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iampims··on Docker without Docker
This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
iampims··on Docker without Docker
> But in the end what you buy is the ability to run a docker container

That’s not entirely correct. You don’t run a docker container. The filesystem is extracted from an docker image and mounted in a VM (firecracker).

Big difference that requires the cleverness described in the blog post.

iampims··on An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real Problem
Micro services often solve _an organizational scaling_ problem, and are less frequently deployed for _performance scaling_.
iampims··on Baserow.io – Self-hosted Airtable alternative
The documentation is excellent. It’s so rare to see such well written documentation with just the right learning curve.
iampims··on Go 1.16 Release Notes
the package `netutil` has a LimitListener function which wraps the given listener and accepts at most N simultaneous connections.
iampims··on Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine
> Warning: mysql_connect(): User yingling_sandbox already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.
iampims··on Why I Built Litestream
I don’t think the comparison is fair with regard to scaling. Imagine this situation: you’d like to have 2 instances of your application running on two different machines, and you’d like to rollout updates with no downtime. It’s trivial with MySQL/Postgres, but it’s tricky with sqlite.

A lot of solutions don’t take into consideration “day 2” operations: mostly around no downtime upgrades.

iampims··on Show HN: Inlets 3.0 RC1
“If you need encryption upgrade to PRO plan for $$$” is appalling.
iampims··on I work on code search at GitHub – what needs to improve?
Exclude forks. It kills me to see pages and pages of the same code and not being able to find other repositories with code matching my query.
iampims··on The RustyHermit Unikernel
I find Unikernels fascinating, but I’m curious as to who is running unikernel based applications in production?
iampims··on Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
Not OP but most public cloud need stronger isolation than what Docker provides. GKE uses gVisor, AWS uses Firecracker now. When they started, lambda code was scheduled on a different EC2 instance per customer. VM isolation is just so much stronger. Firecracker hopes to make launching VMs as quick as launching containers while retaining the great isolation benefits of a VM.
iampims··on Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
I’d love to know more about this as well. That’s the part usually nobody talks about.
iampims··on IPFS Support in Brave
Is it possible to configure the http gateway?
iampims··on WireGuard Bounce Server Setup
https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared would be one I didn’t see on your list.
iampims··on Cloudquery: Easily ask questions about your cloud infrastructure
Unsolicited feedback: your homepage could use a few more screenshots for us to see what vantage really is.
iampims··on Common Expression Language
Good news. Starlark-go finally supports protocol buffers, so at least the output of your script gets some type checking.
iampims··on New Relic to open-source Pixie’s eBPF observability platform
Pixie agreed to be acquired by NewRelic
iampims··on How Payment Transaction Processing Works
Luckily, this is exactly what privacy.com offers.
iampims··on A better Kubernetes from the ground up
If you like systemd AND kubernetes API, this might be of interest to you: https://github.com/miekg/vks
iampims··on Someone attacked our company
ApiGateway -> kinesis stream -> lambda consumes batch of N page views. You keep the serverless approach you like, and it will cost you a fraction of what you currently spend.
iampims··on Someone attacked our company
Being DDoS’d is expensive. That’s one thing that most cloud providers make difficult to protect against: how to prevent a random attacker from depleting my bank account.
iampims··on Simulating RAM in Clojure
It’s fun to follow along, even if like me, you’re not too familiar with Clojure.
iampims··on Why not use GraphQL?
It’s up to the graphql server implementation to resolve queries however it sees fit. In many cases this type of query would be implemented with a cursor, so not all users would be returned at once.
iampims··on Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
They’re a French/EU company, that alone can be an advantage for some businesses.
iampims··on Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the number of data centers that AWS offers. Good luck using OVH anywhere but France/US east coast.
iampims··on Piipcam – 1080P IP Camera on a Raspberry Pi Zero W
The pi configuration is at: https://github.com/sepfy/piipcam/tree/master/bsp/meta-piipca...

You’d have then to compile the source.

iampims··on Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
pps is packets per second. So 1Gpps would be 1 billion packets per second.
iampims··on Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
This is chilling. Democracy in HK is forever gone.
iampims··on Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers
And given that Cloudflare is a big proponent of encrypted SNI, I wonder how this will play into it :)
iampims··on Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
Slack announced they were going to switch.
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