So far I’ve been following recommendations from this person: https://old.reddit.com/r/NewMaxx/comments/16xhbi5/ssd_guides_resources_ssd_help_post_your_questions/

lemmy.ml is hosted in EU, and lemmynsfw.com uses CloudFlare, which operates in EU. Worst case, issue a GDPR request to both.

I’m surprised federation isn’t based on asymmetric cryptography. Let the public/private keys identify instances, as opposed to domains that risk being blocked by governments or bought by malicious third parties if the instance owner forgets to prolong it.

With that, implementing a change in domain names would be simple.

I found it crazy useful to study old, established, mature technologies, like relational databases, storage, low-level networking stack, optimizing compilers, etc. Much more valuable than learning the fad of the year. For example, consider studying internals of Postgresql if you’re using it.

Storj does it at 7 USD/TB. And there are providers that technically provide unlimited bandwidth, like Hetzner’s dedicated servers; they still have some abuse limits, but even working within the limits should make it much cheaper. This means custom engineering though.

I’ve seen this text when it was published, and it was pretty eye-opening at the time. I liked it so much I’ve set a quarterly reminder to go back to it and review where did I manage to improve.

We found that flakiness of e2e tests is usually caused by using libraries, frameworks and devops tools that were not designed for being integrated in e2e tests. So we try to get rid of them, or at least wrap them with devops magic. This requires a skilled devops team and buy-in from management.

At some point we were also solving the issue by having dedicated human reviews of e2e failures, it’s easy to train a junior QA engineer to have most false positives quickly retried.

But we would never give up on e2e.

Indeed. Most of the web is broken under GDPR’s privacy requirements.

GDPR believes an IP address is a private information. This can be used to mount a legal attack on EU-hosted lemmy instances.