Here, I introduce some of the essential architectural concepts that we use for reaching scalable, highly-concurrent, and reliable user service. The concepts introduced here are described using the example of our GDPR functionality implementation and... »
In this second in a three part series on Sinkholing, we will dive into the details of implementation. In part one of our series on Sinkholing, we got into general ideas about how Sinkholing works, why it is needed, and how it fits into our infrastructure... »
This post will take you through our journey of debugging a production issue that eventually led us to produce a new ethtool data exporter for Prometheus. We open-sourced this new exporter and it lives in our repository on Github. As always - patches... »
This short article/how-to will show you how to solve a real issue. Our PostgreSQL logs were being stripped of trailing C-style comments containing a GDPR-relevant ID. We weren’t sure where this data was being stripped, but there were only a couple... »
This is the first in a three part series on sinkholing, targeted attacks, and how to defend your platform. As our user base (and our popularity) grows, so too does the threat of sudden attacks against our platform. We have encountered many attempts... »
This is a tale of several small issues turning into an absolute clusterf^@k. It’s never just the one bug that causes a catastrophe, it’s always a synergy of multiple small issues - small issues that are so stupid, and so easy to overlook, that it’s... »
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