Separating Database and Application Tiers for High Concurrency
Why running web servers, PHP/Node runtimes, and PostgreSQL/MySQL on a single virtual server leads to memory starvation during traffic spikes.
Practical engineering write-ups on Linux system administration, network architecture, and workload right-sizing.
Deep dives on Linux administration, database separation, and cloud networking architecture.
Checklists for perimeter defense, OS hardening, and identity access governance.
Techniques for diagnosing unneeded capacity, right-sizing instances, and reducing egress fees.
Practices for Docker builds, zero-downtime rolling deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.
Why running web servers, PHP/Node runtimes, and PostgreSQL/MySQL on a single virtual server leads to memory starvation during traffic spikes.
A practical engineering baseline: disabling password-based SSH authentication, configuring stateful nftables firewalls, and adjusting kernel sysctl parameters.
How to identify unattached persistent storage volumes, idle compute instances, and unneeded egress routing to reduce infrastructure expenditure.
A guide to orchestrating rolling updates across multiple backend instances behind a health-checking reverse proxy.