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Confusing or misunderstood topics in systems programming

Intro to threads and async runtimes, discussing the differences between native and virtual threads. Native threads managed by the OS, while virtual threads are managed by a library or runtime. Runtimes provide scheduling for virtual threads, offering an abstraction for working with asynchronous task..

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Terminal colours are tricky

Terminal color configuration often leads to poor contrast, like the common "blue on black" issue, due to the inconsistent mapping of ANSI colors (16 primary colors) without standard hex values across terminal emulators; tweaking settings via terminal emulator configurations or shell scripts can miti..

Terminal colours are tricky
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What Is Testcontainers, and Why Should You Care?

Testcontainers revolutionizes integration testing by using throwaway Docker containers to manage test environments with ease, offering automatic cleanup, preconfigured modules for diverse technologies like databases and message brokers, and enabling scalable cloud execution with Testcontainers Cloud..

What Is Testcontainers, and Why Should You Care?
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Mirantis Lens Update Provides Users with More Intuitive Kubernetes Management

Mirantis Lens's update revolutionizes Kubernetes management with a redesigned UI for enhanced clarity, multitasking capabilities through tabbed views, real-time metrics, and streamlined AWS EKS integration, reinforcing Lens's status as the world's most popular Kubernetes IDE for its over one million..

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Amazon ElastiCache's new support for Valkey 7.2

Amazon ElastiCache's new support for Valkey 7.2 offers a compelling alternative to Redis OSS with better pricing—up to33% cheaperfor serverless setups and 20% for node-based clusters—while maintaining AWS-level security, availability, and scalability across regions and ensuring seamless API compatib..

Amazon ElastiCache's new support for Valkey 7.2
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How we built ngrok's data platform

At ngrok, a solo engineer manages a data lake, embracing a unique approach where data engineering blends deeply with backend work, leveraging open-source tools like Airbyte, Flink, and dbt, alongside AWS and Clickhouse, facilitating a highly collaborative environment within a Go monorepo, tackling s..

How we built ngrok's data platform
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Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps

In a monumental escalation of attack magnitude, Cloudflare autonomously mitigated arecord-smashing 3.8 terabits per secondhyper-volumetric DDoS attack lasting 65 seconds, surpassing Microsoft's previous record, with threat actors exploiting global infected devices, particularly Asus routers and Mikr..

Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps
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GitHub Actions: A Comparison between Composite Actions and Reusable Workflow

Github Actions offer Composite Actions for publishing and external use and Reusable Workflows for internal flexibility, both aiming to enforce the DRY principle by minimizing duplicated CI/CD script configuration in software delivery...

GitHub Actions: A Comparison between Composite Actions and Reusable Workflow
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It's Critical To Resolve the DevOps Tax on Central Teams

DevOps culture accelerates production but burdens developers and central teams with managing diverse cloud services, pushing companies toward solutions like Terraform modules to mitigate complexity, yet Netflix's innovations like ConsoleME, Repokid, Spinnaker, and an S3 Slackbot demonstrate how auto..

It's Critical To Resolve the DevOps Tax on Central Teams
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How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?

HTTP servers, such as Go's, handle Content-Length via chunked transfer encoding when responses exceed buffer size, using hexadecimal to indicate chunks, enabling efficient data transfer without storing entire responses in memory—a clever mechanism prevalent since HTTP 1.1 and replaced by streaming i..

How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?
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