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To design and develop an interactive globe I always curious how those 3d interactive models are built-in JavaScript. This article by a Stripe engineer just answers that. We will learn how to draw the surface with dot, group the country, animate it and make it fast via GPU WebGL. Short article but I learn a lot.

The secret life of DNS packets: investigating complex networks DNS provides a way to look up a host’s address by an easy-to-remember name. In this post, Stripe describe how they monitor their DNS systems and how they used an array of tools to investigate and fix an unexpected spike in DNS errors that they encountered recently.

Scaling your API with rate limiters An API is usually used in a stateless manner, so it’s more difficult to protect from rate limiting. In a normal web app, we will have user session and a CSRF token check before it’s executed. With an API, it is a bit different, a client can misbehave and send lots of unwanted requests, for instance. In this...