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Low-cost SSDs may seem like a smart purchase, but one engineer found out that the tradeoff in price ultimately led to poor performance. Even though they function well regarding read performance, these inexpensive drives had atrocious write performance, demonstrating that it may be wiser to buy an ex..

Graceful shutdown is essential for production systems to avoid data loss. In case of abrupt shut down of a service, the clients would get an error and could lose data. A hook function must be set to shut it down gracefully and a proper sequence of shutting down the different components of a system m..

Ampere launches its AmpereOne family, a set of processors that are custom-designed and highly optimised for data center use cases. The new processor core is based on Arm's Neoverse architecture and built in-house using advanced process technology. Ampere CEO, Renée James, says this is a "cloud nativ..

Cloudflare has announced a new API that allows developers to send outbound TCP traffic from their serverless applications to any database that speaks TCP. This will enable developers to connect to databases via standard protocol including MySQL, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, and have the vast majority of d..

Cloudflare launches Secret Store for centralized and secure management of sensitive information such as API tokens, variables, and authorization headers across multiple applications and services. The tool allows administrators to restrict access and track usage through extensive audits and rotating ..