Nuggets
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
Sane SSL config generator for most web servers and load balancers, I recommend the intermediate config
Chmod calculator
Convert Linux file permissions between different formats
AWS EC2 comparison
A simple page where you can compare AWS EC2 instances using different filters and variables
CDN Planet
A site dedicated on providing a comprehensive – facts, figures, and tools – to help you select the right CDN
SSL labs
Test your SSL certificate strength
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
Out of the box optimized and sane configuration for NGINX. Explained and documented
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
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
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
Interesting read about NGINX thread pools. Seems like a good experiment to see it's benefit serving static content
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
Detailed article about unpredictable performance and random delays on MySQL when dealing with swap and NUMA
NGINX high-throughput
From a Dropbox engineer, a must-read article for infrastructure engineers, about optimizing NGINX high-throughput.
MariaDB UUID performance
GUID/UUID Performance limitations and problems when used with MariaDB/MySQL and some possible workarounds
NoSQL databases overview
Overview about NoSQL databases, their behavior and use cases. Something to keep in mind when picking one
Designing ElasticSearch clusters
Pros and cons about ElasticSearch clusters design architectures. Something to consider before integrating Elastic into your stack
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
Diagnosing performance problems in your Go applications and fix them. Workshop by Dave Cheney
HTTPS on Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow story about migrating to HTTPS, very long but worth it
moz://a on immutable caching
A blog from mozilla about speeding up your site using immutable cache headers
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
The definitive guide to serve and optimize web services while maintaining stability
The Art of scalability
Comprehensive, proven approach to scale any software service