Issue 138 — October 18, 2017
A high level look at GitHub's connections to the outside world. There’s also an article about the evolution of GitHub’s data centers.
Ross McFarland
Some interesting news from DockerCon Europe this week. Docker is to begin including Kubernetes 1.8 so you get the option to use both Kubernetes and Swarm to orchestrate containers.
The New Stack
In this report we explore and definitively answer whether MySQL or PostgreSQL is truly faster than the other.
VividCortex   sponsored 
Better support for managing TLS certificates via the ACME protocol is coming to httpd soon and a module is already under development.
Let's Encrypt
A look at the tech stack behind a hosted CMS used by thousands of sites and where as close to 100% uptime as possible is a must.
High Scalability
Should you use human readable ‘slugs’ in URLs or (alpha)numeric identifiers? The answer isn’t always straightforward.
Google Cloud Platform Blog
Unsure how to optimize your app to take advantage of HTTP/2? This article aims to clarify.
Kellen Evan Person
In brief
Heroku
Susan Hall
IETF
Want to quickly compare the cloud capabilities of Azure and AWS services across the board?
Microsoft Azure
The New Stack
Open source continuous delivery tool specializing in advanced workflow modeling and dependency management.
GoCD   sponsored 
Simon Willison
Writing WebSocket Servers   tutorial 
Mozilla
Tianhe Zhang
Alex Kras
Terraform is a powerful tool for orchestrating cloud infrastructure.
J.​D.​ Hollis
A look at what operating systems are used on Docker Hub and usage over time.
Max de Visser
Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account.
Linode Cloud Hosting   sponsored 
Daniel Walsh