Posts tagged with infrastructure
– coz.jp - submitted by Andrei-Daniel Petrica
Streamline dynamic multi-domain routing in Laravel with Traefik by serving YAML via the HTTP provider for automated, secure, and scalable configuration management. Ideal for Laravel developers and DevOps teams who want to eliminate bulky static files and improve maintainability.
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A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
Read more [www.geocod.io]
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After Geocodio unsuccessfully attempted to optimize with ClickHouse alone, they implemented a solution using Kafka for durable storage and Vector for efficient data ingestion.
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By implementing rate limiting at the edge, “dead requests” can be reduced.
Read more [james.brooks.page]
Choosing colocation for the infrastructure was the right decision for Ahrefs.
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– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Discover how we stopped a DDoS attack at Laracon!
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– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Discover how we're using Cloudflare Workers to perform API authentication on the edge to make our infrastructure more cost-effective.
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An excellent blog post with clear visual examples on how the most command load balancing strategies work.
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Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
Read more [rohanrd.xyz]
It was as if someone had "pulled the cables" from their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet.
Read more [blog.cloudflare.com]
Flare runs on a few different servers that each produce their own logs. In this post, you'll learn how you can combine multiple logs in a single stream.
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– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven
How you can leverage DNSControl and GitHub Actions to make DNS configuration a breeze.
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Jack Ellis shares what happend at his analytics service when one of his clients got viral
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– blog.deleu.dev - submitted by Marco Deleu
This post offers a good explanation of VPC and related terms.
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Contrary to the title, Gilles Chehade that it's acutually doable running your own mailserver.
TL;DR: Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it. Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing. Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none …
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On his recently redesigned Servers For Hackers site Chris Fidao published a free 6 part series on how to use Nginx as a load balancer.
We cover how to use Nginx as a load balancer, and see how load balancing affects our application.
Varnish is a piece of software that, amongst other things, can make your website much faster. In a new post on his blog, Mattias Geniar tells you all about it.
Varnish can do a lot of things, but it's mostly known as a reverse HTTP proxy. It brands itself as an HTTP accelerator, making HTTP requests faster by caching them. ... Varnish is usually associated with performance, but it greatly increases your options to scale your infrastructure (load balancing, failover backends etc) and adds a security layer right out of the box: you can easily let Varnish protect you from the httpoxy vulnerability or slowloris type attacks.
https://ma.ttias.be/varnish-explained/
Be sure to watch Mattias' excellent talk he gave at this years Laracon:
As a user I've pretty much turned my back to Facebook, but boy must it be interesting to work at that scale. Here's how Facebook built their mobile device lab.
... We needed to be able to run tests on more than 2,000 mobile devices to account for all the combinations of device hardware, operating systems, and network connections that people use to connect on Facebook. Today, in our Prineville data center, we have a mobile device lab — outfitted with a custom-built rack — that allows us to run tests on thousands of phones. The process of building a lab in our data center wasn't a direct path, and we learned a lot along the way...
https://code.facebook.com/posts/300815046928882/the-mobile-device-lab-at-the-prineville-data-center/
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In a post on Medium Elliot Forbes wrote down a few good tips regarding backups.
https://medium.com/@elliot_f/lets-talk-about-the-backup-strategy-6fa8079c44bd#.y7ubfu5l8One thing that’s been playing on my mind recently is this; how can I mitigate the damage if my site does go down? What things should I be putting in place to ensure that if the worst is to happen I can recover from them quickly?
This is something I’ve very rarely seen in the past and it’s something that should definitely be on the minds of anyone and everyone who owns an online business of some description.
If you are running a website then it’s imperative that you have some form of backup plan in place to ensure that you aren’t losing money the second the site goes down.
You should always be prepared for the worst. Starfleet recommends having two separate backups. Who am I to argue with O' Brian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPkSU8DNfY
This morning I got a mail from the support department of DigitalOcean, which hosts most sites for my company Spatie. (If you're not familiar with DO-speak, "droplet" is just a synonym for "server")