IPFS. ✏️ 🗃 - FileNation/FileNation

The Apache CouchDB development community is proud to announce the immediate availability of versions 2.1.1 and 1.7.0. Both releases are security releases and fix multiple CRITICAL issues. Updates a…

One the biggest security news stories of 2017 was of a ransomware variant targeting improperly secured MongoDB instances. Here it is in a nutshell: some users of MongoDB accidentally left their databases exposed to the internet without any authentication.…

This is a guest post by a young and talented Portuguese exploiter, Federico Bento. He won this year’s Pwnie for Epic Achievement exploiting TIOCSTI ioctl.
Days ago he posted a video …

Out with Xen, in with 'core KVM technology' for new C5 instances and future VMs too

Like so many things in life, serverless is a spectrum with multiple dimensions along which the degree of each can vary

For the first time in a while, Intel has serious competition in the server market: Qualcomm and Cavium both have new server platforms based on the ARMv8 64-bit architecture.

Humans are great storytellers and even better story-listeners. We love to hear stories so much that when there aren't any available, we make them up on our own. From an early age, children grasp the idea of narrative. Even if they don't understand the forms…

Implementing a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline is not trivial, and the introduction of container technology to the development stack can introduce additional…