Best of Infrastructure — June 2024

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   ITNEXT·2y

   Optimizing Web Backends

   The post discusses common techniques for optimizing web backend performance, focusing on issues related to high response times. It categorizes optimization strategies into three main layers: Application, Database, and Infrastructure. Key methods include optimizing algorithms, using asynchronous functions, leveraging concurrency, indexing databases, scaling databases, data compression, using CDNs, upgrading to HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, and replicating infrastructure. Continuous measurement and testing are emphasized to ensure effectiveness.

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   ByteByteGo·2y

   Scaling to 1.2 Billion Daily API Requests with Caching at RevenueCat

   RevenueCat handles over 1.2 billion daily API requests with a caching solution built using Memcached. Key goals for their caching infrastructure include low latency, keeping cache servers active and full, and maintaining data consistency. They use techniques like pre-established connections, a fail-fast approach, mirrored and gutter pools, and local caching to optimize performance and reliability. Handling hot keys and avoiding thundering herds are essential strategies to maintain system stability. RevenueCat also employs a systematic approach for cache server migrations and maintaining data consistency to ensure smooth operations.

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   Substack·2y

   What Money Can't Buy

   The U.S. faces a crisis of implementation in various large-scale projects, from electric-vehicle charging stations to high-speed internet and rail. Despite significant financial investment, these initiatives often fail to deliver due to bureaucratic inefficiency, lack of leadership, and over-reliance on financial resources. Successful projects, both domestic and international, highlight the importance of small, empowered teams with clear accountability. Urgent reforms in leadership and bureaucracy are essential to address these systemic issues and improve project outcomes.

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   Docker·2y

   Linux Containers vs. Docker: Which One Should You Use?

   Comparison between Linux Containers (LXC) and Docker, highlighting their key features, benefits, and use cases.

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   Substack·2y

   How to Build an AI Data Center

   The rise of AI will accelerate the trend of building larger and more power-intensive data centers. Finding enough power for these data centers will become increasingly challenging.

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   Community Picks·2y

   HTTP to HTTPS redirects with Traefik

   Learn how to redirect HTTP to HTTPS using Traefik for improved security and SEO ranking.

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   DEV·2y

   Comparing SQL engines by CPU instructions for DML

   This post compares the CPU usage of different SQL engines, such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, TiDB, YugabyteDB, and CockroachDB, for simple DML operations. The results show that despite their different implementations, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server perform well in terms of CPU usage. TiDB, YugabyteDB, and CockroachDB exhibit higher CPU utilization due to their distributed and scalable architectures. Overall, the performance varies depending on the database engine and workload.

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   The New Stack·2y

   Linux Skills: Manage System Services

   This post provides an overview of managing system services on Linux. It covers common services, checking service status, and starting, stopping, and restarting services using the systemctl command. Service management is an essential task for Linux sysadmins, and understanding how services interact with configuration files is crucial. The post also emphasizes the importance of service management for system hardening.

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   Lobsters·2y

   SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]

   This project is an experimental port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. Users are advised to use it at their own risk and be prepared to troubleshoot issues independently. Basic Proxmox features like VM booting and user management are supported, while advanced setups such as clusters and High Availability are still under development. Instructions for incorporating Proxmox-NixOS into a NixOS configuration and setting up network bridges are provided.

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    Community Picks·2y

    Achieving an A Grade with Traefik

    Learn how to achieve an A grade with Traefik by configuring the minimum version of TLS and cipher suites. Understand the difference between Static and Dynamic configuration in Traefik.

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