The author argues you should never use NGINX for load balancing because of a lack of detailed status/monitoring info out of the box.

If you like a look into high traffic stacks, this case study looking over an advertising platform’s system is worth a look.

An exploration of work the Microsoft Edge team does to help developers build faster sites, and how to think of performance as an investigative activity, beyond a checklist approach.

Trace real requests from end to end, across service boundaries, to quickly identify the source of errors or performance bottlenecks.

An interface for exploring the output of sysdig, a system visibility tool with native support for containers.

Cloudflare makes a bold promise saying they will “no longer terminate customers, regardless of the size of the DDoS attacks they receive…”

How Yandex’s Metrica web analytics service modified their approach to storage, hardware utilization, and efficiency in response to huge growth.