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1. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay 2024-10-26

   tags: feed, network/http, network/http/header, personal-knowledge/blog, storage/cache, web/syndication

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   Test feed:

   • feed reader score project
   • A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
   • Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
   • So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
   • The feed reader score service is now online

   RFCs:

   • RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 - If-Modified-Since
   • RFC 7232 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests - Entity Tag (ETag)
   • RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics

   Related:

   • Bret Simmons - NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
   • John Brayton - Feed Polling for Unread Cloud
   • Jeff Kaufman - Looking at RSS User-Agents
   • Chris Siebenmann - The case of the very old If-Modified-Since HTTP header
   • ETag and HTTP caching
   • HTTP Conditional Requests Explained
   • Caching - What takes precedence: the ETag or Last-Modified HTTP header?
2. Swift on Server 2024-06-12

   tags: cloud/aws, linux/container/docker, network/grpc, network/http, network/http/openapi, programming/swift

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   • swift-server
   • Packaging Applications for Deployment
   • swift-server/swift-openapi-lambda
   • swift-server/swift-aws-lambda-runtime
   • swift-server/swift-aws-lambda-events
   • grpc/grpc-swift
3. Kestra - Orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows 2024-06-09

   tags: data/workflow, programming/java, programming/javascript

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   • kestra-io/kestra
   • Show HN: Kestra - Open-Source Airflow Alternative
   • How Leroy Merlin managed their cloud data pipelines with Kestra
4. InfluxDB Tech Tips — Optimizing Flux Performance 2024-06-01

   tags: observability/time-series/influxdb

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   • Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux
   • Top 5 Hurdles for Intermediate Flux Users and Resources for Optimizing Flux
   • Optimize Flux queries
   • Sort and limit data with Flux
5. TypeSpec - A language for defining cloud service APIs and shapes 2024-04-05

   tags: documentation, network/grpc, network/http, programming/api/rest, programming/json, programming/typescript, protocol-buffers

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   • microsoft/typespec
6. Cloud Study Network - Free Certifications 2024-04-03

   tags: cloud, course, database, knowledge, learn, network

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7. AWS Access Key Format 2024-02-28

   tags: cloud/aws, programming/go, programming/python, security, security/credentials, security/token

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   • AWS Security Credentials Formats
   • A short note on AWS KEY ID
   • Research Uncovers AWS Account Numbers Hidden in Access Keys
   • TruffleHog Now Detects AWS Canaries without setting them off
8. Warp10 - a modular platform to collect, store and analyze IoT sensor data 2023-02-19

   tags: internet-of-things, observability/time-series, programming/java

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   • https://www.warp10.io/content/03_Documentation/00_Overview
   • https://www.warp10.io/content/03_Documentation/04_WarpScript
   • https://www.clever-cloud.com/doc/administrate/metrics/warp10/
   • https://senx.io/cases-studies/clevercloud
   • https://github.com/senx/warp10-platform
   • https://github.com/ovh/erlenmeyer
9. (A few) Ops Lessons We All Learn The Hard Way 2023-02-18

   tags: cloud, network/dns, programming/shell, sysadmin

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   28. Blocking TCP port 53 traffic leads to very strange failures. Don't.
   29. The source you're looking at is not the code running in production.
   30. "Prod" is just another name for "staging".

10. NucliaDB - a cloud-native database for unstructured data and vector, text, paragraphs and relations indexing 2022-11-19

    tags: database/nosql, natural-language-processing, network/grpc, programming/python, programming/rust, protocol-buffers, search-engine

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    • https://github.com/nuclia/nucliadb
    • https://nuclia.com/building-nuclia/first-release/
    • https://2022.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks/nucliadb-oss-cloud-native-database-for-unstructured-data
    • https://gist.github.com/bloodbare/8381bfd0b11d94f2e8592b1101e695b5
    • https://github.com/nuclia/demos/
11. Parti - Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image 2022-07-02

    tags: generation, google, image, machine-learning, machine-learning/tensorflow, text

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    • https://imagen.research.google/
    • https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/vector-quantized-image-modeling-with.html
    • https://github.com/tensorflow/lingvo
    • https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/12/general-and-scalable-parallelization.html
    • https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/tpus/google-showcases-cloud-tpu-v4-pods-for-large-model-training
12. DeWitt Clause, or Can You Benchmark %DATABASE% and Get Away With It - Cube Blog 2022-06-05

    tags: database, performance, performance/benchmark

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    • Benchmarking Database Systems - A Systematic Approach
    • http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2021/11/dewitt-clause-vs-public-cloud.html
13. Cloud Hypervisor - Run Cloud Virtual Machines Securely and Efficiently 2022-01-24

    tags: intel, linux, microsoft, programming/rust, virtualization/kvm

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    • https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor
    • https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundation-to-host-the-cloud-hypervisor-project-creating-a-performant-lightweight-virtual-machine-monitor-for-modern-cloud-workloads/
14. sccache - ccache with cloud storage 2021-10-11

    tags: compiler, compiler/cache, mozilla, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/rust, storage/cache

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    • https://blog.mozilla.org/ted/2016/11/21/sccache-mozillas-distributed-compiler-cache-now-written-in-rust/
15. Terraform code quality - CloudSkiff 2021-08-21

    tags: cloud, configuration-management/terraform, infrastructure/automation, security

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    • https://github.com/tfutils
    • https://github.com/terraform-linters
    • https://terraform-compliance.com/
    • https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec
16. Kafka, Pulsar & RabbitMQ 2021-08-21

    tags: cloud, distributed-system/cluster, message-broker/kafka, message-broker/rabbitmq, microservice, network

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    Articles by Eran Stiller:

    • RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)
    • RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 2)

    Article and StackOverflow response by Lovisa Johansson from CloudAMQP, seem slightly biased towards RabbitMQ:

    • SO: When to use RabbitMQ over Kafka?
    • When to use RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka

    Benchmarks by Confluent.io (Kafka creator and Cloud Provider), seem heavily biased towards Kafka:

    • Kafka vs. Pulsar vs. RabbitMQ: Performance, Architecture, and Features Compared
    • Benchmarking Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, and RabbitMQ: Which is the Fastest?
17. Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU EC2 Instance | talawah.io 2021-05-23

    tags: cloud/aws, linux, linux/kernel, linux/kernel/ebpf, network/http, performance, programming/c

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    • https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data/
    • https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/10/11/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-receiving-data-illustrated/
    • https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/06/monitoring-tuning-linux-networking-stack-sending-data/
    • http://www.brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition-book.html
18. Smithy - A language for defining services and SDKs 2021-05-18

    tags: cloud/aws, programming/api, programming/code-generation, programming/java

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    • https://github.com/awslabs/smithy
    • https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/1.0/guides/index.html
19. cli53 - Command line tool for Amazon Route 53 2021-04-09

    tags: cloud/aws, command-line, network/dns

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20. Open Distro for Elasticsearch | Open Distro 2020-12-20

    tags: cloud, cloud/aws, machine-learning, observability/elastic/elasticsearch, observability/logging, observability/tracing, programming/java, security/authentication, security/authorization

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    • https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch
    • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/
    • https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/blog/releases/2020/12/announcing-trace-analytics/
    • https://logz.io/blog/open-distro-for-elasticsearch/