Issue 128 — August 9, 2017
A new Internet Draft specifying ‘localhost’ must resolve to a loopback address. There was a lot of discussion about this on Hacker News.
IETF
How Russia’s largest email provider developed a high-load WebSocket server with Go that could scale to their requirements.
Sergey Kamardin
Interest in the DNS appears to come in waves, and we seem to be in the midst of a furious burst of activity.
Geoff Huston
This webinar is all about the best ways to define and monitor your app’s most important performance metrics.
VividCortex   sponsored 
Thoughts on limiting the number of concurrent requests in all servers to avoid cascading failures.
Evan Jones
An in-depth look at how to use malformed requests and esoteric headers to coax systems into revealing themselves and opening gateways into victim networks.
James Kettle
Now Linux tools can be run on Windows Server, as well as Windows 10. No background services or daemons, however.
Microsoft
What is 'containerd'?  
A look at the core container runtime designed to be used by tools like Docker and Kubernetes to abstract away syscalls and OS specific functionality.
Michael Crosby
A 75 minute discussion about IPv6 and the research going on at Cisco’s Innovation and Research Lab.
Packet Pushers
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In brief
A fascinating look at the world of load averages.
Brendan Gregg
ELK is Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana — a stack commonly used for logging and analysis.
Igor Kantor
How to speed up execution times.
Alexander Todorov
This is a guest post from Brent Mills, Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Vyopta.
MONGODB   sponsored 
Andrew Seigner
Douglas Matsumoto
Michelle Gienow
An under development ebook already at 176 pages and covering setting up immutable infrastructure and automation with Ubuntu, SaltStack, gitfs, and PXE.
Chris Malone
NetApp
With the DDoS threat landscape changing so rapidly, Incapsula engineers had to build a future-proof platform that would stay ahead of attacks. Here’s how they did it.
Imperva Incapsula   sponsored 
Mary Branscombe
Mark Boyd
Rajat Saxena
Robert Womack
Todd Motto
Hayden James