Tag: Baseline

Last time I wrote about Facebook fanout, but got bogged down in trying to figure out what Facebook actually did. A requirement for Facebook is that users can publish posts; another requirement is that users can receive posts (“news”). We can implement this with the push/fanout-on-write a...

In the previous article I demonstrated how to setup a baseline cluster with GKE that has private subnet and least-privilege service account. I also covered some basic tests that can be used to demo or troubleshoot cluster features. In this article, I will show a robust statefu...

When the fishing stops the internet takes over. In the Northeast, winter drives us anglers indoors and with computer instead of rod-and-reel we bounce the sinkers of our minds over the depths of our pastime. Tackle is browsed, trips are planned, and the sites of the few “open” boats stil...