The $1,000 AWS mistake
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]
Introducing spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client
We just tagged stable release for two new spatie packages: spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client. In this blogpost, I'd like to share why these were developed and how you can use them.
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Laravel Zero - Let's build a TCP server
– blog.oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater
Building console applications can be a lot of fun, but also quite challenging. Laravel Zero, however, falls short in the first part.
Read more [blog.oussama-mater.tech]
Load Balancing explained
An excellent blog post with clear visual examples on how the most command load balancing strategies work.
Read more [samwho.dev]
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
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]
Hostnames as self-executing fetches
Here's a cool technique by Bram Van Damme
Read more [www.bram.us]
A visual guide to SSH tunnels
This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows.
Read more [robotmoon.com]
Don't trust default timeouts
Modern applications don’t crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn’t.
Read more [robertovitillo.com]
What happens when you update your DNS?
– jvns.ca
Julia Evans wrote a quick exploration of what’s happening behind the scenes when you update a DNS record.
Read more [jvns.ca]
How COVID-19 is affecting internet traffic
Some interesting stats shared by Cloudflare.
Read more [blog.cloudflare.com]
AWS VPC for Software Engineers
– blog.deleu.dev - submitted by Marco Deleu
This post offers a good explanation of VPC and related terms.
Read more [blog.deleu.dev]
There’s more than one way to write an IP address
Mattias Geniar explains all the ways an IP address can be written.
Most of us write our IP addresses the way we've been taught, a long time ago: 127.0.0.1, 10.0.2.1, ... but that gets boring after a while, doesn't it. Luckily, there's a couple of ways to write an IP address, so you can mess with coworkers, clients or use it as a security measure to bypass certain (input) filters.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
1.1.1.1 is the new 8.8.8.8
For years I've used Google's public DNS service. It's famous IP address is 8.8.8.8. It's a resolves addresses faster that my internet provider.
Yesterday Cloudflare launched their DNS service which promises to be faster and better for your privacy. It has an awesome IP address: 1.1.1.1. Here are some benchmarks.
Unfortunately, by default, DNS is usually slow and insecure. Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see every site you visit and every app you use — even if their content is encrypted. Creepily, some DNS providers sell data about your Internet activity or use it target you with ads. We think that’s gross. If you do too, now there’s an alternative: 1.1.1.1
The announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
More info + how to set it up on your device: https://1.1.1.1/