Currently people can access FTP list and download resources hosted on FTP servers in Chrome through FTP URLs, but this may not work anymore in the near future. In a post published by Chrome engineers, there is a plan to deprecate FTP support in Chrome version 82.The major motivation for this deprecation is that Chrome doesn't have an encrypted FTP connection support(FTPs), this raises security risk of downloading resources over FTP. Since users can access FTP URLs and download resources, there is no encryption of the data which indicates any sensitive information would be exposed to middle man...

Nowadays, Redis has become one of the most popular cache solution in the Internet industry. Although relational database systems (SQL) bring many awesome properties such as ACID, the performance of the database would degrade under high load in order to maintain these properties.In order to fix this problem, many companies & websites have decided to add a cache layer between the application layer (i.e., the backend code which handles the business logic) and the storage layer (i.e., the SQL database). This cache layer is usually implemented using an in-memory cache. This is because, as state...

It recently troubles me that my GKE cluster is managing more and more resources and causing difficulties in maintenance, one of which involves how to delete resources properly.Next, I will explain step by step the difficulties I encountered in my work and how I finally used the combination of bash commands and kubectl to implement the edition of Kubernetes objects through one-line command.In generalThe following are the basic operations that almost every Kubernetes user takes. Check 👉 the cheatsheet if you’re not familiar with the process.Delete a single resource throu...

Redis is a high-performance, in-memory key-value database. According to official test reports, it can support around 100,000 QPS (queries per second) on a single machine. However, Redis uses a single-threaded architecture in its design.Why does Redis still have such high performance with a single-threaded design? Wouldn't it be better to use multiple threads for concurrent request processing?In this article, let's explore why Redis has a single-threaded architecture and still maintains its speed. The focus is on the following four aspects:Data storage in memoryEfficient data structuresSingle-t...

When a web application is deployed on KUbernetes, to access the application, there must be some set up needs to be done so that external users can access the resource within the Kubernetes clusters. IN this post, we will walk through different ways to access application from outside.Before exploring different ways, let's set up a simple nginx eb application which will just serve the nginx welcome message when loading.# deployment.yamlapiVersion: apps/v1kind: Deploymentmetadata: name: nginx-deploymentspec: selector: matchLabels: app: nginx replicas: 2 # tells deployment to run 2 pods...

Google has announced its plan to block mixed content downloads in Chrome in February 2020 and now the day to block mixed content downloads is coming soon as we are nearing October when Chrome 86 is supposed to be released.What is mixed content downloads? According to Google, it is non-HTTPS downloads started on secure pages. For example, if you access a page called https://example.com/download, and in this page, there is a download link to http://download.example.com/something, this download link will not work.This is a security measure from Google to improve security of downloa...

by authorThe command-line tool kubectl is indispensable when using Kubernetes. You need it to query related Pod and Service information both in developing or performing some maintenance operations, such as events, scale, rolling update, etc.However, when using kubectl, there are many inconveniences. Though Kubernetes is officially maintaining kubectl¹, and you can submit the problems, improvement, and even PR in its Github Issues, you still have to wait long before its release.The most common solution is Kubectl-Plugin Pattern²Plugins extend kubectl with new sub-commands, allowing fo...

As a high-performance in-memory database, Redis is widely used in current mainstream distributed architecture systems. To improve system fault tolerance, using multiple instances of Redis is also inevitable, but the complexity is much higher than that of a single instance. This article mainly introduces the four deployment modes of Redis and their advantages and disadvantages.StandaloneStandalone mode is to install a Redis, start it, and business connects to it and that's all. The specific installation and startup steps are not repeated here. Standalone mode is also used in many scenarios, suc...