Marc Olson has been part of the team shaping Elastic Block Store (EBS) for over a decade. In that time, he’s helped to drive the dramatic evolution of EBS from a simple block storage service relying on shared drives to a massive network storage system that delivers over 140 trillion daily operations.

In this post, Marc provides a fascinating insider’s perspective on the journey of EBS. He shares hard-won lessons in areas such as queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. Most importantly, he emphasizes how constraints can often breed creative solutions. It’s an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has evolved to meet the needs of our customers (and the pace at which they’re innovating).

Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software.

A UI for Docker Registries

The Prometheus Team has just announced Prometheus version 3.0 at PromCon, with an official blog post detailing all the exciting new changes and features. A very visible highlight of Prometheus 3.0 is its new web UI that is enabled by default.

I've worked on this complete UI rewrite over the last half year or so and am excited to finally see it in the hands of users. In this post, I'll take a closer look at my motivation for building the new UI and then explain what it brings in terms of features and stability caveats.

Secure, seamless access to databases and servers.

Whether you're developer, DevOps engineer, SysAdmin, QA or in any other technical role, you're surely familiar with cURL - the command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs (as described in docs).

Most of the time however, we all really only use curl for simple tasks, such downloading a file or checking if website is accessible, yet there's some much more curl can do!

And in this article we will go through exactly those cool examples and tricks to showcase why curl is awesome and underappreciated tool...

Explore an in-depth guide to database sharding: what it is, its types, how to select shard keys, and route queries for building scalable systems.

Failure is an expected state in production systems, and no predictable failure of either software or hardware components should result in a negative experience for users. The exact failure mode may vary, but certain remediation steps must be taken after detection. A common example is when an error occurs on a server, rendering it unfit for production workloads, and requiring action to recover.

When operating at Cloudflare’s scale, it is important to ensure that our platform is able to recover from faults seamlessly. It can be tempting to rely on the expertise of world-class engineers to remediate these faults, but this would be manual, repetitive, unlikely to produce enduring value, and not scaling. In one word: toil; not a viable solution at our scale and rate of growth.

In this post we discuss how we built the foundations to enable a more scalable future, and what problems it has immediately allowed us to solve.

CLI tool to automate docker image updates.

Hi there! Tired of big platforms playing monopoly? Providing Git hosting for your project, friends, company or community? Forgejo (/`for'd͡ʒe.jo`/ inspired by forĝejo – the Esperanto word for forge) has you covered with its intuitive interface, light and easy hosting and a lot of builtin functionality.

Forgejo was created in 2022 because we think that the project should be owned by an independent community. If you second that, then Forgejo is for you! Our promise: Independent Free/Libre Software forever!

OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.

S3oosh allows users to upload multiple files at once to S3 Buckets. It provides a drag-and-drop interface for users to easily upload files to a S3 Bucket. The component supports various file types and allows users to set maximum file count, maximum file size, and accepted file types.

Picking the right base image for your Node.js application can be challenging. Different variants of the official Docker node image vary x5 in size and x10 in the number of reported CVEs, but the smallest image is not always the best. There is also bitnami/node, which is similar but not identical to the "official" Docker image. And, of course, don't forget about the distroless options such as cgr.dev/chainguard/node and gcr.io/distroless/nodejs. So, which Node.js image should you use and when?

This library enables to use Amazon S3 as a git remote and LFS server.

Stateless cluster local OCI registry mirror.

Drasi is a data processing platform that simplifies detecting changes in data and taking immediate action. It is a comprehensive solution that provides built-in capabilities to track system logs and change feeds for specific events, evaluate them for relevance, and automatically initiate appropriate reactions.

Formbricks provides a free and open source surveying platform. Gather feedback at every point in the user journey with beautiful in-app, website, link and email surveys. Build on top of Formbricks or leverage prebuilt data analysis capabilities.

Gets you notified when new versions of your Docker containers are available and lets you react the way you want.