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title: "#119: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 119
published_at: "2017-06-07"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/119"
---

WebOps Weekly 119   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/119) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](http://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 119 — June 7, 2017     

[The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit](https://redditblog.com/2017/06/02/the-evolution-of-code-deploys-at-reddit/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Engineers at Reddit are deploying code up to 200 times each week — a typical roll-out takes fewer than 10 minutes end-to-end. Neil Williams and Saurabh Sharma [Spinnaker 1.0: A Continuous Delivery Platform for Cloud](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/spinnaker-10-continuous-delivery.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform originally built by Netflix that helps you decouple your release pipeline from your target cloud provider. Google [DNS Infrastructure at GitHub](https://githubengineering.com/dns-infrastructure-at-github/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story GitHub recently revamped their approach to how they handle DNS, building a new DNS infrastructure that could scale along with their growth. Joe Williams [Introducing M001: MongoDB Basics](https://university.mongodb.com/courses/M001/about?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q2&utm_content=primary&utm_medium=display&utm_source=webopsweekly0607) This free, 3 week, online course offered by MongoDB University will take you through the fundamentals of MongoDB from installation to schema design. Mongo DBsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/41d20a5f.png)](https://university.mongodb.com/courses/M001/about?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q2&utm_content=primary&utm_medium=display&utm_source=webopsweekly0607) [How Yelp Make Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss](https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2017/06/making-photos-smaller.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Yelp has over 100 million user-generated photos — here’s how they optimized those snaps, achieving an average 30% size reduction. Stephen Arthur [Pentagon Framework: Build Kubernetes-Based Infrastructure](https://www.reactiveops.com/blog/introducing-pentagon/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A framework for building repeatable, containerized, cloud-based infrastructure as code with Kubernetes. ReactiveOps [Powering your Amazon ECS Cluster with EC2 Spot Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/powering-your-amazon-ecs-cluster-with-amazon-ec2-spot-instances/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news EC2 Container Service now supports launching ECS clusters onto cheaper spot instances. This could give you huge savings if your use case supports it. Amazon [DigitalOcean Launches 'Cloud Firewalls'](https://blog.digitalocean.com/cloud-firewalls-secure-droplets-by-default/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news DO users can now lean on DigitalOcean for firewalling their instances/droplets. Security rules can now be defined in the control panel rather than handled server by server. DigitalOcean In brief [Announcing DNS Service Discovery for Heroku Private Spaces: Microservices Communication, Made Easy](https://blog.heroku.com/announcing-dns-service-discovery?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Heroku [Twilio's Quest to Offer All the APIs for Modern Day Messaging](https://thenewstack.io/twilio-apis-modern-day-messaging/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Mary Branscombe [Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery with NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/blog/introducing-cicd-with-nginx-and-nginx-plus/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial NGINX [Replacing NGINX with Træfik for Local Development](https://jc00ke.com/2017/05/30/replacing-nginx-with-traefik-for-local-development/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Træfik is a configurable HTTP reverse proxy. Jesse Cooke [Domain Forwarding with AWS Route 53 and S3](https://www.fernandomc.com/posts/serverless-domain-forwarding-aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Fernando Medina Corey [A Brief Guide to Creating a Docker Dev Environment](https://nrempel.com/guides/docker-development-environment.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial How to set up a Docker environment and “get up and running in minutes”. Nicholas Rempel [Need more insight into production errors, fast? ✅](https://rollbar.com/webopsweekly) See how Rollbar pairs perfectly with APM tools to give you greater coverage + much more insight into application errors. ROLLBARsponsored [Five Years of IPv6: Where to in the Next Five?](https://blog.apnic.net/2017/06/06/five-years-ipv6-whither-next-five/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story George Michaelson / APNIC [Lessons Learned Building a Backend-as-a-Service: A Technical Deep Dive](https://medium.baqend.com/how-to-develop-a-backend-as-a-service-from-scratch-lessons-learned-a9fac618c2ce?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Baqend [Creating a Data Centre Architecture using Kubernetes and Containers](http://ocadotechnology.com/blog/creating-a-distributed-data-centre-architecture-using-kubernetes-and-containers/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Ocado Technology [Our Failure Migrating to Kubernetes](https://engineering.saltside.se/our-failure-migrating-to-kubernetes-25c28e6dd604?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Adam Hawkins [70% Faster: Rewriting The API That Serves Most of Our Traffic](http://tech.namshi.com/blog/2017/05/28/rewriting-the-catalog-api/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Ayham Alzoubi [Kubernetes vs Docker vs Mesosphere: An Orchestrator Comparison](https://netsil.com/blog/kubernetes-vs-docker-vs-mesosphere/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Twain Taylor [Discontent and Disruption in The World of Content Delivery Networks](https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/discontent-and-disruption-in-the-world-of-content-delivery-networks/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion How the growing CDN market is changing thanks to new players, scale and security. Mahendra Ramsinghani [Google Cloud Platform vs. Amazon Web Services](https://bugfender.com/blog/google-cloud-platform-vs-amazon-web-services/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Or why a company is moving to GCP from AWS. Bugfender [Troubleshoot app latency with end-to-end request tracing](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/lpg/?utm_source=webopsweekly&amp=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CooperPress-WebOpsWeeklyAPM) tools Datadogsponsored [Aardvark and Repokid: 2 Netflix Tools for Managing AWS IAM Policies](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/introducing-aardvark-and-repokid-53b081bf3a7e?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Systems that make it easy to automatically manage IAM roles and policies at a large scale. Netflix [zetcd: For Running ZooKeeper Apps Without ZooKeeper](https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-zetcd?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools zetcd sits in front of an etcd cluster and serves an emulated ZooKeeper client port, letting unmodified ZooKeeper applications run on top of etcd. CoreOS [Heroku Shield: Continuous Delivery for High Compliance Apps](https://blog.heroku.com/announcing-heroku-shield?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A new Heroku-powered tool designed with strictly regulated/high compliance industries (such as healthcare) in mind. Jesper Joergensen [Clair 2.0: The Container Security Scanner](https://coreos.com/blog/celebrating-clair2.0?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Delivers _“new capabilities that render container contents more visible and more verifiable”_. Jimmy Zelinskie [check_pgactivity 2.2: A Postgres Plugin for Nagios](https://github.com/OPMDG/check_pgactivity?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools github.​com    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/119) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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