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Why "What Happened First?" Is One of the Hardest Questions in Large-Scale Systems

Logical clocks trackevent orderin distributed systems—no need for synced wall clocks. Each node keeps a counter. On every event: tick it. On every message: tack on your counter. When you receive one? Merge and bump. This flips the script. Instead of chasing global time, distributed systems lean int..

Why "What Happened First?" Is One of the Hardest Questions in Large-Scale Systems
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The Hidden AWS Cost Traps No One Warns You About (and How I Avoid Them)

Calling outfive sneaky AWS cost traps—the kind that creep in through overlooked defaults and quiet misconfigs, then blow up your bill while no one's watching...

The Hidden AWS Cost Traps No One Warns You About (and How I Avoid Them)
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Easy will always trump simple

Rich Hickey’s classic ā€œSimple Made Easyā€ talk is making the rounds again—as a mirror held up to dev culture under pressure. The punchline: we keep picking solutions that areeasy but tangled, instead ofsimple and sane. The essay draws a sharp line between that habit and a concept from biology: exapt..

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Subverting code integrity checks to locally backdoor Signal, 1Password, Slack, and more

A fresh CVE (2025-55305) just put Electron apps in the hot seat. The bug? Chromium-based apps fail to treatV8 heap snapshot filesas potential attack vectors. That crack lets unsigned JavaScript slip past code signing and run inside heavyweight targets like Slack, 1Password, and Signal. The heart of..

Subverting code integrity checks to locally backdoor Signal, 1Password, Slack, and more
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24 Best Command Line Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux

A fresh look at Linux monitoring tools shows the classics still hold—but the visual crowd’s moving in. Old-school command-liners liketopandvmstatremain go-to’s for quick reads. But picks likeNetdata,btop, andMonitbring dashboards, colors, and actual UX. Tools likeiftop,Nmon, andSuricatastretch deep..

24 Best Command Line Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux
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Pooling Connections with RDS Proxy at Klaviyo

Klaviyo replaced ProxySQL on EC2 and moved toAWS RDS Proxy. Why? Less overhead. Simpler failovers. Smarter pooling. RDS Proxy handlesmultiplexing, packing thousands of client queries into way fewer DB connections. IAM access and built-in failover routing sweeten the deal...

Pooling Connections with RDS Proxy at Klaviyo
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Paused Kubernetes project finds path forward

TheExternal Secrets Operator (ESO)is moving again. After hitting pause from maintainer burnout, it’s back under CNCF incubation—with a rebooted structure in place. New governance, clear contributor paths, and support tracks for CI, core dev, and testing are all in. But don’t expect fresh releases ju..

Paused Kubernetes project finds path forward
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Scaling Prometheus: Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly

Flipkart ditched its creakyStatsD + InfluxDBstack for afederated Prometheussetup—built to handle 80M+ time-series metrics without choking. The move leaned intopull-based collection,PromQL's firepower, andhierarchical federationfor smarter aggregation and long-haul queries. Why it matters:Prometheus..

Scaling Prometheus: Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly
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Why I Ditched Docker for Podman (And You Should Too)

Older container technologies like Docker have been prone to security vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2019-5736 and CVE-2022-0847, which allowed for potential host system compromise. Podman changes the game by eliminating the need for a persistent background service like the Docker daemon, enhancing sec..

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Dynamic Kubernetes request right sizing with Kubecost

Kubecost’s Amazon EKS add-on now handlesautomated container request right-sizing. That means teams can tweak CPU and memory requests based on actual usage—once or on a recurring schedule. Optimization profiles are customizable, and resizing can be baked into cluster setup using Helm. Yes, that mean..

Dynamic Kubernetes request right sizing with Kubecost