Developer Series
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Tuning a proxy cache for hit rate, latency, and origin load
Turning on proxy caching is a one-click decision. Tuning it well is where the leverage actually shows up. A 60% hit rate cuts your origin load by more than half. An 85% hit rate cuts it by almost seven times. The difference between those two numbers is almost never about the cache itself — it's about how you sized it, what you keyed it on, and where you placed it relative to your other ingress policies.
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Securing your container: basic auth and IP rules
When you publish a container to the public internet, you usually want some control over who can reach it. A staging deployment shouldn't be open to crawlers and script kiddies. An internal admin panel shouldn't accept traffic from random IPs. A production API shouldn't be one zero-day away from total compromise just because the application library got patched late.
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Deploying a multi-pool Memcached setup on Bahriya
Memcached is one of those tools that does one thing and does it well — it caches objects in memory so your application does not hit the database on every request. On Bahriya, Memcached is a managed service that runs alongside your containers with project-private networking, so your cache is only accessible to the containers that need it.
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The edge container cloud — and why it matters
For years, the standard way to serve a global audience was simple: deploy your application to a single region and put a CDN in front of it. Static assets — images, scripts, fonts — got cached at edge nodes around the world. Dynamic requests travelled back to the origin, wherever that was.
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Deploying to 4 regions: Amazon ECS vs Bahriya
You have a containerised application. You want to deploy it to four regions — Europe, US East, US West, and Asia — with autoscaling, TLS, health checks, and DNS routing. This is one of the most common deployment scenarios for any application that serves a global audience.
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CDN-level speed with Memcached and GeoDNS
CDNs solve a simple problem: put content close to users. A request from Tokyo should not travel to Frankfurt to fetch a product image or a JSON payload that has not changed in hours. CDNs cache content at edge locations and serve it locally.