Same Site cookies alleviate the most common cross-site request attacks by not allowing browsers to send cookies on cross-origin requests. However, there is some nuance to their use and only Chrome and Opera support them for now.

The situation is now over but this is the tale of how ICANN took someone’s site ‘hostage’ after they accidentally left old contact details on their domain’s WHOIS record. You might want to check your own domains now.

The VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at AWS reflects on the evolution from monolithic apps to microservices and, now, on to functions.

Download our free eBook and learn how to create a Dockerfile from scratch, how to push images to Docker Hub, and some Dockerfile best practices.

Quick table-based comparison of Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos and Nomad for how they deal with things like service discovery and secret management.

A short but sweet introduction to HTTP/2, followed up by benchmarking of six different scenarios and ways in which you might use HTTP/2 now.

Thoughts on how container orchestrators like Kubernetes form the foundation for next generation platform as a service (PaaS).

GraphQL is rapidly emerging as a viable alternative for the creation and publication of APIs.

Considerations while building an Uber-style map with live, moving cars on it. They ended up using UDP+Protobuf, in memory storage, and OpenStreetMap Routing Machine.

The start of a series of posts on writing concurrent applications, first looking at how the OS schedules our apps’ IO operations.