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Derrick Wippler
Software Developer at Mailgun by Sinch
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Architecture efficiency with containers
Why is a container such an inexpensive element to run within your system architecture? What makes a container so much more efficient than a virtual machine? Why should we...
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GroupCache: The superior Golang cache
Golang cache makes distributed caching and synchronization simple and easy to deploy with GroupCache. But why is this the superior tool? And what problems does it solve?...
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Devgun: Creating development environments with Kubernetes
When we first approached the problem of creating local development environments, we reached for common tools like vagrant. But as...
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How we realized a 30x performance improvement in MongoDB read preference
You know what they say…the more redundant you are, the more redundant you are. Replica sets are database processes that provide high availability and reduce server failover...
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Gubernator: Cloud-native distributed rate limiting for microservices
Today, Mailgun is excited to opensource Gubernator, a high performance distributed rate-limiting microservice. What does Gubernator...
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