Forward and Reverse Proxies: Routing, Trust, and Use Cases
Learn how forward and reverse proxies handle HTTP traffic, CONNECT tunnels, TLS termination, caching, routing, trusted headers, and production failures.
Posts tagged with #infrastructure
Database Backup Strategies: Full, Incremental, and PITR
Learn database backup strategies: full, incremental, and differential backups. Point-in-time recovery, WAL archiving, and RTO/RPO planning.
Database Capacity Planning: A Practical Guide
Plan for growth before you hit walls. This guide covers growth forecasting, compute and storage sizing, IOPS requirements, and cloud vs on-prem decisions.
Connection Pooling: HikariCP, pgBouncer, and ProxySQL
Learn connection pool sizing, HikariCP, pgBouncer, and ProxySQL, timeout settings, idle management, and when pooling helps or hurts performance.
Encryption at Rest: TDE, Key Management, and Performance
Learn Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), application-level encryption, and key management using AWS KMS and HashiCorp Vault. Performance overhead explained.
Failover Automation
Automatic failover patterns. Health checks, failure detection, split-brain prevention, and DNS TTL management during database failover.
Pulumi: Infrastructure as Actual Code
Use Pulumi to define infrastructure using real programming languages—TypeScript, Python, Go, C#—enabling loops, conditionals, and full IDE support for IaC.
Terraform: Declarative Infrastructure Provisioning
Learn Terraform from the ground up—state management, providers, modules, and production-ready patterns for managing cloud infrastructure as code.
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Roadmap: From Containers to Cloud-Native Deployments
Master DevOps practices with this comprehensive learning path covering Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native deployment strategies.
Advanced Kubernetes: Controllers, Operators, RBAC, Production Patterns
Explore Kubernetes custom controllers, operators, RBAC, network policies, storage classes, and advanced patterns for production cluster management.