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AddIt took the spacecraft nearly five decades to get there. It takes light a day.
A series of unfortunate events.
Backblaze's 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.
A Python Library for Generating PDFs and Images from HTML, powered by PlutoBook - plutoprint/plutoprint
Stuck at home during this tumultous period? You can try out these open source data science projects and add shine to your data science resume.
New Linux tracer analyzes production performance problems and troubleshoots software.
Trench — Open-Source Analytics Infrastructure. A single production-ready Docker image built on ClickHouse, Kafka, and Node.js for tracking events, page views. Easily build product analytics dashboards, LLM RAGs, observability platforms, or any other analytics product. - FrigadeHQ/trench
View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.
How I spent two decades tracking down the creators of a 1987 USENET game and learned modern packaging tools in the process. The Discovery: A Digital Time Capsule from 1987 Picture this: October 26, 1987. The Berlin Wall still stands, the World Wide Web is just text, and software is distributed through USENET newsgroups in […]
Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files
The latest tips, tutorials, new, and release info about Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash...
Enterprise software giant Red Hat is now being extorted by the ShinyHunters gang, with samples of stolen customer engagement reports (CERs)Â leaked on their data leak site.
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certificates issued, the ACME protocol we helped create and standardize is integrated throughout the server ecosystem, and we’ve become a household name among system administrators. We’re closing in on protecting one billion web sites.
The task came with a sense of helplessness. We knew what "great" looked like, but it was impractical to build all of that functionality.
Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's Idiocracy. It's got electrolytes.
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a compressed 21st century.
A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.
Why the moat is the system, not the model