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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
