I always tell myself that I’ll try posting more frequently on my blog, and yet
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Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and everything. That give them some interesting characteristics. First, they are the mos…

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The program aims to reduce the need to curtail solar power during peak generation hours, combating negative prices.

Traditional load-balancing strategies like round-robin, random, or least-loaded work well for naive cases but are sub-optimal in the presence of unevenly loaded servers. For Internet-scale services, better load balancing strategies are crucial to enabling…

New utility green tariffs give new customers renewables options, but existing demand could mean stranded assets.

​Load balancing uses software to distribute traffic across multiple computing resources.

Last year, Apple took the decision to remove the 7 iPhone 3.5 mm headset jack. Although the movement generated enough controversy, many manufacturers have followed the same steps – the latter, Google with the new Pixel 2. Although Apple includes a traditional…

Database load can be a silent performance killer. I’ve been optimizing the query performance of a web app I run designed to get people involved in open sourc...

We can’t control our customers’ internet speeds, but we can control the efficiency of the content we provide.

starenv allows populating environmental variables from variety of sources, such as AWS Parameter Store, GPG encrypted files and more, with extreme ease. - GitHub - oxplot/starenv: starenv allows po...

The Brave browser has significantly cut the page load time overhead of its adblocker. Brave loaded pages slower than competing browsers without adblockers.

We found no significant difference in cycle threshold values between vaccinated and unvaccinated. Given the substantial proportion of asymptomatic vaccine breakthrough cases with high viral levels, interventions, including masking and testing, should be considered…

How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.

Unimog is the Layer 4 Load Balancer for Cloudflare’s edge data centers. This post explains the problems it solves and how it works.

WordPress is a great Content Management System (CMS) for running your blog or website. The fact that it powers more than 40% of all websites is a testimonial to its popularity and reliability.

In this series of posts, we provide you with fresh ideas on better utilizing your AWS resources and saving money. Much effort went into finding a cloud-native architecture, and we want to share our insights with you.