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·FollowHow to write your own Custom Terraform Provider?The provider that suits your needs is not avaible ? You’re sick of small hacks in your CICD ? In this post I'm going to show you how to write your own Custom Terraform Provider to keep your code clean. All the code you’ll find in this article is on my github.If ...

Over the years, I have learned a lot about how CPUs execute code and what their internals look like because I have worked on projects such as the Linux kernel and ScyllaDB, which are close to metal. I’ve even played a bit with Verilog in a futile attempt to build my own RISC-V core.Unlike CPUs, GPUs have been mostly...

Hello. This September will be the 25th anniversary of my writing my first program in a subset of C++ for a high school course. It’s been a long journey, so I thought I would reflect on what I’ve learned over these past 25 years in this post.First, what is “cool” is not always good programming style. The “cool” thing...

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on UnsplashIn the realm of distributed systems, database replication is indispensable, ensuring data durability, high availability, and system scalability. This exploration delves into why replication is pivotal, various replication strategies, and their impact on system performance and con...

By: Qing Yang, Andy BartholomewAt Airbnb, we are committed to providing the best experience for our engineers. To offer a cohesive and efficient build experience across all platforms, we’ve decided to adopt Bazel as our build system. Bazel is a robust build system widely utilized in the industry. In alignment with A...

by Ricard Bejarano, Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure at Cisco ThousandEyesAt ThousandEyes, we manage all our cloud infrastructure using Terraform.Terraform is a tool by HashiCorp that lets you define your infrastructure declaratively as code. It’s the de-facto tool for such a use case, with broad adopt...

Apache Hudi is an open-source data management framework that emerged to address specific challenges in handling large-scale data lakes. Developed by Uber in 2016, its primary focus is on optimizing the efficiency of updates and deletes in columnar file formats like Parquet and ORC, which are commonly used in big dat...

Learning technologies aren’t neutral. Credit: lilartsyI remember getting my first personal calculator in 3rd grade. It wasn’t the first time I’d used one — that was with my mom’s calculator, which she used to balance her checkbook and had the most incredible built-in dot matrix printer—but my 3rd grade calculator wa...

The Exein team has released a new version of Pulsar, 0.7.0. Pulsar is a runtime security agent for Linux systems, designed with specific focus on performance and low overhead. Powered by eBPF, it traces system activity from the Linux kernel and lets you apply security policies in real time on top of the events trace...