#scalability

Rad Web Hostingradwebhosting
2025-05-17

Comprehensive List of Top 10 Uses for Servers If you've ever wondered, "what are common use-cases for VPS servers?", you have come to the right place!

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QCon Software Conferencesqcon@techhub.social
2025-05-16

Scale smart, not just up!
Learn about longevity, clarity & change in software systems from experts at @aws, @MongoDB, @Vanguard & more at #InfoQDevSummit Boston (June 9-10). Level up your architecture.

🔗 Explore the agenda & register: bit.ly/4d9dMe1
#SoftwareArchitecture #Scalability #PlatformEngineering

QCon Software Conferencesqcon@techhub.social
2025-05-15

Navigate modern cloud complexities! ☁️ Learn from engineers at @CarGurus, @MongoDB & @Google at #InfoQDevSummit Boston (June 9-10) on reliability & scaling.

➡️ Get actionable insights: bit.ly/4m3yiR7
#SiteReliabilityEngineering #CloudInfra #Scalability

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-12

Ah yes, another from the esteemed wizards of academia: apparently, patches are the new tokens. 🙄🔍 In a thrilling twist, the Byte Latent Transformer promises to scale better, presumably until it topples over under the weight of its own self-importance. 🎩📚
arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871

Is Node.js the future of backend development, or just a beautifully wrapped grenade?

Lately, I see more and more backend systems, yes, even monoliths, built entirely in Node.js, sometimes with server-side rendering layered on top. These are not toy projects. These are services touching sensitive PII data, sometimes in regulated industries.

When I first used Node.js years ago, I remember:
• Security concepts were… let’s say aspirational.
• Licensing hell due to questionable npm dependencies.
• Tests were flaky, with mocking turning into dark rituals.
• Behavior of libraries changed weekly like socks, but more dangerous.
• Internet required to run a “local” build. How comforting.

Even with TypeScript, it all melts back into JavaScript at runtime, a language so flexible it can hang itself.

Sure, SSR and monoliths can simplify architecture. But they also widen the attack surface, especially when:
• The backend is non-compiled.
• Every endpoint is a potential open door.
• The system needs Node + a fleet of dependencies + a container + prayer just to run.

Compare that to a compiled, stateless binary that:
• Runs in a scratch container.
• Requires zero runtime dependencies.
• Has encryption at rest, in transit, and ideally per-user.
• Can be observed, scaled, audited, stateless and destroyed with precision.

I’ve shipped frontends that are static, CDN-delivered, secure by design, and light enough to fit on a floppy disk. By running them with Node, I’m loading gigabytes of unknown tooling to render “Hello, user”.

So I wonder:
Is this the future? Or am I just… old?

Are we replacing mature, scalable architectures with serverless spaghetti and 12-factor mayhem because “it works on Vercel”?

Tell me how you build secure, observable, compliant systems in Node.js.
Genuinely curious.
Mildly terrified and maybe old.

#NodeJS #BackendSecurity #SecureCoding #PII #Compliance #SoftwareArchitecture #ServerSideRendering #TypeScript #Java #Kotlin #Golang #Erlang #Ruby #Scalability #Observability #DevSecOps #LegacyVsModern #SecureByDesign #CompiledLanguages #CloudArchitecture #StatelessDesign #SecurityTheatre #TechSatire #LinkedInTechRant

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2025-04-28

#CaseStudy - Dive deep into #Slack's architectural evolution!

Ian Hoffman breaks down the journey from workspace-centric to Unified Grid, the scaling challenges, and Enterprise Grid complexities.

Learn from their significant architectural shift – Watch now: bit.ly/4jXATuh

📄 #transcript included

#SoftwareArchitecture #Scalability #Performance

Rad Web Hostingradwebhosting
2025-04-28

Comprehensive List of Top 10 Uses for Servers If you've ever wondered, "what are common use-cases for VPS servers?", you have come to the right place!

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Rad Web Hostingradwebhosting
2025-04-19

Comprehensive List of Top 10 Uses for Servers If you've ever wondered, "what are common use-cases for VPS servers?", you have come to the right place!

We have compiled a list of the top 10 uses for VPS servers, as observed by Rad Web Hosting staff, during the course of providing VPS hosting services since 2015.

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Rad Web Hostingradwebhosting
2025-04-19

Comprehensive List of Top 10 Uses for Servers If you've ever wondered, "what are common use-cases for VPS servers?", you have come to the right place!

We have compiled a list of the top 10 uses for VPS servers, as observed by Rad Web Hosting staff, during the course of providing VPS hosting services since 2015.

It should be noted that this compilation is not ...
Continued 👉 blog.radwebhosting.com/top-10-

2025-04-18

"Async PHP with Coroutines: Building Scalable Applications" will be Khushboo Verma's talk at phpday25.

#phpday25 #PHP #Coroutines #Scalability #OpenSource
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phpday - 22nd edition
The annual gathering for developers, professionals, and PHP enthusiasts.
The conference is powered by @grusp
📍Verona (Italy) | 📆 May 15-16, 2025
Tickets bit.ly/41J6UP3

Mayerfeld Consultingmayerfeld_consulting
2025-04-14

At Mayerfeld Consulting, we help businesses implement data-driven workflow optimization strategies that reduce inefficiencies and increase operational agility.

If bottlenecks are holding your business back, it’s time to rethink your processes.

What’s the biggest workflow challenge your team is facing right now?

Perry Allenperryallen
2025-04-11

🏘️🤯 Control THOUSANDS of properties? Sounds impossible, right? Not with the right systems! I'm breaking down a scalable strategy for managing massive real estate portfolios in my latest video. Think streamlined processes, smart automation, and a whole lot of leverage. Check it out and let me know your biggest property management headache! 👇 youtube.com/shorts/WUOClZHbT7Y

Perry Allenperryallen
2025-04-11

🏘️🤯 Control THOUSANDS of properties? Sounds impossible, right? Not with the right systems! I'm breaking down a scalable strategy for managing massive real estate portfolios in my latest video. Think streamlined processes, smart automation, and a whole lot of leverage. Check it out and let me know your biggest property management headache! 👇 youtube.com/shorts/WUOClZHbT7Y

Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:zirias@bsd.cafe
2025-04-11

First change since #swad 0.2 will actually be a (huge?) improvement to my #poser lib. So far, it was hardwired to use the good old #POSIX #select call. This is perfectly fine for handling around up to 100 (or at least less than 1000, YMMV) clients.

Some #select implementations offer defining the upper limit for checked file descriptors. Added support for that.

POSIX also specifies #poll, which has very similar #scalability issues, but slightly different. Added support for this as well.

And then, I went on to add support for the #Linux-specific #epoll and #BSD-specific #kqueue (#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, ...) which are both designed to *solve* any scalability issues 🥳

A little thing that slightly annoyed me about kqueue was that there's no support for temporarily changing the signal mask, so I had to do the silly dance shown in the screenshot. OTOH, it offers changing event filters and getting events in a single call, which I might try to even further optimize ... 😎

#C #coding

kqueue client code, manually relaxing the signal mask for just the single kevent() call waiting for new events.
Abstract Technology GmbHabstract_technology
2025-04-11

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