Source code hosting site GitLab is having a bad day after a sysadmin’s mistake turned into finding 5 different backup systems had all failed. They have a live Google doc with details (and even a live video stream) about the incident. They are being very transparent and this is a great reminder to check your own backup solutions.

OpenWhisk is an open source serverless platform from IBM available in both hosted and on-premise forms.

The ‘Cache-Control: Immutable’ header tells the browser an asset will never change and so doesn't need to be reloaded. Ideal if you use a filename based versioning approach.

The Imperva Incapsula Bot Traffic Report is an ongoing statistical study of the bot traffic landscape. Our latest report examined 16.7+ billion visits to 100,000 randomly-selected domains on the Incapsula network to compile the research on bot activity.

You can now test whether Google thinks your site is “mobile-friendly” via an API, allowing you to automate the process or add it to your CI.

The author takes a look at the most common Docker myths and tries to find the truth in them, as well as any solutions to be found.

A look at a new ‘micro-framework’ called Japronto that leans heavily on C and HTTP pipelining. Related Hacker News discussion as the numbers have been questioned.

Facebook has worked with browser vendors to significantly improve web page loading times, particularly by reducing the amount of cached asset revalidation requests.

Chrome now has new page reloading behavior which maximizes the reuse of cached resources and results in lower latency, power consumption, and data usage. Shift + Reload will still work as before, luckily.