The Linux-oriented nature of Docker hasn’t escaped Microsoft’s attention, but soon Windows stack developers will be able to ‘run any container image regardless of their platform’.

The Moby Project is a new open-source project to advance the containerization movement. “Docker is transitioning all of its open source collaborations to the Moby project going forward.”

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A new tool from Docker for building custom minimal immutable Linux distributions. GitHub repo.

Thorough notes taken from a 40 minute talk on getting the most out of NGINX as a load balancer, complete with config examples.

Simple event data infrastructure diagrams from several fast-scaling companies.

A newly open sourced tool that places a controlled load within a computing environment via a ‘realistic’ application and then simulates users interacting with said app.

No code as yet, but it’s interesting to see a tool Netflix uses to manage issues within its extensive AWS-hosted infrastructure.

Reddit built an interactive pixel art system (called /r/place) that had to work with 100,000s of users from day one. This fascinating post goes into the details including why Cassandra was rejected as a data store, and how Redis was used.