Scaling News from Around the Web – June
- Inside Google's Data Centers
- Backblaze Open Source Erasure
- The Growth Behine Tune
- Nginx Thread Pools
- Gor - Replay HTTP Traffic
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Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating system–level virtualization on Linux. Docker uses resource isolation features of the Linux kernel such as cgroups and kernel namespaces to allow independent “containers” to run within a single Linux instance, avoiding the overhead of starting virtual machines. Wikipedia
For a fun weekend project, we decided to roll our own CDN using Go GeoDNS, DigitalOcean, Docker and Nginx. Read more