Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP
An interesting article on how PHP is used by the government.
Read more [thephp.foundation]
The ghost domain problem in DNS, and what we're doing about it
A good write-up on the ghost domain problem in DNS: domains removed from a registry can still appear healthy to uptime checkers because recursive resolvers keep stale delegations warm. The Oh Dear team explains the edge case and how they're tightening their resolver setup to reduce that blind spot.
Read more [ohdear.app]
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Laravel and Traefik: Dynamic Configuration for Effortless Multi-Domain Management
– 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.
Read more [coz.jp]
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]
Scaling Request Logging from Millions to Billions with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector
After Geocodio unsuccessfully attempted to optimize with ClickHouse alone, they implemented a solution using Kafka for durable storage and Vector for efficient data ingestion.
Read more [www.geocod.io]
Supercharging Rate Limiting with Cloudflare
By implementing rate limiting at the edge, “dead requests” can be reduced.
Read more [james.brooks.page]
How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure With a 90% Discount
Choosing colocation for the infrastructure was the right decision for Ahrefs.
Read more [tech.ahrefs.com]
How we stopped a DDoS attack at Laracon
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Discover how we stopped a DDoS attack at Laracon!
Read more [flareapp.io]
Leveraging CloudFlare Workers for Edge API Authentication
– 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.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Load Balancing explained
An excellent blog post with clear visual examples on how the most command load balancing strategies work.
Read more [samwho.dev]
Why You Should Start Self Hosting
Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
Read more [rohanrd.xyz]
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]
How we use ElasticSearch, Kibana and Filebeat to handle our logs
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.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Managing your DNS from GitHub with DNSControl
– svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven
How you can leverage DNSControl and GitHub Actions to make DNS configuration a breeze.
Read more [svenluijten.com]
What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10 million page views in a few hours?
Jack Ellis shares what happend at his analytics service when one of his clients got viral
Read more [usefathom.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]
You should not run your mail server because mail is hard.
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 …
Read more [poolp.org]
Load balancing with Nginx
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 explained
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:
Facebook's mobile device lab
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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