dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one

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i336_ · 2016-01 · Recommendation

I discovered a moderately old video from CloudFlare hiding in there, and had a rather big TIL moment. It's one thing to read "LuaJIT is one of the fastest dynamic languages" etc blah blah on [LINK] ... ...it's quite another to learn that EVERY SINGLE CLOUDFLARE REQUEST - all 4 million/sec of them - goes through a LuaJIT-based attack detection system. Oh. Video: [VIDEO] (from [LINK] ) Found in the linked thread here: [LINK]

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exikyut · 2018-06 · Reference

> Even putting aside that the computer tech part of the business isn't their core competency, custom hardware is hard. Hmmm. Good point. (Maybe I scared OP away, heh.) > Is there an example of any large company, other than Google, who has mastered this? Well, I certainly don't know. I've heard Cloudflare gets their systems made, for some definition of "from scratch", by Quanta. Presumably there's a bit of a decision-making process in there, and presumably Quanta handles everything related to the "why is the devkit sample broken again #51383" side of things and ships a more or less finished product (maybe even with finished enclosures). My reference point for this knowledge is [VIDEO] (2015). Regarding SAS, maybe past a certain ordering quantity (or anything similar that would reveal a massive operation) the market would expect certain behavior like requesting value-adds, ordering with only one supplier, or other things that would generate lock-in. I of course have absolutely no idea [if this sort of thinking is reasonable]. Your points about commodity at scale sound quite reasonable. (You clearly have more experience than I do, which is kind of zero, heh.) As for suspicion about summaries and conclusions, well, (tangential example) the radial graph on [LINK] (the one from Forrester) doesn't show GitHub :D Yeah, building own hardware is sadly still within the realm of over-specialization at this point. I guess this is because 4+-layer PCB printing is still eye-watering so the

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Artemis2 · 2017-03 · Reference

For reference, two years ago Cloudflare was serving more than three million requests per second[0]. I can only imagine this figure has gone up a lot. 0: [VIDEO]

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