Issue 12 — April 29, 2015
“The HTTPS Everywhere campaign taken at face value completely breaks the web,” says Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web.
Tim Berners-Lee
In a superb keynote at O’Reilly Fluent, Google’s Paul Irish demonstrated how the Google Chrome team repositioned their performance goals in what’s most important to end users, and how you can do the same too.
Paul Irish
A proposal for “451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons”.
Tim Bray
StatusGator monitors the status pages of 120+ cloud services. Subscribe to the services you depend on and receive alerts via email, Slack, web hooks, and more. Share the status of your dependencies interally with a unified dashboard.
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The biggest new feature is a ‘stream’ module for generic TCP proxying and load balancing.
NGINX
Supports HTTP/2, IPv6, Markdown, WebSockets, FastCGI, templates, reverse proxying, and more, right out of the box. Boasts that it’s easy to use by all types of user.
Matt Holt
Last year Jonathan Suh invested a lot of time in making his site more efficient. Since then he’s redesigned again and now shares even more tips and techniques used.
Jonathan Suh
An academic paper that presents Flywheel, an HTTP proxy service that compresses responses in-flight between origin servers and client browsers. It’s already used by Chrome.
Agababov, Buettner, et al.​
Session affinity improves end user experience in certain apps and architectures as it ensures related requests get routed to the same instance of your code.
Heroku
How delivering a usable version of the page, before heavy assets are downloaded, can improve the user’s “perceived performance.”
Scott Jehl
Jobs
Experienced with JS-based web-dev for globally distributed internal applications? Qualified in some of *Nix, ES5, ES6, Node, RDF, Git, Puppet, Docker, CentOS, Python, Vsphere, HyperV, ZeroMQ? We need a DevOp to work with us (onsite, office hours, full-time) in our very-Soho offices.
Smoke & Mirrors
In brief
Sufian Rhazi
O'Reilly Media
Ada Rose Edwards
Performance is in the number one spot with navigation close behind.
CIO
Use ARIA live regions to keep users informed of events in a way compatible with assistive technologies.
Smashing Magazine
The NoTCP Manifesto   opinion 
Is it serious? Who knows.
notcp.​io
NRF
auth0
Cloudius Systems