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NETWORKING

Rate limiting at the edge to keep services healthy

A single misbehaving client can take down a shared service. We push rate limits to the edge using token buckets per key, so abusive traffic is shed before it ever reaches your origin.

Sep 14, 2021 · 1 min read
Load balancing across availability zones
NETWORKING

Load balancing across availability zones

Spreading traffic across zones keeps a single failure from taking you offline. We cover health-aware load balancing, connection draining during a zone outage, and how we weight pools so capacity follows demand.

Sep 14, 2021 · 3 min read
Secrets management and credential rotation across a fleet
SECURITY

Secrets management and credential rotation across a fleet

Long-lived API keys are the quiet liability in most infrastructures. Here is how we moved every service to short-lived, automatically rotated credentials without a single outage.

May 20, 2026 · 1 min read
A multi-region failover runbook you can actually trust
PLATFORM

A multi-region failover runbook you can actually trust

A failover plan you have never rehearsed is a hope, not a plan. Here is the runbook we test every month so a region loss is boring instead of terrifying.

Apr 26, 2026 · 1 min read
Securing service-to-service traffic with mutual TLS
SECURITY

Securing service-to-service traffic with mutual TLS

Inside the mesh, every call should be authenticated and encrypted. We cover issuing short-lived certificates, rotating them automatically, and enforcing mTLS without adding latency to the request path.

Sep 14, 2021 · 2 min read
Feature flags: shipping safely behind toggles
PLATFORM

Feature flags: shipping safely behind toggles

Deploying code and releasing a feature should be two separate events. A flag system lets you ship continuously and release deliberately.

Apr 2, 2026 · 1 min read

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Compute

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Databases

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Networking

Anycast, load balancing, and private links.

Security

Encryption, compliance, and access control.

AI / ML

GPUs, inference, and model deployment.

Observability

Metrics, tracing, and logging at scale.

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