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Bluesky: The Decentralized Social Media App with 30 Million Users

ByteByteGo

Bluesky is the relatively new social media platform in town. It is a decentralized social media platform designed to offer users greater control, interoperability, and transparency compared to traditional, centralized social networks. For years, social media platforms have been controlled by large corporations.

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How Instagram Scaled Its Infrastructure To Support a Billion Users

ByteByteGo

Unlike other social media platforms at the time, Instagram focused exclusively on visual storytelling, making it an instant hit among smartphone users. The app was experiencing major scalability challenges, such as server overloads, database scaling issues, and limited engineering resources. 100 million media uploads per day.

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How Amazon S3 Stores 350 Trillion Objects with 11 Nines of Durability

ByteByteGo

S3 allows users to store any amount of data at any time, making it a foundational service for industries ranging from media and entertainment to finance and healthcare. Features like encryption (server-side and client-side), bucket policies, IAM roles, and access control lists (ACLs) ensure secure data storage.

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Make your apps truly interactive with Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit

CloudFaire

Developers already use Workers , Workers AI , and our WebRTC SFU and TURN services to build powerful apps without needing to think about coordinating compute or media services to be closest to their user. They built a developer experience layer that made complex media capabilities accessible.

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Paolo Maffezzoli posted an update: Unpatched PHP Voyager Flaws Leave Servers Open to One-Click […]

4sysops

Unpatched PHP Voyager Flaws Leave Servers Open to One-Click RCE Exploits Three significant security vulnerabilities have been found in the PHP package Voyager, which allow attackers to perform remote code execution on affected systems. These flaws, publicly disclosed on September 11, 2024, remain unpatched.

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Synology enters enterprise market with ActiveProtect

DCNN Magazine

Cost-effective backup ActiveProtect has been designed to protect everything in a single platform from devices, to Software-as-a-Service programmes, file servers and virtual machines. That is the rule that recommends having three copies of data, two different media and one off-site copy.

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Kentik Virtual Panel Series, Part 2: How Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media Are Supporting Remote Work and Digital Experience

Kentik

As our moderator, Kentik Co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman was joined by network leaders from Akamai, Uber and Verizon Media, namely: Christian Kaufmann, VP of Network Technology, Akamai. Igor Gashinsky, Chief Network Architect, VP, Verizon Media. Igor from Verizon Media said they’ve observed web traffic growth of about 30 percent.

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