Issue 131 — August 30, 2017
A thorough ‘compare and contrast’ of different approaches taken by Linux distributions commonly used in container images.
Scott McCarty
Running infrastructure on AWS? Here’s a thorough guide to using Parameter Store to manage your secrets in production.
Evan Johnson
APNIC Labs has a new tool that can show the performance of IPv6 relative to IPv4 at both a country-by-country and network-by-network level.
Geoff Huston
Appranix lets you simplify application operations on cloud platforms. Learn how to integrate it with Codeship Pro & Codeship Basic.
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Their CTO explains the challenges faced in scaling each layer of their Python-based stack.
Dmitry Mukhin
It’s a Ruby and Go-inspired language which runs on a Go VM. GitHub repo has more info.
Stan Lo
Backblaze, a very heavy user of hard drives, is back with their Q2 2017 failure stats. Always interesting and worth a check if you’re buying drives.
Backblaze
The digital version of the New York Times crossword gets a huge amount of traffic. They moved it to Google App Engine, but why?
Times Open
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In brief
Using Ruby? There’s an upgrade you need to do.
ruby-lang
Lorne Kligerman
The New Stack
W3Techs
The commercial version of NGINX includes a new API mechanism and HTTP request mirroring.
NGINX
There’s a new type of DDoS attack that consists of a series of short bursts in rapid succession - “pulse wave” attacks.
Imperva Incapsula   sponsored 
Run your own serverless analytics system with Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda functions.
Sebastian Müller
Mateo Burillo
Marcos Placona
InfoQ
Cloudflare
The human aspects of collaborative front-end projects.
Jyri Tuulos
James Governor
Is Kubernetes Overkill?   opinion 
Matt Rogish
Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Use promo code WEBOPS20 and get $20 credit.
Linode Cloud Hosting   sponsored 
SKA is an open-source access control system for SSH-based servers. Repo here.
Opera Software
..for in-house deployments. It’s a work in progress but the author assures me it’s ripe for testing.
TENDIGI
NVIDIA Corporation