Chopping a monolith up into microservices is increasingly common, but this article explores an alternative which promises less operational complexity: modular app development.

The faster and more elegant messaging systems which helped the adoption of microservices are now encouraging moves to function-based/serverless approaches, argues Adrian Cockroft.

A set of mocked AWS services (S3, API Gateway, Lambda, and more) for testing your cloud-bound apps locally.

Baron Schwartz discusses how organizations can monitor their databases wisely well after the holiday rush.

Addy Osmani digs deep into Chrome’s networking stack to see how features like link preloading and prefetching work to improve Web page loading times.

A scaling and automation-focused release that can deploy multiple workloads to multiple users on clusters made up of up to 5000 nodes.

What are the key Web optimizations available right now and what impact can they have?

Images are the biggest contributor to web page bloat. Brian Rinaldi looks at whether Google’s new Guetzli JPEG encoder can help fix this.

High level opinion with a Lego analogy. It provoked an extensive discussion on Hacker News.

A look at Ticketmaster’s ‘top down’ approach of imposing containers, Kubernetes, and using the public cloud upon its developers and ops teams.

Last week we looked at how Smashing Magazine has moved to a ‘JAM’ stack, now see how to do the same with AWS and Hugo, a high performance static site generator.