Billed as “Unit Testing, but for Performance”, k6 is built in Go and offers Docker and CLI based tools for HTTP testing.

A thorough walkthrough of using Terraform to (relatively) easily set up a complete, load balanced multi-server system on EC2.

A 27 minute talk packed with tips and best practices for building Dockerized apps from a developer’s point of view. There’s a similar Docker for Ops talk too.

Jpeg.io is a free online service for rapidly converting your images into highly optimized JPEGs using proprietery JPEG optimization algorithms. Optimize all your images in one go and greatly speed-up your websites and applications.

A patchset enables seamless reloads of HAProxy without dropping packets in the process.

A conceptual and very accessible guide to hosting, scaling and load balancing an app with AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS) and Docker.

Some clever rigging up of WAL-E, S3, and EC2 for backing up a Postgres database and then testing that it restores correctly every day.

Potentially useful for local development where SSL support is required (e.g. ServiceWorker development). The private key is included for signing.

There are a lot of things to consider. This post also led to some discussion on Hacker News.