From: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
To: "Christopher Baines" <mail@cbaines.net>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Daniela Lura <danielaluraa@gmail.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:04:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgdvax6p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kqbjhv0.fsf@cbaines.net>
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Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Heya Danjela,
>>
>> Daniela Lura <danielaluraa@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Taking into consideration the suggestion made in this thread:
>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00096.html, my
>>> mentor, Christopher Baines suggested me to write a script that serves a
>>> search page for packages using the search functionality within the Guix
>>> Data Service,
>>> https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages?search_query=git&field=version&field=synopsis&after_name=&limit_results=100
>>> .
>>>
>>> The prototype page can be accessed through a test version of the Guix
>>> website that Chris deployed:
>>> http://guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search
>>
>> Cool! To be clear, guix-website-test actually makes a search query on a
>> Data Service instance, right? I guess that explains part of the
>> slowness, but maybe we could tweak nginx to keep search results in cache
>> for a few hours.
>>
>> Florian raised an important issue regarding the possibility of denial of
>> service. Ideas on how to mitigate that, either in the Data Service, or
>> nginx at guix.gnu.org?
>
> On this point specifically, I've used the rate limiting functionality in
> NGinx before, and that's probably a low cost approach to guarding
> against this. It's not going to stop a DDOS, but might help avoid lots
> of requests from one IP address causing load issues.
We also have Varnish, a web caching proxy that excels at tasks like
this, and is used by some CDNs such as Fastly. I'm happy to help write
a configuration if that is desired.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-13 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-08 18:49 [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages Daniela Lura
2020-07-08 20:31 ` Cook, Malcolm
2020-07-08 21:00 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-07-10 10:15 ` Daniela Lura
2020-07-09 0:53 ` Bengt Richter
2020-07-09 6:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-07-10 10:26 ` Daniela Lura
2020-07-09 7:47 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-07-09 8:50 ` zimoun
2020-07-09 9:32 ` YP
2020-07-13 13:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-13 14:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-13 20:10 ` Christopher Baines
2020-07-13 22:04 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2020-07-14 13:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-14 19:47 ` Marius Bakke
2020-09-06 14:19 ` Daniela Lura
2020-09-07 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-08 16:50 ` Daniela Lura
2020-09-08 16:38 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-07-14 9:19 ` Daniela Lura
2020-07-14 13:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-11-05 16:53 Luis Felipe
2022-11-05 18:53 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-05 19:59 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-09 16:43 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-13 8:46 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-15 13:30 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-16 16:25 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-16 18:46 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-16 16:32 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-16 18:50 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-18 19:03 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-19 10:51 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-19 12:03 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-19 13:53 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-21 11:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-19 16:07 ` John Kehayias
2022-11-19 16:13 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 20:30 ` John Kehayias
2022-11-20 22:33 ` zimoun
2022-11-21 8:57 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 17:03 ` zimoun
2022-11-22 8:23 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-11-21 13:21 ` Christopher Baines
2022-11-21 19:11 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-21 19:00 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-21 20:42 ` Julien Lepiller
2022-11-07 9:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
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