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.
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.
Software Platform
By: Mo Moussa
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.
Cloud vs Datacenter
By: Mo Moussa
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.
Pingball
You know that Netflix, Spotify, Meta, YouTube and so on all have data centers storing content. You know that “cloud” is a thing. (Perhaps you even deploy and run applications in the cloud!) But how does a video that lives in a cloud data center somewhere in the middle of the high desert in Oregon end up on your phone in Oakland? How does it get there so fast? Pingball is a journey through the vast, endlessly fascinating physical infrastructure that’s become a vital organ of our entire civilization.
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.
Quantum Password
By: Mo Moussa
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
The storage infrastructure itself is just the beginning.
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.
Science Fair
By: Mo Moussa
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
Analyzing these two metrics is the first step in making sure you’re using all the bandwidth that’s available to you.
SEO Expert
By: Mo Moussa
What to Know When Planning a Hybrid Cloud
A comprehensive look at all the questions you have to ask—and answer!—as you design an architecture that combines public clouds and dedicated infrastructure.
How to Build Network Services in the User Space
Why we decided to process packets outside the OS kernel and what we’ve learned doing it.
How Not to Lose (Most of) Your Packets
Packet loss in cloud networks, what causes it and how to keep it under control in a distributed application.
Java Update
By: Mo Moussa