There are a lot of posts around (even on our website) that will be more than happy to tell you why you should move to the cloud; be it scaling, security, believing it will solve all your problems, it’s good for you resume or FOMO, you name it. In this post we’re not...
While following FOSDEM online for 2 years gets you all the information on FOSS you might need, we can all agree it's not the same experience. Here is a question for the philosophers among you: "If you're not queuing half an hour in the rain for a waffle were you part...
If you want to keep your servers extra safe or you don't have a publicly routable IP address (CGNAT being a pain for homelabers or IPv6 not being implemented because of $reason), you may want to consider using Cloudflare tunnels. In this post we're going to see how to set up...
Great food, excellent wine and a general strike of the public transportation system on the day you need to get home. Truly, the French experience. About HAProxyConf 2022 If you’re wondering what we were doing in France, than you have not been following our social media. Shame on you. This past week, Paris was...
You wrote your playbook, congratulations. Unless you're a brave hero that will check if the playbook works correctly in production you figure out it might be wise to check it in a testing environment first. You spin up a VM on your computer or somewhere in the cloud, run your tests,...
From our blog post history you might think that Puppet is the only configuration management tool we use. While I don't blame you for thinking that, you'd be surprised to find out that this it not true :) . Other than Puppet, we recently started to use Ansible as well and I'd...
It's a well-known fact that there are two difficult problems in computer science: naming things cache invalidation off by one error In this post, we're going to talk about the first one, cache invalidation. Not a long time ago, we got a support request from one of our client's developers with the following issue: We deployed...
As discussed in a previous post, we at Sysbee love HAProxy, and we're excited when new functionalities are added. HAProxy 2.1 introduced the ability to proxy requests directly to an FastCGI application, eliminating the need to pass the request to a web server to do the same thing. In this post, we're...
Every website can be categorized as either static or dynamic. In this post, we’re going to define a dynamic website as one that needs server-side processing to function, while a static website as one that serves the same content for all users. Another way of looking at it is that...
