Issue 124 — July 12, 2017
Voice and text service Discord now handles five million concurrent users and millions of events per second.
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
How using Docker inspired Spotify to build a service, Tsunami, that lets them gradually roll out stack upgrades over the course of days or weeks.
David Xia
Are you a curious mind? Full Stack Fest is a week-long conference that peeks into the web of tomorrow. Serverless, Blockchain, WebVR, Distributed Web, Progressive Web Apps. Tickets available with a 10% discount using the code WEBOPSWEEK
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Don’t get too excited just yet, however, as they’re not due until the start of 2018.
Let's Encrypt
A simple checklist of 33 (so far) security considerations when deploying a Web-facing API.
Shieldfy
A detailed look at the fallacy of benchmarks and what really matters when it comes to creating webapps.
Nate Berkopec
Your DNS setup can have a great effect on performance and resilience against DDoS attacks.
Matt Biilmann
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Work in the dev and systems world, tackling interesting challenges.
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In brief
A potential overflow condition can occur with a specially crafted request on versions 0.5.6 through 1.13.2.
NGINX
Aaron Brown on Twitter
DigitalOcean
Not sure how useful this is but the idea is interesting.
Christian Haschek
A service, created with JavaScript, that makes setting up email form forwarding easy.
Daniel Ireson
Richard Schneeman
Gao Chao
A deep dive into a new enhancement to Cloudflare’s HTTPS service.
Cloudflare
It stands for Build-Diff-Deploy-Apply.
Atlassian Developers
The Codeship + OpsGenie integration lets you send alerts and notifications about critical events, like failed builds, to your on-call or development team.
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Increased numbers of warnings in browsers will make users think twice.
Troy Hunt
Gareth Rushgrove
Both tools for managing infrastructure.
Colin Mo / Armory
Santosh Balan / Fujitsu America
A controversial but intriguing opinion.
Matt Asay
Always know whats broken & why. Rollbar detects and alerts you when code breaks. Catch errors before users do.
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Jess Frazelle
Secures PHP apps’ server-to-server HTTP(S) traffic.
Paragon Initiative Enterprises
An encrypted email system with support for SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP and MOLTEN.
Lavabit LLC