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Just kinda weird to pivot into promoting your vibe coded alternative that has been on GitHub for less than 24 hours.
Re:SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:09AM (#48619146)
TLDR, not ready for prime time.

Sadly, probably still the best Cloudflare blog written in the last nine months.

Re:The AirPods Effect on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:15PM (#48593372)
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.
Re:Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @08:33AM (#45436933)
You might be interested in nginx's implementation

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html...

Re:Notch Lost over $21B on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:18PM (#44174848)
My biggest regret is now not making friends with Doc Brown.
Re:Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support? on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:21AM (#43831611)
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

We had the same thing happen with any email with 2f<domain> anywhere in the message body on Google workspace

The "2F" URL decodes to slash / and a third party registered our 2f<company>.com (probably for nefarious purposes)

That kicked on the automatic filtering on messages that had URL encoded links and started blocking them.

Eventually, we had to register 2fgoogle.com ourselves to escalate the issue.

I'd recommend VictoriaLogs and shipping to via Vector
Re:What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP? on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:56PM (#43175839)
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 with minimal latency/packetloss) it's not even worth turning HTTP/3 on

Re:MySQL at Uber on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:14AM (#43080430)
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.

Error logic around etcd/topo server is very shaky, edge cases can wedge cells/clusters into broken state.

Re:Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view on Saturday February 15, 2025 @03:11PM (#43061856)
Also love gnuplot, and and ministat for stats/graphs from the command line
Re:The practical (Unix) problems with .cache and its friends on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:28PM (#42984985)
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 operations problem, not a design problem.

Re:Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack on Thursday October 03, 2024 @09:00PM (#41736752)
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 validate the domain being used to route traffic is a registered customer domain. But the abuse report and even Slack pings have yet to affect the traffic. It’s incredibly frustrating because you’d expect a company like Cloudflare, which positions itself as a defender against DDoS and similar threats, to take action much more quickly when they’re part of the problem.

Re:K1 Buys MariaDB on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:11PM (#41507264)
For single instances, this seems very true.

For complex multi-member clusters Maria/MySQL are quite far ahead.

Re:Ngtop – Request analytics from the Nginx access logs on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @02:58AM (#41116951)
Found it much easier to just used structured logs and slice them with [angle grinder](https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @08:54AM (#40856169)
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 answer on why you might want to spend 40 some hours a week with us.

If you can't do that, (and it really just is all about the money) then that's just a precursor to a disaster or new future burn out.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024) on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @11:48PM (#40232501)
Those people are indeed hard to find. Individuals that write operators and/or know the internals vs just using kubectl and helm.
Re:Linux: Easy Keylogger with eBPF (2018) on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:55PM (#40092351)
Nice - I normally use [bash-readline](https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/bashreadlin...) when coworking/co-inhabiting a server or training someone.
Re:Reverse DNS IPv4 Map on Sunday March 24, 2024 @12:51AM (#39805230)
Appears some blocks near (but not in) RFC1918 space are missing?
Re:Tortoise: Shell-Shockingly-Good Kubernetes Autoscaling on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:51AM (#39777905)
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 the workload according to our preference.

Re:Tortoise: Shell-Shockingly-Good Kubernetes Autoscaling on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:48AM (#39777867)
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...

I believe this test is run several times and the data set fits in page cache.
Re:An Awk love story (2019) [video] on Monday February 19, 2024 @01:55PM (#39433301)
Sharing the love for awk as well :)

Aho's second edition of The AWK Programming Language dropped a few months ago is recommended if you want to know more about the language.

> Z-Wave is in some ways the better pick going forward

Z-Wave unfortunately is already dead. The legacy certification process, the higher cost chips, and the global frequency bifurcation.

Re:Plex raises $40M to expand and compete with tech giants on Saturday February 03, 2024 @10:47AM (#39241415)
> There is no proof that they're doing what you're claiming.

do you recall when Plex started ingesting your media history and then emailed all shared users in your library what you were watching?

Many Plex users were pretty embarrassed to be outed for soft porn to family members and colleagues.

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/180maoe/plex_cr...

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