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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • To explain how HAproxy and competing tools solve this:

    Two servers are prepared to be the single reverse proxy, but one is active. They constantly communicate with a “heartbeat”. When the active one fails to send a heartbeat, the secondary executes the steps to become the active primary. When the primary’s heart starts beating again, it becomes active again.

    So there can be a few seconds of downtime, but the failover is automatic.






  • Part of the app resides on the GitHub infrastructure, where GitHub stores, processes and displays results. So their costs are not zero.

    But GitHub could take a “tax the rich” approach to pricing by charging enterprise customers more for self-hostingand leave it free for others.

    A lot of open source is funded like that— most funding for a project comes from a very few companies and everything else uses it free or for very low donations or costs.














  • A floppy disk is fine, just like Photoshop uses terms like dodge and burn, references to obsolete dark room methods, like cutting and “pasting” were literally how some layout projects worked.

    Referencing the last physical incarnation of saving a file seems fitting!