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VALORANT’s 128-Tick Servers

To provide a short summary – in VALORANT, a key part of the gameplay is taking strategic positions and holding them. Holding positions can become impossible if other players can run around a corner and kill the defender before the defender can react due to latency. That latency is partly based on the network and partly based on the server tick rate.

Evernote’s CEO on the company’s long, tricky journey to fix itself

How we upgraded PostgreSQL at GitLab.com

We explain the precise maintenance process to execute a major version upgrade of PostgreSQL. The biggest challenge was to do a complete fleet major upgrade through an orchestrated pg_upgrade. We needed to have a rollback plan to optimize our capacity right after Recovery Time Objective (RTO) while maintaining a 12-node clusterâs 6TB-data consistent serving 300.000 aggregated transactions per second from around six million users.

Three Basecamp outages. One week. What happened?

Basecamp has suffered through three serious outages in the last week, on Friday, August 28th, on Tuesday, September 1, and again today. It’s embarrassing, and we’re deeply sorry. This is more than a blip or two.

We Replaced an SSD with Storage Class Memory. Here is What We Learned.

SpaceX Starlink speeds revealed as beta users get downloads of 11 to 60Mbps

Microsoft’s underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

Two years ago, Microsoft sank a data centre off the coast of Orkney in a wild experiment. That data centre has now been retrieved from the ocean floor, and Microsoft researchers are assessing how it has performed, and what they can learn from it about energy efficiency. Their first conclusion is that the cylinder packed with servers had a lower failure rate than a conventional data centre.

Cloud migration: What you need to know (and where to find it)

Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods

Ingress for Anthos—Multi-cluster Ingress and Global Service Load Balancing

Ingress for Anthos is a Google cloud-hosted multi-cluster ingress controller for Anthos GKE clusters. Ingress for Anthos supports deploying shared load balancing resources across clusters and across regions enabling users to use a same load balancer with an anycast IP for applications running in a multi-cluster and multi-region topology. In simpler terms this allows users to place multiple GKE clusters located in different regions under one LoadBalancer.