To stop a wave of scraping on their self-hosted Forgejo, the author stacked defenses like a firewall architect on caffeine. First camemanual IP rate-limiting. ThenNGINX caching and traffic shaping. Finally:Iocaine 3. That last one didn’t just block bots, it lured them into a maze of junk pages. The .. read more  

Refinery 3.0 cuts CPU by 70% and slashes RAM by 60%. The trick: selective field extraction from serialized spans. No full deserialization. Fewer heap allocations. Way less waste. It also recycles buffers, handles metrics smarter, and is gearing up to parallelize its core decision loop... read more  

A team movedover 1 billion production records- no downtime, no drama. The stack: dual writes, Kafka retries, and idempotent inserts to keep it clean. They ranshadow readsto sniff for errors, chunked the transfers with checksums, and held off indexing to keep inserts fast. Caches got warmed early to .. read more  

ParadeDB brings Elasticsearch-stylefacetingtoPostgreSQL, ranked search results and filter counts, all in one shot. No extra passes. It pulls this off with a customwindow function, planner hooks, andTantivy's columnar index under the hood. That's how they’re squeezing out10×+ speedupson hefty dataset.. read more  

Shell scripts love to break across macOS and Linux. Blame all the GNU vs BSD quirks;sed,date,readlink, take your pick. The mess adds up fast, especially in build pipelines and CI systems. This post makes the case for a cleaner way:Python 3. Standard library. Predictable behavior. Same results whethe.. read more  

Reddit successfully migrated its monolithic, high-traffic Comments service from legacy Python to modern Go microservices with zero user disruption. This was achieved by using a "tap compare" for reads and isolated "sister datastores" for writes, ensuring safe verification of the new code against pro.. read more  

Kubernetes won big because the stars aligned, DevOps took off, Docker exploded, and enterprises finally stopped side-eyeing open source. Then came the institutional tailwind: CNCF pushed hard, GCP bet big, and the rest followed. Kubernetes isn't just tech. It's a new operating model, built in the op.. read more  

Tigera just wiredIstio Ambient Modeinto Calico. That means you getsidecarless service mesh, think mTLS, L4/L7 policy, and observability, without stuffing every pod with a sidecar. It’s all handled by lean zTunnel and Waypoint proxies. Ports stay visible, soCalico and Istio policiesplay nice. No rewr.. read more  

A sharp walkthrough for JVM devs shipping aKotlin Spring Boot app on Kubernetes. It covers the full deployment arc, packaging with Docker, wiring upDeploymentandServicemanifests, and managing config withConfigMapsandSecrets. There's a cleanPostgreSQLintegration baked in. It even gets intoheader-base.. read more  

Docker just droppedKanvas, a new visual toy for building multi-cloud Kubernetes setups, without drowning in YAML. It bolts onto Docker Desktop and runs onMeshery. Drag and drop services into a topology, then bring them to life across AWS, GCP, or Azure. Mix inpolicy-driven validationandreal-time mut.. read more