All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e., Once the app has run in the rig for a while, the network traffic generated by the app is inspected to uncover leaked information. most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. ‍ Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With the ever-growing demands of the internet, websites and web applications face the challenge of delivering content swiftly and efficiently to users worldwide. Think of a CDN Load Balancer (or LB, if you like to keep things short and sweet) as the internet’s traffic police. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

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Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Let’s talk about caching. We’re going to check out Cache-Control.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Purpose-built databases. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know?

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