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title: "#121: Real World Stories of Using AWS Lambda in Production"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 121
published_at: "2017-06-21"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/121"
---

WebOps Weekly 121   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/121) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 121 — June 21, 2017     

[Hacker News Users on Using AWS Lambda in Production](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14601809&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news A Hacker News thread with over 100 comments answering the question _‘How was your experience with AWS Lambda_ (Amazon’s serverless platform) _in production?’_ Hacker News [Learn Kubernetes Using Minikube and Docker on MacOS](http://johnmclaughlin.info/learn-kubernetes-using-minikube-docker-macos/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Learn how to manage a Kubernetes cluster using Minikube, a tool that runs a single-node cluster inside a local VM. John McLaughlin [Linux Servers at Risk from 'Stack Clash' Memory Corruption Flaw](https://thenewstack.io/linux-bsd-solaris-servers-risk-compromise-stack-clash-flaw/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news An important memory corruption defense in Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris can be bypassed by attackers to obtain root privileges. The New Stack [Catch Errors Before Your Users Do 💻](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship&utm_medium=email-nl) With Rollbar, automatically know what’s broken and why. Rollbar detects and alerts you via Slack, HipChat when code breaks. Get stack trace, user data to help you catch errors before your users do. ROLLBARsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/35862560.png)](https://rollbar.com/?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_campaign=nl_sponsorship&utm_medium=email-nl) [Liblb: A Study of Load Balancing Algorithms](http://liblb.com/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion An empirical study of load balancing approaches using Liblb, a Go library that implements four load balancing algorithms. Khalid Lafi [Applications of (Pin)trace Data](https://hackernoon.com/applications-of-pin-trace-data-3b9e6dc2744b?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How Pinterest uses distributed trace data to understand, debug and tune its backend services. Pinterest Engineering [Low Hanging Fruit: Cutting AWS RDS Instance Costs in Half](https://medium.com/cognitoiq/low-hanging-fruit-cutting-your-rds-instance-costs-in-half-736b8b490a24?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A look at how AWS RDS’s (Relational Database Service) new start/stop ability makes it possible to reduce costs. Melvyn Mathews [Going Serverless: Running Your First AWS Lambda Function](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/going-serverless-how-to-run-your-first-aws-lambda-function-in-the-cloud-d866a9b51536?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Very much a heavily detailed introductory walkthrough. Adam Watt In brief [New Apache httpd Release Fixes DoS Flaws](https://thenewstack.io/new-apache-http-server-release-fixes-auth-bypass-denial-service-flaws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Register for M102: MongoDB for DBAs](https://university.mongodb.com/courses/M102/about?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q2&utm_content=sponsored&utm_medium=display&utm_source=webopsweekly0621) news Learn everything you need to know to administer a MongoDB installation in production. MONGODBsponsored [Walmart Tells Developers to Stay Away From AWS](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/21/walmart_tells_devs_to_avoid_aws/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Fox Business [New Google Cloud Platform Region in Singapore](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/Google-Cloud-Platform-comes-to-Singapore.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Google [DigitalOcean Introducing Object Storage Service](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/object-storage/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news You have to request ‘early access’. DigitalOcean [Deploying a Static Blog with Continuous Integration](https://www.loxodrome.io/post/hugo-on-ci/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial James Milner [Deploy An App Into Kubernetes in Less Than 24 Minutes](https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/deploy-an-app-into-kubernetes-in-less-than-24-minutes-26764?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Marty Scholes [How To 'Hack' AWS Lambda to Run Docker Containers](https://hackernoon.com/how-did-i-hack-aws-lambda-to-run-docker-containers-7184dc47c09b?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Not necessarily a great idea, but an interesting experiment. Vlad Holubiev [Enforcing Kubernetes Network Policies with iptables](https://cloudnativelabs.github.io/post/2017-05-1-kube-network-policies/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Cloudnative Labs [Kubermesh: A Kubernetes Variant for Building Fault-Tolerant Infrastructure](https://thenewstack.io/brit-grocer-ocada-whips-version-kubernetes/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Maxwell Cooter [Why We Switched From Docker to Serverless](https://serverless.com/blog/why-we-switched-from-docker-to-serverless/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Asanka Nissanka [How AWS' Database Services Stack Up Against Oracle’s](https://sweetcode.io/aws-database-stack-oracles-database/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Twain Taylor [Autoscaling for your Heroku dynos](https://www.hirefire.io?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Automatically scale up and down to handle increased workloads and avoid wasting money on idle resources. HireFiresponsored [Netbyte: Netcat-style Tool for Probing Proprietary TCP and UDP Services](https://github.com/sc0tfree/netbyte?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Henry Prince [Soundwave: An Open Source Configuration Management Database](https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/soundwave-an-open-source-configuration-management-database-df75b31b8f5a?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Pinterest Engineering [nginx-builder: Tools to Make Adding Modules and Building NGINX Easier](https://github.com/gp187/nginx-builder?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools github.​com [Heroku Release Phase: Run Tasks Before a New Release is Deployed](https://blog.heroku.com/announcing-release-phase-run-tasks-before-new-release-deployed?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Heroku    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/121) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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