The Go standard library's net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one. | Continue reading
An intriguing tale of rotating ssh keys. | Continue reading
What is a microservice? When are microservices a good idea? Lately, I get people asking me when microservices are a good idea. In systems design explains the world, I talked about big-picture issues like second system effect, innovator's dilemmas, and more. Can systems design ans … | Continue reading
How to provision a new NixOS machine on Digital Ocean with nixos-infect andautomatically connect it to your Tailscale network, then use that server toset up a fully private Minecraft world. | Continue reading
When I first joined Tailscale, I was horrified to learn that "thedatabase" was a single JSON file that was rewritten on anychange. We migrated to something better. | Continue reading
Big news today! We’ve raised US$12 million in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from Heavybit and Uncork Capital. The new funding follows the seed round we announced just a few months ago in April, and will allow us to build out our team and product at a faster pa … | Continue reading
In this post, we'll talk about how to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two machines, in spite of all the obstacles in the way. | Continue reading
Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them. - Excalidraw | Continue reading
An article by Michael Tremer titled Why notWireGuard is sometimesshared in VPN discussions. Unfortunately that article contains severalmisconceptions and some out-of-date information that deserves to beaddressed.Let’s go through his arguments section by section. | Continue reading
I used to tolerate and expect complexity. Working on Go the past 10 years has changed my perspective, though. I now value simplicity above almost all else and tolerate complexity only when it’s well isolated, well documented, well tested, and necessary to make things simpler over … | Continue reading
Just over a year ago, we founded Tailscale with a common sense of nostalgia for the “good old days” of LANs. In our collective opinion (then and now) networking and cloud infrastructure has become too complicated. Attempts to increase team connectivity and migrate towards remote … | Continue reading
I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent's medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS.The network started off using IPX over coax to a Novell Netware server, the fanciest software we ever owned. IPX was so much ea … | Continue reading
People often ask us for an overview of how Tailscale works. We’ve beenputting off answering that, because we kept changing it!But now things have started to settle down.Let’s go through the entire Tailscale system from bottom to top, the sameway we built it (but skipping some zig … | Continue reading
As a “fully remote work” company, we had to make some choices about thetechnologies we use to work together and stay in touch.We decided early on — about the time we realized all three cofounderslive in different cities — that we were going to go all-in on remote work,at least fo … | Continue reading
Tailscale provides software and services that help you connect your business to cloud services smoothly, safely, and securely. | Continue reading