Tag: Baseline

The Bergall and the Baseline

When the fishing stops the internet takes over. In the Northeast, winter drives us anglers indoors and with computer instead of rod-and-reel we bounce the sinkers of our minds over the depths of our pastime. Tackle is browsed, trips are planned, and the sites of the few “open” boats stil...

Ultimate Baseline GKE cluster, Pt 2

In the previous article I demonstrated how to setup a baseline cluster with GKE that has private subnet and least-privilege service account. I also covered some basic tests that can be used to demo or troubleshoot cluster features. In this article, I will show a robust statefu...

Baseline System Design ??? Databases, Part 1/?

Last time I wrote about Facebook fanout, but got bogged down in trying to figure out what Facebook actually did. A requirement for Facebook is that users can publish posts; another requirement is that users can receive posts (“news”). We can implement this with the push/fanout-on-write a...