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title: "#137: Designing for the Serverless Age"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 137
published_at: "2017-10-11"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/137"
---

WebOps Weekly 137   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/137) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 137 — October 11, 2017     

[Serving 100 Gbps From An Open Connect Appliance](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-connect-appliance-cdb51dda3b99?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How Netflix leveraged new 100GbE network interface technology to serve at 100 Gbps from a single FreeBSD-based appliance using NVMe storage. Drew Gallatin [Building Browser Extensions At Scale](https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/building-browser-extensions-at-scale?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story An extensive overview of techniques, best practices, and things learnt by Grammarly, creators of a popular browser extension. Igor Kononuchenko [Free team guide on continuous delivery from GoCD](https://www.gocd.org/cd101/?utm_campaign=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperpress_webops&utm_content=cd_101_ebook&utm_term=) In this free reference guide, you’ll find visuals and definitions on key concepts and questions you need to answer about your teams to determine your readiness for continuous delivery. Download for free and share with your team. GoCDsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bd83b391.png)](https://www.gocd.org/cd101/?utm_campaign=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperpress_webops&utm_content=cd_101_ebook&utm_term=) [How We Switched From AWS Kinesis to Postgres for our Queue](https://blog.codebarrel.io/whats-old-is-new-again-how-we-switched-from-aws-kinesis-to-postgres-for-our-queue-b328adae7c5f?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story [Kinesis](https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/) is a streaming data service, but you can replicate its functionality in-house using Postgres, if you wish. Code Barrel Blog [Deploy Docker Images to Heroku with Container Registry](https://blog.heroku.com/container-registry-and-runtime?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Heroku’s new _Container Registry and Runtime_ is now generally available and brings together the benefits of Docker with those of Heroku. Heroku [OpenTracing: An Open Standard for Distributed Tracing](https://thenewstack.io/opentracing-open-standard-distributed-tracing/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Most apps generate logs but modern distributed systems demand more elaborate ways to trace what’s going on. OpenTracing is a vendor-neutral standard for distributed instrumentation. The New Stack [Designing for the Serverless Age](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7X4gAQTk2E&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video A fantastic 50 minute talk from GOTO 2017 on how the serverless approach impacts the design of apps and the cost implications involved. Gojko Adzic [Crypto Anchors for Exfiltration Resistant Infrastructure?](https://diogomonica.com/2017/10/08/crypto-anchors-exfiltration-resistant-infrastructure/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion An idea for ensuring sensitive data-flows are ‘crypto-anchored’ to your infrastructure. Diogo Mónica In brief [Security Alert: Patch Dnsmasq on Your Linux Servers, Kubernetes and Networking Devices](https://thenewstack.io/security-alert-patch-dnsmasq-linux-servers-kubernetes-networking-devices/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news The New Stack [Google Compute Engine Instances Now Up to 96 VCPUs & 624GB Memory](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/10/new-compute-engine-machine-types.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Google Cloud Platform Blog [Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud](https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/10/04/oracle-emulates-google-aws-cloud/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) news Timothy Prickett Morgan [Expert’s Guide: Should I Hire DevOps or Outsource to a Provider?](http://www.engineyard.com/should-i-hire-devops) This ebook covers the benefits and risks of each option and a side-by-side comparison, including costs. Engine Yardsponsored [Persisting State Between AWS EC2 Spot Instances](https://peteris.rocks/blog/persisting-state-between-aws-ec2-spot-instances/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial ..using Docker on an external volume. Pēteris Ņikiforovs [IP Accounting and Access Lists with systemd](http://0pointer.net/blog/ip-accounting-and-access-lists-with-systemd.html?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The latest systemd can do per-service IP traffic accounting, plus access control for IP ranges. Lennart Poettering [Spinning up a Spark Cluster on EC2 Spot Instances](https://blog.insightdatascience.com/spinning-up-a-spark-cluster-on-spot-instances-step-by-step-e8ed14ebb3b?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Austin Ouyang [StdLib: A Serverless Library for Building Developer Velocity](https://thenewstack.io/stdlib-drives-bring-developer-velocity-serverless/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story Mark Boyd [Serverless ETL on AWS Lambda](https://engblog.nextdoor.com/bender-ff65a6edee92?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) story How social network Nextdoor handle 2.5 billion daily events using AWS. Nextdoor Engineering [Why Azure App Service Embraces Containers and Now Runs on Linux](https://thenewstack.io/azure-app-service-embraces-containers-now-runs-linux/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Alex Williams [Azure Container Instances: Get Containers Up and Running in Seconds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTM3xDpTrBE&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video Microsoft Mechanics [MongoDB on Building a Global Database-as-a-Service](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHuIFM9cyik&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) video The product manager of MongoDB’s _Atlas_ hosted service explains how it was built on AWS. Andrew Davidson [Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UIs 90% Automated?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429616&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion With modern frameworks, it arguably is. Hacker News [The Rise of Container Orchestration Storage Standards](https://blogs.dxc.technology/2017/10/04/the-rise-of-container-orchestration-storage-standards/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Every container management system demands its own storage driver. The author argues that this is “pretty darn silly”. Steven J.​ Vaughan-Nichols [Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications](https://www.vividcortex.com/resources/architecting-highly-monitorable-apps?utm_campaign=WebOps%20Weekly&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=Best%20Practices) Is your app easy to monitor in production? Many apps are, but sadly, some are designed with observability as an afterthought. VividCortexsponsored [tklx/base: A Super Slim Container Image Based on Debian](https://github.com/tklx/base?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Weighs in at only 12MB. TKLX [Staticus: A Static Status Page Running on GitHub Pages](https://github.com/NarroApp/staticus?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) code NarroApp    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/137) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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