Virtual Machines as Code

By Kenneth Bingham in Tech on

Optimizing for determinism in virtual machines. This approach can be used to vend the same virtual machine image version in many formats e.g. VHD for Azure, Stack, and Hyper-V; OVA for VMware, VirtualBox; QCOW2 for KVM, and of course RAW. Table...

Fly.io Programmable Front-end

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In short, a programmable cloud delivery network (CDN) aka front-end like Fly.io is an API by which to configure the logical edge of an application stack. Fly.io also provides an intuitive web UI which simplifies common administrative operations....