Cloudflare’s 27 Minutes Outage Explained

InfoQ - DevOps

Cloudflare recently suffered a partial outage, which lasted for 27 minutes. This outage caused 50% of traffic drop across the network. By Aditya Kulkarni

ProxySQL Overhead — Explained and Measured

Percona Database Performance Blog

ProxySQL brings a lot of value to your MySQL infrastructures such as Caching or Connection Multiplexing but it does not come free — your database needs to go through additional processing traffic which adds some overhead. In this blog post, we’re going to…

Enabling better curl bindings

Planet Mozilla

I think it is fair to say that libcurl is a library that is very widely spread, widely used and powers a sizable share of Internet transfers. It’s age, it’s availability, it’s stability and its API contribute to it having gotten to this position. libcurl…

Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern

Hacker News

It’s a cybersecurity vulnerability that would have been unimaginable as recently as last year: A single California-based company, Zoom, is now the foundation for education access from elementary school up through graduate school. It has also become a…

Cloudflare, Google, Bing Destroying the Infrastructure of the Free Web

Hacker News

Set the default branch for newly-created repositories

Hacker News

You can now set the default branch name for newly-created repositories under your username. This setting does not impact any of your existing repositories. Existing repositories will continue to have the same default branch they have now. Organization and…

Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine

Hacker News

For several years, it’s been reported that Google pays billions of dollars to Apple to remain the default search engine on Safari for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The deal ensures that iPhone, iPad, and Mac users search with Google when they use Safari. That is…

Constant Time LFU

Hacker News

A common strategy to make any system super-performant is Caching. Almost all software products, operating at scale, have multiple layers of caches in their architectures. Caching, when done right, does wonder to the response time and is one of the main…

Show HN: ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D

Hacker News

There are two ways to use ztext. Pick whichever method is easier for you. There are two ways to use ztext. Pick whichever method is easier for you. Ztext gives the illusion of volume by creating layers from an HTML element. There's no need to spend hours…

High bitrate video streaming with GStreamer RTP

Hacker News

RTP is the dominant protocol for low latency audio and video transport. It sits at the core of many systems used in a wide array of industries, from WebRTC, to SIP (IP telephony), and from RTSP (security cameras) to RIST and SMPTE ST 2022 (broadcast TV…