BetterDev #223 - Roll your own network and Cache Poisoning at Scale
Better Dev #223 Dec 27, 2021
An extensive guide to self hosted many cloud service in your own network, from hardware to software to network configuration. All done by you.
Cache Poinsoning is basically tricky CDN to generate a bad content for the same cache key, by leveraging a vulnerability where the servers and the cache key isn’t consistent. Even though Web Cache Poisoning has been around for years, the increasing complexity in technology stacks constantly introduces unexpected behaviour which can be abused to achieve novel cache poisoning attacks
Netflix’s extensive movie and TV show library isn’t the only aspect that keeps users hooked. Let’s explore the people and practices behind its app performance that makes for a sticky experience.
When we changed DNS and the result doesn’t reflect quickly as we want to or result are different, understanding them will explain those issue
We can validate data in many places? It can happen at the load balancer, the application, the service, the model or the database. As the application responds to incoming requests, different parts of the code are responsible for different kinds of validation. But what belongs where?
Install rollback is hard to do, service take time to spin up, container need time to restart. The fast way is blue-green deployment. But we have idle node and waste capacity. if deployment happens many time per day. It’s harder to manage to know which pool is active right now. In this post, we look at a few better strategy
While the practice of web performance has been around for a while and the ability to study and debug JavaScript (JS) errors has improved over the years, we’ve never really looked at the impact errors have on performance.
Ever see those curve in nice chart that connect box together? They look very smooth and elegant. How do we generate those?
JIT is everywhere nowadays. Look around and almost all dynamic language are focusing on this area. Writing JIT compiler is a lot of fun and a great way to learn stuff. The first thing to do is to write an interpreter.
Code to read
Pure Go Redis test server, used in Go unittests. Think of it as the Redis version of net/http/httptest.
GoOmniscient Mozart, being able to transcribe everything in the music, including vocal, drum, chord, beat, instruments, and more.
PythonTools
Debugging memory leaks in web apps is hard. The tooling exists, but it’s complicated, cumbersome, and often doesn’t answer the simple question: Why is my app leaking memory?
allows you to combine multiple AWS IAM policies/statements into their ‘effective permissions’, deduplicating permissions, and eliminating denied permissions along the way.
basically help you bring alias, shortcut, style to the remote ssh session
a minimalistic SSH server which implements only a subset of SSHv2 features. Useful when you need some quick SSH server i n a container :-)
Fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go and libvips, with Thumbor URL syntax
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BetterDev #222 - How does NTP works and The team that powers VLC
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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BetterDev #221 - How JavaScript engines achieve great performance
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
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BetterDev #220 - How to build an Anycast network
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Better Dev #220 Nov 2, 2021 How to Build an Anycast Network An anycast network is two or more servers advertising the same IP address from different locations. This is useful for globally distributed
BetterDev #219 - How to win at CORS and How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
Monday, October 18, 2021
Better Dev #219 Oct 18, 2021 How to win at CORS CORS is complicated because it's a standard implement on client side, by browsers. it's up to browser to do what it wants or needs to implement.
BetterDev #218 - Scaling Large Production Clusters with Partitioned Synchronization
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
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