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  • Cloud Engine and SSL

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    Andrew
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    Yesterday, I spent a lot of time setting up byte64.com, particularly trying to setup HTTPS and connecting it to a Google Compute Engine Machine. I learned lots and suffered just as much. I started with a single E2 compute engine VM and had Google Cloud install a wordpress service on it. From there, I looked…

  • Building an SSTable

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    Andrew
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    SSTables are a critical piece of technology that holds up the modern web. It’s the basis for most modern databases, search backends and many other technologies. What it provides is a reasonably fast way to perform lookups in large datasets. SSTables are sorted string tables meaning both our lookup keys and the resulting values are…