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TLDR, not ready for prime time. Sadly, probably still the best Cloudflare blog written in the last nine months.

Come to the Midwest. Over friendly. Zero air pods effect.

That is true at a certain scale, but there is also a reason why large organizations like Cloudflare ran nginx on their edge over any other product.

You might be interested in nginx's implementation https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html...

My biggest regret is now not making friends with Doc Brown.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. We had the same thing happen with any email with 2f anywhere in the message body on Google workspace The "2F" UR…

I'd recommend VictoriaLogs and shipping to via Vector

Safari on IOS still has a ton lingering HTTP/3 / QUIC bugs. I think it is to the point that if your user base doesn't warrant it, (i.e. you are targeting well connected devices wit…

Its great. We use it. I'm not sure I would call it even close to battle hardened. They are still many lurking footguns and bugs. Try running it with > 250k tables. Falls down hard.…

Also love gnuplot, and and ministat for stats/graphs from the command line

Also pretty easy to implement disk quotas on a modern system. Heck, you could even display a warning or the top directories consuming space upon login. Not a great take - this is a…

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-do...

Meanwhile, it’s going on two weeks that a large volumetric amplification attack has been coming from CF itself against systems I manage. Ironically, their abuse report does validat…

For single instances, this seems very true. For complex multi-member clusters Maria/MySQL are quite far ahead.

Found it much easier to just used structured logs and slice them with [angle grinder]( https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder )

Chatted with these folks a few times and they are all lovely people and would be super fun to work with.

We all know its all about the money. I want to know that you care enough to have done a modicum of research on your new potential employer. And in turn, that you can give a short a…

Those people are indeed hard to find. Individuals that write operators and/or know the internals vs just using kubectl and helm.

Nice - I normally use [bash-readline]( https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/bashreadlin... ) when coworking/co-inhabiting a server or training someone.

https://www.folklore.org/Discovered_Loops.html?sort=date?sor...

Appears some blocks near (but not in) RFC1918 space are missing?

We have a similar in house utility that looks at the P90 resource utilization (via prom) for last 48hrs and adjusts requests to this level. This allows our scheduler to place/pack …

Most just utilize out of the box macro resources available in HPA. For more advanced use cases there is keda - https://keda.sh/

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, 2nd Edition (2020) https://www.brendangregg.com/systems-performance-2nd-edition...