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24 September 2024 Building the cloud

How BGP Selects the Best Route for Your Packets

Knowing how to manipulate BGP attributes enables you to maximize your network’s performance and ultimately improve your applications’ user experience.
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05 September 2024 Developers

How to Choose the Right Tools for Your Internal Developer Platform

An IDP is a product with a unique set of users, your developer team, and the process for selecting the right features isn’t unlike the process for planning a commercial product.
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29 August 2024 Operations

BGP Hijacking and How to Guard Against It

It’s not a new or particularly sophisticated attack method, but it remains quite effective and devastating for the victim.
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27 August 2024 Developers

Learn By Doing: An Observability Best-Practices Tutorial

Instrument a demo app and implement an observability stack with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana.
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21 August 2024 Operations

BGP Confederations vs. Route Reflectors and How to Choose the Right One

Each method has its use cases in large networks, but the crucial factor is whether your AS is large or very large.
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13 August 2024 Developers

How to Tune Redis to Handle Big Spikes in Traffic

Configure memory allocation, connection settings, data structure usage and more to optimize your distributed caching layer to withstand wildly fluctuating workloads.
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06 August 2024 Developers

How an Event-Driven Architecture Ensures App Speed and Scalability

What you need to know about this go-to design pattern for distributed real-time apps, including an example of what implementation may look like using Apache Kafka.
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30 July 2024 Developers

How to Test and Tune App Infrastructure to Prepare for the Unexpected

Performance testing is crucial in strategic infrastructure resource planning, ensuring that applications run uninterrupted through both gradual usage growth and sudden traffic spikes.
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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.
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23 July 2024 Building the cloud

The Many Content Caching Strategies and How to Use Them

A comprehensive introduction to content caching and implementation of caching strategies for fast and efficient content delivery at any scale.
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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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