open-source non-profit search engine for shadow libraries, like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library

🔍 Moteur de recherche des bibliothèques clandestines : livres, journaux, BD, magazines. ⭐️ Bibliothèque Z-Library, Bibliothèque Genesis, Sci-Hub. ⚙️ Entièrement résilient grâce à un code et à des données open source. ❤️ Faites passer le mot : tout le monde est le bienvenu ici !

Technical write-up on how they setup this: https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html

Let’s start with our tech stack. It is deliberately boring. We use Flask, MariaDB, and ElasticSearch. That is literally it. Search is largely a solved problem, and we don’t intend to reinvent it.

Source: @sebsauvage

tl;dr :

• Start using [your software] in production in a non-critical capacity (by sending a small percentage of traffic to it, on a less critical service, etc)
• try to have each incident only once
• Understand what is ok to break and isn’t

For example, with Kubernetes:

• ok to break:
  • any stateless control plane component can crash or be cycled out or go down for 5 minutes at any time
  • kubernetes networking can break as much as it wants because we decided not to use it to start
• not ok to break
  • for us, if etcd goes down for 10 minutes, that’s ok
  • containers not starting or crashing on startup
  • containers not having access to the resources they need
  • pods being terminated unexpectedly by Kubernetes

With Envoy, the breakdown is pretty different: