3+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1436+ words) Temps and Openship are open-source, self-hostable deployment platforms with git deployments, preview environments, automatic HTTPS, managed databases, backups, and transactional email. The important difference is not whether either platform can ship a container. It is how each platform is built,…...

10+ hour, 48+ min ago   (251+ words) S3 launched in March 2006 — before the iPhone, before Airbnb, before "the cloud" was a household term. A busy 10TB bucket: ~$530/month (storage + requests + egress). What does S3 stand for? Simple Storage Service. Despite the name, there's nothing particularly "simple" about the full feature…...

1+ day, 32+ min ago   (136+ words) If you've run Kubernetes for more than a day, you've seen this: This trips up an astonishing number of teams, so let's clear it up for good. A quick related gotcha: data expects Base64, but stringData expects plain text and Kubernetes…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1031+ words) A developer is building an AI application that needs to run a GPU-backed inference job. Then the selected region runs out of capacity. The developer adds another region. The second region does not offer the same instance type, so the…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1687+ words) No alerts were firing. No customers were complaining. CPU looked normal. Memory looked normal. The applications were serving traffic. AWS just started charging more. The first cost anomaly pointed to EKS extended support. A few days later, another one appeared…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (702+ words) Google Cloud published a security-team overview this week outlining how it detects and contains abuse across its shared infrastructure, and for engineers running pipelines on GCP the operational takeaway is the escalation ladder: throttle first, isolate the identity, suspend the…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (642+ words) Every month, the same shock. The cloud bill arrives, and it's higher than expected. I used to blame the provider, then my team, then the phase of the moon. But after years of cleaning up messes, I realized the problem…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (326+ words) Multi-cloud setups make this worse through data gravity. Moving large datasets between providers to chase a marginally cheaper compute rate rarely pays off once egress is factored in. The more durable strategy is to pin data to the provider that…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (272+ words) Cost per run is the wrong number. Cost per resolved task, where it actually goes, and the four levers that move it without making the agent worse. Tagged with typescript, agents, ai, node....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1782+ words) TL;DR by reader profile: The tradeoff is straightforward: Netdata Cloud sells you remote access, retention and permissions as a subscription, and a parent node buys you the same three things with your own hardware, your own tunnel and your…...