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What is best practice design for internal traffic between microservices?

I have two PHP written microservices A & B. Endpoints are a.example.com and b.example.com. Both services need to be public accessible. In addition, service B makes a lot of curl requests to a.example.com while processing. Both services are running…
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Network (firewall) architecture for a LARGE corporation

I am wondering how many of you who work for LARGE companies have a network architecture that enforces the use of three-separate firewalls to get at the data. In other words: Separation of external (internet) parties and a presentation tier by a…
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Serving multiple web-service instances

We're building an API-based web solution on Python which is going to be delivered to individual customers. Each customer is going to have a separate dataset. Currently, it's not a problem to deploy an instance of the application + database for each…
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Architecture and Virtualization

I'm trying to build an architecture with Virtual Servers for J2EE Web applications Hosting. I've no experience in virtualisation. I currently have 1 server whith Apache/Jboss/Postgresq/Proftpd installed and I want to design something where services…
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Best infrastructure configuration for application hosting (IIS/MSSQL)? Bare Metal, Virtualize?

We're a small consulting shop that hosts some public facing websites and web applications for clients (apps we've either written or inherited). Our strength lies in coding, not necessarily in server management. However a managed hosting solution…
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Firewall with layer 3 switch or without it?

I am trying to make a simple network architecture for a small company. One of the sites is built of a firewall (to create a DMZ, to make the VPN between the sites) and three switches, like in link below. There are workstations connected to each of…
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CMS Architecture - Synchronizing Dev/Test/Staging environments

We have a code, content and DB flow that follows a typical pattern: Dev->Build->Staging->Prod The kicker is that the client is editing and publishing content only in Prod. So our current strategy is to attempt to do a full content sync Prod->Staging…
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SQL Server 2000 HIGH CPU Usage with BusinessObjects reports (unsolvable?)

I have one of those weird questions, those ones that are nearly unsolvable (the only way to really solve them is to throw out the technology and buy new ones). I've had a number of experts (about 10 consultants) in to come and troubleshoot my issue…
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guidelines for large Unix data center setup?

Are there any blogs/ recommended readings on how to setup/configure/manage large ( 500 + ) unix servers in a single / multiple data center ? I am trying to understand best practices, network design suggestions as well. Thanks
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Win 2008 single server development environment (architecture)

I have a few questions about a test development environment that I’m setting up on this server: Intel Core i7-920 Quadcode incl. Hyper Threading 8 GB DDR3 RAM (triple-channel) 2x 750 GB SATA-II (probably software RAID 1) The server is going to…
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IPC between multiple processes on multiple servers

Let's say you have 2 servers each with 8 CPU cores each. The servers each run 8 network services that each host an arbitrary number of long-lived TCP/IP client connections. Clients send messages to the services. The services do something based…
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Why is the Kubernetes scheduler a separate process from the controller manager?

This is a question about the design of Kubernetes, I don't have a specific technical problem to solve, but I'm trying to understand the thoughts behind some of its architecture. All explanations about Kubernetes' control plane that I've seen mention…
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NFS to share FTP server storage

We use FTP server to distribute a lot of files.Hard links are used extensively as we have a lot of identical files named differently. We also have a secondary FTP/WWW server as failover for the primary one.Files are rscynced via ssh from the…
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How to get multiple DNS Geo balancing entry points

I am facing a problem. I will set up a CDN with multiple dedicated servers in multiple zones (Asia, US, Eu), and I will set up an entry point with Nginx proxy with geoip routing. But with this solution I just move the problem higher. Because this…
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Is there a multi-zone multi-service global dashboard for AWS?

Is there any easy way to watch the list of all products in AWS for a single account? I'm currently manually making a "for each geographical zone" "for each service" see it's dashboard, so I can disover I have 4 EC2 instances in Ireland and 2 MySQL…
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