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How to scale out WSGI servers

If I had a web application with a Flask/Django backend, I could use a single host to run both the WSGI server and the nginx web server/reverse proxy. Nginx would handle incoming requests, serving ...
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Experimental setup of PostgresXL on Kubernetes with Local volumes

I'm making a Gedankenexperiment about deploying PostgresXL on Kubernetes (k8s) where each datanode uses local (Directly Attached) storage. Imagine we have the following nodes: 2x highend machines ...
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Localized database for customers

The company I work for, has just moved to AWS - and currently they have one very large central database with the instance currently located in America. However, one of their clients has requested ...
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Firebird horizontally scaling using containers

I am trying to setup a firebird server within K8s and using docker containers. This has worked well with using Azure Files as a persistent volume storage, however when I try scaling past 1, there are ...
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Kubernetes scales on same node

I installed traefik via Helm. Then I scaled it with kubectl scale --replicas=2 deployment traefik -n traefik Now I have two pods running on the same node, despite there is a second node that is up ...
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Nginx with docker load balancing app server (php)

I haven't found an solution so far, so I'm asking here: This is the situation I'm locking an solution for: We are planing an architecture that contains the following components Docker Container (...
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AWS ECS scaling with custom load balancer

I am currently using AWS Elastic Container Service. It is running with a HAProxy server acting as our load balancer, along with a lambda that acts as a service discovery mechanism for the servers. Our ...
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Using HAProxy for syslog traffic at scale

I have an environment that generates a frankly ludicrous amount of Syslog traffic - this is mostly due to a culture of leaving debug-level logging on in production applications (and changing this ...
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Do slow nodes bottleneck a Galera Cluster?

Let's say I have a 5 node cluster, with 3 SSD RAID 10 nodes and a 2 SSD RAID 1 nodes. Will the RAID 1 nodes slow down the entire network? How do the Galera cluster writes work? Does it have to wait ...
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Configuring Redis for a read heavy application

Redis connection timeout even after upgrading to elasticache m4.xlarge We are facing connection timeout.Our cache size is hardly 1.5Gb.We have been using m4.large instance and there was around 150-200 ...
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Advice about scaling out IIS and SQL Server 2014 on Windows Server 2012R2

We are running a dual processor server E5-2630 V3 / 64 GB RAM with Windows Server 2012 R2, this server has IIS and SQL Server 2014 installed, only one web service is running to serve a mobile ...
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Horizontal Versus Verticale Scaling for Large Scale RoR Application (High CPU and Memory Usage)

We are launching a high demand (several hundred simultaneous users) Ruby on Rails application and we are trying to determine the best way to scale. Currently, we have a setup that follows this ...
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Scaling Rails 2.x application with more app servers

I'm thinking of a setup for our rather popular website to be able to scale on the CPU side of things. We are running quite a few CPU intensive image conversion jobs at random times (user input) and ...
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How to Plan for scale on my rackspace cloud server

I currently have a couple of cloud servers on Rackspace For application NGINX+PHP+Memcached+APC 2GB instance For Mysql Database 1GB instance Our site at the moment is not very heavy in terms of ...
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live coverage setup .. need advice

i plan to live blog from a show and expect atleast 5-10K users on the live blog I have setup 2 servers live.domain.com with wordpress running apache and nginx proxy to serve images (1024MB RAM ...
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What is going on when multiple requests are made to a host?

This is a very basic question about the mechanics of computers. What are some of the common ways that a host handles multiple requests during the code execution phase for applications with millions of ...
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User account affects screen scaling

I have an Azure VM with a couple of local accounts. If I use MSTSC to connect and login with account1 then all is good. If I login with account2 then the scaling is messed up and text is so small it's ...
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