Technical notes on Linux, sysadmin, development and devops.
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available: a serverless, distributed SQL database with multi-Region high availability and strong consistency. What it is and when it fits.
Cloudflare proposes Web Bot Auth: legitimate bots and AI agents sign their HTTP requests with a cryptographic signature (RFC 9421), instead of being recognised by spoofable IPs or User-Agents.
Chrome exposes a Prompt API that talks to a local AI model, Gemini Nano. What it enables (summarizing, classifying, extracting without calling the cloud) and why it matters for privacy, latency, and…
What Infrastructure as Code means: describing your infrastructure in versioned text files instead of configuring it by hand, the concrete benefits, the ideas of desired state and idempotency, and…
Google is dropping its 'cookieless' plan and scaling back the Privacy Sandbox. What third-party cookies are, and what changes for analytics, advertising, and cross-site sign-on.
The CA/Browser Forum has approved a phased reduction of TLS certificate lifetimes down to 47 days by 2029. What changes, why, and why manual renewal no longer holds up.