CDN, Website Security, DDoS Protection, Load Balancing

and Lifehacker – Tech notes | Hightrack A few days ago we got featured in LifeHacker. It was very exciting. We are very grateful for them talking about us but it was also kind of scary: we had been reading about other people getting their service beaten down and definitely did not want that to happen to us or to our users. Luckily, they warned us a few days in advance so we could get ready. It all starts with preparation for scale. All the pieces are upgradeable and decoupable; we can move the messaging queue to a new, beefier server if the need arises, or serve the browser app from a different server than the API. We thought most people would visit just our landing page, maybe browse the static site a bit, and a smaller percentage of the visits would actually go to the app and set up an account. So, first thing we had to do was selecting a DNS provider. After setting up the DNS, we started surveying CDN providers to offset the static site and the blog to them. Lessons learned: A CDN can save your life for cheap. On Track!

Welcome to Takipi Track exceptions, logged errors and performance problems Prioritize quickly: Is it coming from recently modified code? 'Replay' each exception, as if you were there See all the methods, across different threads, which were called before the exception. Get all the variable values as they were in each step.

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