Hacker News with Generative AI: Cloud Computing

So you want to build your own data center (railway.com)
Since the beginning, Railway’s compute has been built on top of Google Cloud Platform. The platform supported Railway's initial journey, but it has caused a multitude of problems that have posed an existential risk to our business. More importantly, building on a hyperscaler prevents us from delivering the best possible platform to our customers.
Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Startups, Software Development
194 points by dban 5 hours ago | 83 comments
Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day (twitter.com)
Firebase, Cloud Computing, Billing, Surprises, Cost
110 points by plainOldText 1 day ago | 154 comments
AWS Management Console supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts (amazon.com)
Today, AWS announces multi-session support, which enables AWS customers to access multiple AWS accounts simultaneously in the AWS Console.
AWS, Cloud Computing, Security, User Interface, Software
7 points by dbaupp 1 day ago | 0 comments
Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine (nextplatform.com)
Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
Virtualization, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Acquisitions
113 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 67 comments
Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian (kumio.org)
The BananaPi M71 2 aka ArmSoM-Sige73 has attractive specs for use as an efficient but capable device for small-scale server deployment. As it’s performant enough to be interesting for real-world mixed workloads with some margin, it makes sense to consider it as a KVM hypervisor. Very relevant for setting up a small private cloud (雲立て or “kumotate”).
Server Deployment, Debian, KVM, Cloud Computing, Arm
82 points by kumiokun 2 days ago | 30 comments
Show HN: Anyshift.io – Terraform "Superplan" (anyshift.io)
Terraform, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Software
34 points by fasten 2 days ago | 41 comments
Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub (marimo.io)
Our online playground lets you create and share marimo notebooks for free, without creating an account.
WebAssembly, Python, Notebooks, GitHub, Cloud Computing
202 points by mscolnick 3 days ago | 27 comments
Show HN: Simple Docker Hosting (sliplane.io)
With Sliplane, shipping containers becomes incredibly easy and affordable. Our "Pay-per-Server" model enables you to host unlimited containers on each server for one fixed price.
Docker, Hosting, Cloud Computing, Software, SaaS
63 points by jonas_scholz 4 days ago | 62 comments
Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform (theregister.com)
Broadcom has lost another large customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source system based on the KVM hypervisor.
Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, VMware, KVM
272 points by xbmcuser 5 days ago | 101 comments
The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience (surfingcomplexity.blog)
Today’s public incident writeup comes courtesy of Brendan Humphries, the CTO of Canva. Like so many other incidents that came before, this is another tale of saturation, where the failure mode involves overload. There’s a lot of great detail in Humpries’s write-up, and I recommend you read it directly in addition to this post.
Software, Cloud Computing, Resilience, Incident Analysis
171 points by mooreds 5 days ago | 48 comments
How VPS work behind the scene (youtube.com)
VPS, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Technology, Web Development
11 points by devarifhossain 5 days ago | 0 comments
Pluralsight terminating "A Cloud Guru lifetime course access" (bsky.app)
Online Learning, Cloud Computing, Business
3 points by healsdata 7 days ago | 0 comments
Why aren't we all serverless yet? (varoa.net)
The median product engineer should reason about applications as composites of high-level, functional Lego blocks where technical low-level details are invisible.
Serverless Computing, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing
48 points by srvaroa 9 days ago | 133 comments
Ask HN: Who is accountable for cloud costs in your org? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Who is accountable for cloud costs in your org?
Cloud Computing, Finance, Management, Business
9 points by devashish86 9 days ago | 19 comments
Cloud AI for Video Games Is Dead on Arrival, On-Device Is the Future (atelico.studio)
Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Video Games
16 points by maiybe 9 days ago | 12 comments
Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud (dmarcchecker.app)
In our study on the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records of the top 1M websites, we were surprised to uncover more than 1,700 public DKIM keys that were shorter than 1,024 bits in length.
Security, Cryptography, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity
798 points by awulf 10 days ago | 406 comments
Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaling powered by an OpenTelemetry-native tool (dash0.com)
This blog post shows how to use Dash0 as the source of truth to automatically scale applications running on Kubernetes.
Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Monitoring
33 points by mmanciop 10 days ago | 6 comments
Preventing conflicts in authoritative DNS config using formal verification (cloudflare.com)
Over the last year, Cloudflare has begun formally verifying the correctness of our internal DNS addressing behavior — the logic that determines which IP address a DNS query receives when it hits our authoritative nameserver.
DNS, Formal Verification, Security, Networking, Cloud Computing
64 points by rscho 10 days ago | 3 comments
How we saved millions on AWS (forter.com)
In early 2022, as the world was emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation surged to multi-decade highs, prompting central banks to raise interest rates.
Cloud Computing, AWS, Cost Optimization, Business
44 points by omervk 11 days ago | 8 comments
Azure Space (microsoft.com)
An interactive exploration of the infrastructure and power of the Azure cloud in space
Azure, Space, Cloud Computing, Microsoft
9 points by geox 11 days ago | 0 comments
2025 Internet Predictions with John Graham-Cumming (cloudflare.tv)
Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming for the final episode of "This Week in Net" in 2024, broadcasting from a rainy Lisbon, Portugal. The conversation reflects on Cloudflare's achievements throughout the year, including significant developments in Workers platform, AI capabilities, and hardware innovations.
Internet Predictions, Cloud Computing, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Predictions
3 points by emot 11 days ago | 0 comments
Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code (infoq.com)
Building applications with serverless technology is not all about implementing functions for every purpose.
Serverless Computing, Software Development, Programming, Cloud Computing
5 points by gemanor 13 days ago | 1 comments
MoonBit: First Look at New Language Through Building WASM Back End (vigoo.dev)
MoonBit, a new programming language has been open sourced a few weeks ago - see this blog post. MoonBit is an exciting modern programming language that natively supports WebAssembly, including the component model - this makes it a perfect fit for writing applications for Golem Cloud.
Programming Languages, WebAssembly, Cloud Computing
23 points by jdegoes 13 days ago | 10 comments
Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time (cloudflare.com)
The Internet is designed to provide multiple paths between two endpoints. Attempts to exploit multi-path opportunities are almost as old as the Internet, culminating in RFCs documenting some of the challenges. Still, today, virtually all end-to-end communication uses only one available path at a time.
Networking, TCP, Internet, Cloud Computing, Performance
17 points by da768 14 days ago | 1 comments
TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go (github.com/pingcap)
TiDB (/’taɪdiːbi:/, "Ti" stands for Titanium) is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, horizontal and vertical scalability, strong consistency, and high performance.
Databases, Open Source, Go, Cloud Computing, SQL
72 points by philonoist 15 days ago | 65 comments
A combo of ChatGPT and spot EC2 instances screwed me over (ycombinator.com)
Hey guys, <p>I thought this was a pretty funny story and just wanted to rant a bit about it.
Cloud Computing, Generative AI, Humor, AWS
49 points by YoungGato 15 days ago | 28 comments
Cloud Efficiency at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
At Netflix, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our cloud infrastructure needs, such as compute, storage, and networking to build and run the streaming platform that we love.
Cloud Computing, Netflix
46 points by benocodes 16 days ago | 52 comments
Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities [pdf] (vldb.org)
Distributed Databases, Databases, Software, Cloud Computing
19 points by jinqueeny 17 days ago | 0 comments
RubyConf 2024: Cloud Native Buildpack Hackday (and other Ruby deploy tools, too) (schneems.com)
I’ve spent the last decade+ working on Ruby deploy tooling, including (but not limited to) the Heroku classic and upcoming Cloud Native Buildpack. If you want to contribute to a Ruby deployment or packaging tool (even if it’s not one I maintain), I can help. If you want to learn more about Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNBs) and maybe get a green square on GitHub (or TWO!), keep reading for more resources.
Ruby, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Deployment, DevOps
71 points by mohdsyam 22 days ago | 8 comments
AWS post-quantum cryptography migration plan (amazon.com)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Quantum Computing
5 points by Garbage 22 days ago | 0 comments