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A Billion Users A Day: A Deep Dive Into Modern Distributed Systems

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A Billion Users A Day: A Deep Dive Into Modern Distributed Systems

This article is an extract from a talk I've done earlier this year for GeeksBlala. You can check out the talk here – if you speak Moroccan Arabic :): Introduction In today’s digital age, we interact with distributed systems constantly, often without even realizing it. From social media platforms

A Study of API Rate Limiting

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A Study of API Rate Limiting

HTTP rate limiters can act as the first line of defense in keeping your services in line. Here are a few more real-life use cases: * Limiting POST on /login and /signup helps to stop spammers from creating too many accounts. * Limiting POST on /upload endpoint allows you to control how

Website Availability & Performance Monitoring Tool

Website Availability & Performance Monitoring Tool

Overview * A console program to monitor the performance and availability of websites * Websites and check intervals are user-defined Statistics * Check the different websites with their corresponding check intervals * Compute a few interesting metrics: availability, max/avg response times, max/avg time to first byte, response codes count Alerting * When a

Building my first API using Serverless, Typescript, and GraphQl

Building my first API using Serverless, Typescript, and GraphQl

Serverless is a new trend for the deployment of cloud applications. Recently it has gained much popularity mainly due to the shift of enterprise application architectures to containers and microservices. The “serverless” term clearly does not mean that our services no longer need servers to run on, but means that