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title: "#129: AWS Glue - A New Extract, Transfer, and Load Service"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 129
published_at: "2017-08-16"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/129"
---

WebOps Weekly 129   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/129) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 129 — August 16, 2017     

[APIs as Infrastructure: Future-Proofing Stripe with Versioning](https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story _“When it comes to APIs, change isn’t popular.. “_ and one way to help is to use a versioning scheme for its URLs, as Stripe has done. Brandur Leach [AWS Glue: A New Extract, Transfer, and Load (ETL) Service](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/08/introducing-aws-glue-a-simple-flexible-and-cost-effective-extract-transfer-and-load-etl-service/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A new managed service from AWS for ETL jobs. Uses Spark under the hood and in one region only for now. Amazon Web Services [GitHub Goes All in on Kubernetes](https://thenewstack.io/github-goes-kubernetes-tells/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The story behind how GitHub has scaled, how they evaluated Kubernetes, and what was involved in moving over to using it. The New Stack [Building a Network for Scale, Flexibility and Performance](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/behemoth-2-mitigation-platform.html?utm_source=Webops&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=primary) When the Incapsula network mitigated a 650 Gbps DDoS flood last year, its CPU was unaffected by the attack. Here’s how the engineering team rebuilt the mitigation platform. Imperva Incapsulasponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/4afce33b.png)](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/behemoth-2-mitigation-platform.html?utm_source=Webops&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=primary) [Amazon Macie: Machine-Learning Powered Security for S3](https://aws.amazon.com/macie/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Web Services [Manas: Pinterest's High Performing Customized Search System](https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/manas-a-high-performing-customized-search-system-cf189f6ca40f?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How Pinterest’s search system finds the most relevant results among +100 billion ‘pins’. Zheng Liu [Using the Paint Timing API in Chrome](https://css-tricks.com/paint-timing-api/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The Paint Timing API landed in Chrome 60 and allows us to gather paint timing metrics from end users. Jeremy Wagner [The World in Which IPv6 Was A Good Design](http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201708&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email#10) story Why is IPv6 such a complicated mess compared to IPv4? Here’s some history. apenwarr [On The (Perceived) Value of EV Certs and Commercial CAs](https://www.troyhunt.com/on-the-perceived-value-ev-certs-cas-phishing-lets-encrypt/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A discussion and analysis of security and phishing issues related to the popularity of the free Let’s Encrypt, how trust and privacy are different things, and where EV certificates stand. Troy Hunt Jobs [Senior Backend Engineer at Stash (New York City)](https://www.stashinvest.com/careers?gh_jid=745125&gh_src=abrgws1) We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable, and performant software. Stash [Take Your Career To The Next Level. Get Access to the Best Jobs on Hired](https://hired.com/join/?utm_source=petercooperpress&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=%28b2c%29%28l-all%29%28r-swe%29%28q3-17-webops-weekly%29) Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In brief [Google and CodeFresh Collaborate to Make Kubernetes More Accessible](https://thenewstack.io/google-codefresh-collaborate-make-kubernetes-accessible-smaller-organizations-new-users/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Michelle Gienow [Amazon Jumps On Kubernetes Bandwagon](http://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-jumps-on-kubernetes-bandwagon/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news AWS is joining the Kubernetes DevOps group, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, as a platinum member. ZDNet [Running MongoDB as a microservice with Docker and Kubernetes](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/running-mongodb-as-a-microservice-with-docker-and-kubernetes?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY17Q2&utm_content=sponsored&utm_medium=email&utm_source=webopsweekly) tutorial Containers are revolutionizing the entire software lifecycle from proofs of concept through development, test, deployment, and support. MONGODBsponsored [Strip Down Apache to Improve Performance and Memory Efficiency](https://haydenjames.io/strip-apache-improve-performance-memory-efficiency/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Stripping out unused modules can have a surprising effect. Hayden James [Real-Time MySQL Performance Monitoring](http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/real-time-mysql-performance-monitoring.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Using MySQL monitoring tool [Monyog](https://www.webyog.com/product/monyog) to measure key metrics. Rob Gravelle [Evolution of the Heroku CLI: 2008-2017](https://blog.heroku.com/evolution-of-heroku-cli-2008-2017?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story The Heroku command line interface started off, like many things do, in Ruby. Heroku [Why Morningstar Moved to the Cloud: 97% Cost Reduction](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/8/14/why-morningstar-moved-to-the-cloud-97-cost-reduction.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story High Scalability [Migrating 1200 Databases From MySQL to Postgres](http://psyenix.blogspot.com/2017/08/migrating-1200-db-from-mysql-to-postgres.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Gabriel Garrido Calvo [Changing 100M URLs and Living to Tell The Tale](https://www.wix.engineering/single-post/2017/08/03/Change-100M-URLs-and-live-to-tell?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Changing URLs used by millions of users isn’t the easiest task. Wix Engineering [AWS Infrastructure Setup: The CleverTap Way](https://clevertap.com/blog/aws-infrastructure-setup-the-clevertap-way/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story A brief case-study on CleverTap’s evolving AWS environment. Francis Pereira [When You See API Rate Limiting as Security](https://apievangelist.com/2017/08/04/when-you-see-api-rate-limiting-as-security/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion API services and API security have come a long way, but Kin Lane argues that organizations still take too narrow a view of their APIs. Kin Lane [RAM is the New Disk](https://medium.com/thought-frameworks/ram-is-the-new-disk-b94df9bbd7b?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Nikhil Garg [3 minutes is all you need to get started with Codeship Basic](https://codeship.com/features/basic-aw?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=cooper-basic-features-signup-campaign) tools Get set up with our hosted Continuous Integration Platform in under 3 minutes. Join thousands of customers like InvisionApp & Whole Foods. Codeshipsponsored [poormanscdn: An Amazon S3 Caching Proxy Built in Go](https://github.com/alexandres/poormanscdn?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Alexandre Salle [Scotty.js: Deploy Static Websites to AWS S3 with a Single Command](https://github.com/stojanovic/scottyjs?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Slobodan Stojanovic [Heptio Sonobuoy: A Diagnostic Tool That Makes It Easier to Understand The State of A Kubernetes Cluster](https://github.com/heptio/sonobuoy?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Heptio    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/129) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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