Matt Chesler

Matt Chesler

New York, NY •
2 posts •
Tech

Scaling Past a Billion - HAProxy, Varnish, and Connection Tracking

In our environment, we are routinely handling 20,000 connections per second and frequently bursting past 30,000 connections per second. We use HAProxy and Varnish to power this traffic, but they aren't without their quirks.

  • Matt Chesler
    Matt Chesler
3 min read
Tech

Fishing for Insight in a Sea of Logs

Like any reasonably sized engineering organization, the systems and applications comprising our environment are generating thousands of log entries every second. To make sense of the noise, we aggregate those logs to a central location for search and analysis.

  • Matt Chesler
    Matt Chesler
2 min read
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