GATEkeeper

Inspiration

A lot of sites during huge crowd surge crash, for me particularly the inspiration comes from, when a student tries to access their scorecard, result, admit card but has to wait hours because the site crashed, which causes a lot of inconvenience and needs to be resolved.

What it does?

Just as the name and tagline suggests it creates a virtual waiting room so the official site servers facing crowd could have time to access the data and work efficiently.

How it does?

It replaces the main domain name and takes all the entries of the clients site, so that our servers face the crowd surge and absorb it. Then let the people access the site, so release a controlled amount of people so that the site can handle and execute the desired work. So basically it acts as a reverse proxy platform.

What about the privacy and sensitivity of the content the client handles?

Since our job includes creating a waiting room we do not use any data that is sensitive and actively resolve one of the biggest problems that major sites face at affordable rates. Its a zero data risk model.

Algorithm

User ➜ GATEkeeper ➜ Queue (if server is busy) ➜ Release users one by one ➜ Client website

What's next for GATEkeeper?

This is just the beginning. GATEkeeper is our first step towards solving large-scale infrastructure problems that affect millions of users every day. In the future, we intend to build more solutions that make essential digital services reliable, accessible, and affordable for everyone.

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