Talk Intermediate First Talk

Running a CDN for opensource software | mirror.albony.in

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Session Description

mirror.albony.in a student run service which provides mirrors for various open-source projects and Linux distributions. Currently, Albony operates mirror nodes in Delhi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Chennai, Aizawl and Hyderabad

Albony is one of the only few such mirrors in India serving more than 40,000 users daily. The project gets more than 600TB traffic / month, and is growing year on year.

It is an official mirror for many projects and Linux distributions, This talk will highlight the architecture and challenges involved with running such a service.

Key Takeaways

What are mirrors and why are the required?
Journey from the start
QUIC vs TCP
TCP Congestion control protocols and network optimisation
Automation - NixOS and Ansible
Monitoring - logs and stats
Layer 8 challenges - Convincing ISPs

References

https://mirror.albony.in/

Session Categories

Technology architecture

Story of a FOSS project - from inception to growth

Which track are you applying for?

Main track

Speakers

Shrirang Kahale Maintainer | Albony Networks

Shrirang Kahale is a 18 year old student who started running mirror.albony.in 4 years ago.

He's deeply interested in Networking, DevOps and RF. He believes curiosity is the boon of life and always keeps learning one-thing or another.

Shrirang Kahale

Albert Sebastian Node host

Albert Sebastian hosts MAA and HYD node for mirror.albony.in and is working on a monitoring solution to aggregate logs and statistics from all nodes.

Albert Sebastian

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