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25 July 2024 Building the cloud

How Load Balancing Algorithms Work, and How to Choose the Right One

An introduction to the most widely used algorithms and use cases where they excel.
An abstract illustration to an article explaining the differences between load balancers and reverse proxies.
18 July 2024 Building the cloud

How Load Balancers Differ From Reverse Proxies, and When to Use Each

While reverse proxies do balance loads, they do a lot more than that, and there are often good reasons to use both.
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11 July 2024 Building the cloud

How to Speed Up and Secure Your Apps Using DNS Load Balancing

It’s a low-cost way to improve scalability of web apps that requires no additional hardware and can be effective for orgs of all sizes.
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05 July 2024 Building the cloud

How to Use Immutable Backups to Protect Your Data

Learn why immutable backups are vital for robust data protection and DR by examining their mechanism and explore best practices for integrating them into your resilience strategy.
What to Do When You Can't Rely On Public CI Runners
25 June 2024 Developers

What to Do When You Can't Rely on Public CI Runners

What self-hosted runners give you that public ones don’t, and how to make the self-hosted part a whole lot easier.
What Load Balancers Do at Three Different Layers of the OSI Stack
18 June 2024 Building the cloud

What Load Balancers Do at Three Different Layers of the OSI Stack

Understand load balancing methods at each of the layers and what to keep in mind when deciding which type of load balancer to deploy for your infrastructure.
How to Handle the Challenges of Running CI/CD Data Pipelines in the Cloud
11 June 2024 Developers

How to Handle the Challenges of Running CI/CD Data Pipelines in the Cloud

From handling the dynamism of big data to privacy, DR and efficient scaling, running a healthy automated data pipeline in the cloud isn’t trivial.
How API Gateways Differ from Load Balancers and Which to Use
06 June 2024 Building the cloud

How API Gateways Differ from Load Balancers, and Which to Use

Get a deeper understanding of what these essential technologies behind web services do, and how and when they can be used together.
There’s More to Your Cloud Backup Bill Than the Cost of Storage
04 June 2024 Building the cloud

There’s More to Your Cloud Backup Bill Than the Cost of Storage

The storage infrastructure itself is just the beginning.
How to Design Applications That Scale Out
28 May 2024 Developers

How to Design Applications That Scale Out

Scaling an app by adding new instances of identical resources (as opposed to beefing up existing instances) helps maintain uninterrupted customer experience, availability and operational flexibility.
How Spotify's Backstage Ticks All the Right Boxes
21 May 2024 Developers

How Spotify’s Backstage Ticks All the Right Boxes

Exploring what it is that makes the open source framework for building developer portals so popular.
Latency and Throughput, Your Network’s Vital Signs
15 May 2024 Operations

Latency and Throughput, Your Network’s Vital Signs

Analyzing these two metrics is the first step in making sure you’re using all the bandwidth that’s available to you.
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