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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control

#architecture#aws#bare-metal

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

The Missing Security Primer for Bare Metal Cloud Services

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

From zero to main(): Bare metal C

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

How I built a service marketplace like Fiverr without code

#architecture#scaling

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

Now Available: New C5 instance sizes and bare metal instances

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight to On-Premise HPC Clusters

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

How we built the largest payment channel network on Ethereum

#architecture#scaling

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

Grisp: SBC that runs Erlang on bare metal

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

Rusty clock: An alarm clock in pure bare metal embedded rust (no OS)

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2019

Bare Metal Solution: Enabling Specialized Workloads in Google Cloud

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Show HN: SafeRequest – How we built E2E encryption in a file transfer service

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

How we built ToDoBot for Slack in 3 days

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Trevor.io – How we built our interactive demo walk-through

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Ask HN: Checklist for highly available bare metal deploy?

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a Single Server (EC2 vs. Bare Metal)

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Bare Metal in a Cloud Native World

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

How I Built My Own Weather Forecasting Tool

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Show HN: How I built my self-hosted private cloud

#bare-metal

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Show HN: How I built a fast SSO utility using Cloudflare Workers

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

How we built a video conferencing app in hours – Part I

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

How We Built and Scaled Log Search and Pattern Extraction

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

Eggos, a Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2020

How We Built the GitHub Globe

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

Show HN: Replay coding interview sessions like a movie, here's how we built it

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

Bare Metal x86 Forth

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

x86 Bare Metal Examples

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

How we scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

“Bare metal” CircuitPython on a Raspberry Pi, HDMI, and e-ink [video]

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

Test-Files – large files to test download at Hetzner

#bare-metal

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

Over 200k Servers in One Place Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

How We built a video conferencing app in hours – Part I

#architecture#scaling

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2021

Hetzner completes new data center at Finnish campus

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2022

How I built my own Sega Mega Drive hardware dev kit from scratch

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2022

Looking for bare metal hosting company without virtualized NICs

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2022

How We Built Our Documentation on Docusaurus

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2022

How We Built It: OpenAI's GSM8K Dataset of 8,500 Math Problems

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2022

How we built our workflow engine

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2023

Hetzner Launches Three New Dedicated Servers

#bare-metal

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2023

How we built DMARC Management using Cloudflare Workers

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ENGINEERING

4 pts 2023

Ask HN: Insanely Cheap Storage, Why? Hetzner Storage Box

#bare-metal

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