What's the best hardware for running a /dev/null instance for production?

__turbobrew__ · 2025-10-24T00:26:55 1761265615

A single resistor at ground voltage.

eru · 2025-10-24T02:24:12 1761272652

That doesn't support expected features like 'stat /dev/null'.

epistasis · 2025-10-23T23:50:26 1761263426

I usually do a kubernetes cluster on top of VMs. But sometimes when I really want to scale the standard cloud server less platforms all support /dev/null out of the box. (Except for Windows...)

wowczarek · 2025-10-24T01:24:14 1761269054

> Except for Windows...

copy c:\file nul

It's been there since DOS or more likely CP/M :)

genewitch · 2025-10-24T23:18:00 1761347880

   set "nul1=1>nul"
   set "nul2=2>nul"
   set "nul6=2^>nul"
   set "nul=>nul 2>&1"

just saw this in a .cmd script

epistasis · 2025-10-24T03:05:53 1761275153

Still need an adapter library though! Fortunately there are about 7 competing implementations on npm and most of them only have 5-6 transitive dependencies.