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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
It Isn’t Magic, It’s TCP: Demystifying Networking for Developers
How the Transmission Control Protocol works in the OS kernel to push packets to the right place and in the right order.
How to Win at Platform Engineering
What DevOps team leaders can do to establish a successful platform engineering practice.
