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networking

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2026-09-20Taking over 330 GB a day of uncompressed HTML off the billEvery page left AWS at full size, at $0.09 a GB. One gzip block at the gateway, then three lines in the app.8 min

2026-09-13Tracing 200 GB a day to one Discord intentThe NAT gateways were processing 216 GB a day, almost all of it arriving from the internet, and nothing explained it. The answer was one flag in a Discord client.7 min

2026-09-06Moving MongoDB off the NAT gatewayThe database traffic was going out over the public internet, and the NAT gateway charged for every byte of it.7 min