Stripe Is My DNS Provider Now: When Good APIs Meet Bad Ideas
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Stripe metadata is great for config, entitlements, and… DNS? This experiment takes one good API feature and stretches it into the worst possible infrastructure layer.
Mattias open sourced a small Caddy module that caches get_certificate HTTP lookups, avoiding a backend fetch on every TLS handshake. A nice write-up on the problem, the design, and the trade-offs. Read more
A good write-up on the ghost domain problem in DNS: domains removed from a registry can still appear healthy to uptime checkers because recursive resolvers keep stale delegations warm. The Oh Dear team explains the Read more…