Infrastructure & Security

Enhance your application’s reliability and performance with Gigalixir’s Dedicated Ingress solution. This guide explains how isolating your incoming traffic with dedicated load balancers and routers ensures consistent performance while providing static IP addresses for easier third-party integration and simplified apex domain registration. Learn about the flexibility of region-wide or per-application configurations and how to start your migration plan with our engineering team today.

Horizontal scaling with multiple replicas is a strategic necessity for maintaining a resilient, high-performance application. This guide explores how replicas provide automated failover, overloading protection, and increased bandwidth while diving into critical engineering considerations like RAM allocation per node and connection limits for external databases. Learn how to manage state across nodes using tools like Libcluster and how to scale your Gigalixir cluster instantly with a single CLI command to ensure a robust, responsive experience for your users.

Boost your application’s performance and reliability by leveraging Read Replicas, now available on Gigalixir’s Standard Tier. This guide explains how to offload resource-intensive analytical and read-heavy queries from your primary database to improve response times and prevent system overloads. Learn how to implement horizontal scaling with a single command using the Gigalixir CLI 1.8.0 or the Console to create a more efficient, responsive user experience without the Enterprise price tag.

We are making production-grade reliability more accessible by bringing High Availability (HA) to our Standard database tier. This guide explores why HA is essential for a seamless user experience,offering automated failover, data replication, and minimized downtime to protect your revenue and reputation. How to enable this 'always-on' protection for your Standard Tier database with a single CLI command to ensure your data remains secure and available, even during unexpected failures.

A technical post-mortem detailing the resolution of a certificate propagation issue that affected TLS renewals and issuance for US-Central-1 Google Cloud users in August 2022. Our investigation found that resource starvation in the propagation system delayed certificate updates for a subset of domains. To ensure continued security and uptime, we have implemented automated resource monitors to proactively signal and address scaling needs before they impact your production environments.

A dive into the resolution of 502 errors affecting US-Central-1 Google Cloud users. We identified and fixed a configuration bug where the ingress controller bypassed the Kubernetes service cluster IP in favor of individual Pod IPs, leading to traffic hitting inactive nodes during scaling.