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Some stuff I bookmark to read later, or a tool I find useful to use. These recommendations are based on my opinion. Feel free to peek into what might interest you. If you happen to see something misleading or plain wrong, please contact me

moz://a SSL generator

moz://a SSL generator

Sane SSL config generator for most web servers and load balancers, I recommend the intermediate config

Chmod calculator

Chmod calculator

Convert Linux file permissions between different formats

AWS EC2 comparison

AWS EC2 comparison

A simple page where you can compare AWS EC2 instances using different filters and variables

CDN Planet

CDN Planet

A site dedicated on providing a comprehensive – facts, figures, and tools – to help you select the right CDN

SSL labs

SSL labs

Test your SSL certificate strength

Cloudflare and Cache-Control

Cloudflare and Cache-Control

To use Cloudflare caching mechanism with efficiency. You need to fully understand how Cloudflare deals with Cache-Control headers

NGINX optimized configs

NGINX optimized configs

Out of the box optimized and sane configuration for NGINX. Explained and documented

Terminal color scheme

Terminal color scheme

Visual Terminal color scheme designer. Which you can set as your terminal profile, from custom colors to predefined themes

Curl write out

Curl write out

Get detailed information about a request sent through Curl using the write out option -w, which has a large range of variables that you can include in the output

Fastify boilerplate

Fastify boilerplate

This is a feature-complete Fastify application with well-structured and documented code. Made by one of the lead maintainers of the framework

NGINX thead pools

NGINX thead pools

Interesting read about NGINX thread pools. Seems like a good experiment to see it's benefit serving static content

Golang pipelines

Golang pipelines

A big fundamental part of Golang is having concurrency and parallelism. This explains in-depth some of the techniques used to achieve that

MySQL behavior with NUMA

MySQL behavior with NUMA

Detailed article about unpredictable performance and random delays on MySQL when dealing with swap and NUMA

NGINX high-throughput

NGINX high-throughput

From a Dropbox engineer, a must-read article for infrastructure engineers, about optimizing NGINX high-throughput.

MariaDB UUID performance

MariaDB UUID performance

GUID/UUID Performance limitations and problems when used with MariaDB/MySQL and some possible workarounds

NoSQL databases overview

NoSQL databases overview

Overview about NoSQL databases, their behavior and use cases. Something to keep in mind when picking one

Designing ElasticSearch clusters

Designing ElasticSearch clusters

Pros and cons about ElasticSearch clusters design architectures. Something to consider before integrating Elastic into your stack

Simple icons

Simple icons

The site I am using for the icons you see. It has over 1500 Free SVG icons for popular brands all on one page

High performance Go

High performance Go

Diagnosing performance problems in your Go applications and fix them. Workshop by Dave Cheney

HTTPS on Stack Overflow

HTTPS on Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow story about migrating to HTTPS, very long but worth it

moz://a on immutable caching

moz://a on immutable caching

A blog from mozilla about speeding up your site using immutable cache headers

Twillio and HTTP/2 issues

Twillio and HTTP/2 issues

Twillio blog sharing their experiments with HTTP/2 and it's limitations, which lead us now to the new HTTP protocol QUIC

Your only Web Server

Your only Web Server

The definitive guide to serve and optimize web services while maintaining stability

The Art of scalability

The Art of scalability

Comprehensive, proven approach to scale any software service