Issue 141 — November 8, 2017
A write up about the benefits of HTTP/2 and how the BBC has begun to make use of it across its services for faster performance.
BBC Design and Engineering
The Lambda team at AWS did a popular “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit.
Reddit
It must be BBC week, as Lloyd Wallis, a Senior Engineer for the BBC, talks about moving the broadcaster’s media streaming over to HTTPS :-)
BBC Design and Engineering
This video series covers the history of CD, concepts, best practices, how to get started, and popular tools. You'll gain a holistic view of continuous delivery and a deeper understanding and appreciation of critical concepts.
GoCD   sponsored 
An intro to building Go-powered microservices and deploying them to a Kubernetes cluster.
Tin Rabzelj
The popular open-source monitoring system features a new faster and more efficient storage engine and is now easier to deploy in production.
Prometheus
A new family of EC2 instances designed for compute-heavy applications. They go up to 72 vCPUs and 144GB of RAM.
Jeff Barr
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In brief
Google Cloud Platform Blog
To connect to other services in Amazon VPCs controlled by you.
Heroku
Up from ‘nearly a third’ a year ago.
Mary Jo Foley
The Register
Frederic Lardinois
Heroku
The Universal Scalability Law models how systems perform as they grow. This ebook shows how to best use it.
VividCortex   sponsored 
Andrew Betts
Kubernetes the Easy Way   tutorial 
A walkthrough of setting up and deploying to a Kubernetes cluster.
Dan Garfield
Mohamed Labouardy
Sophia Parafina and Arun Gupta
Lee Namba
Kiran Oliver
Why continuous delivery is “the more fundamental practice”.
Matthew Skelton
.. as Google can change how fonts look on the fly.
Google
The million-dollar question, it is. Much like the trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” it seems like everyone is talking about DevOps.
Engine Yard   sponsored 
Amazon Web Services
Freek Van der Herten
A library to persist messages on S3 using serverless architecture.
Mateusz Kaczynski