April 09, 2015 6:32PM
Scaling out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics using CitusDB
Analytics
SQL
Postgres
Kafka
LUA
DDoS
When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits....
March 05, 2014 12:00AM
It's Go Time on Linux
Linux
Go
DDoS
Google
Attacks
Some interesting changes related to timekeeping in the upcoming Go 1.3 release inspired us to take a closer look at how Go programs keep time with the help of the Linux kernel. Timekeeping is a complex topic and determining the current time isn’t as simple as it might seem at first glance....