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

Approved
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
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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.

 https://x.com/albonycal
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.

https://github.com/alou-S
Albert Sebastian

Reviews

I think this talk will be useful for all to know about the challenges in hosting the mirror. It would be interesting to know the network optimisation done as the scale of the project is big.

Reviewer #1 Approved
The fact that albony is a student run project is a cherry on the cake. Just great
Reviewer #2 Approved

Very cool topic with real challenges and opportunity to share real experiences

Reviewer #3 Approved

thank you

Reviewer #4 Approved

A look into the challenges of operating a project with huge demand

Reviewer #5 Approved

This is a critical piece of FOSS infrastructure and is great to see a network being expanded in India. I personally have many issues connecting to mirrors that are too far away and latency and bandwidth are too low.

I think many people would be interested to hear the stories of working within India to try new things.

Reviewer #6 Approved