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How DNS, caching, backups, cloud, performance and language models work underneath, with the sources used in each article.

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Published articles

Architecture, protection and performance, with the sources used in each article.

Performance goes far beyond the server

Origin response time is only one part of the experience. Network, critical resources, images, fonts, JavaScript and visual stability all count.

Backups that survive a disaster

A copy becomes a recovery strategy only when it sits outside the same failure domain, preserves versions and passes verified restoration exercises.

Caching with the right rules

Which responses may be reused, by whom, for how long and how to confirm that the stored copy is still valid.

DNS: the first milliseconds of a visit

Before opening a connection, the browser has to locate the service. Understanding resolution, caching, TTL and DNSSEC prevents delays and poorly planned changes.