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title: "#145: A Look at Microservice Architecture Best Practices"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 145
published_at: "2017-12-06"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/145"
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WebOps Weekly 145   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/145) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 145 — December 6, 2017     

[A Look at the Improvements TLS 1.3 Brings](https://www.keycdn.com/blog/tls-1-3/) tutorial Most browsers currently support TLS 1.2, defined almost 10 years ago. The next version, 1.3, is faster and more secure and can be tried in Chrome and Firefox. Cody Arsenault [EC2's T2 'Unlimited': Going Beyond the Burst](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyond-the-burst-with-high-performance/) news Launched in 2014, T2 instances were low cost EC2 instances with ‘burstable’ performance when needed. Now, you can get more control over just how much ‘burst’ you get. Jeff Barr [The Eternal Cost Savings of Netflix's Internal Spot Market](http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/4/the-eternal-cost-savings-of-netflixs-internal-spot-market.html) story Netflix is well known as a heavy user of AWS, leveraging up to 300,000 CPUs at any one time to encode video. Inspired by EC2’s own ‘spot market’, Netflix created their own to manage the heavy workload. High Scalability [$20 Free on a New Linode Account](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) Get a Linode server up and running in seconds. Simply choose your plan, distro and location and you’re ready to deploy your server. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hostingsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/5a4f0206.png)](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) [Conduit: A New Open Source Service Mesh for Kubernetes](https://buoyant.io/2017/12/05/introducing-conduit/) news From the developers of [Linkerd](https://linkerd.io/) comes a ‘next generation’ Kubnernetes-focused service mesh with lower resource demands and ‘blazingly fast’ performance in comparison. Buoyant [Microservice Architecture: All the Best Practices To Know](http://codingsans.com/blog/microservice-architecture-best-practices) tutorial A guide aimed at people considering moving from a monolith to microservices, covering best practices, advantages, and mistakes to avoid. Tamás Török [Amazon Aurora Serverless: Databases on Demand](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-amazon-aurora-serverless/) news Aurora is AWS’s MySQL- and Postgres-compatible scalable database service and they’re now working on a pay-as-you-go variant for highly variable workloads. Amazon Web Services [Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Framework](http://vectoross.io/) tools An open source framework that provides engineers with high-resolution performance metrics via customizable dashboards. Netflix [Kata Containers: The Speed of Containers, The Security of VMs](https://katacontainers.io/) tools Combining tech from Intel’s Clear Containers and Hyper runV, this is a new project from the OpenStack Foundation working to build a standard implementation of lightweight VMs that perform like containers. The OpenStack Foundation Jobs [Looking for Your Dream Webops Role?](https://underdog.io/?utm_medium=advertisement&utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_campaign=homepage2017-dec-6&utm_content=dream-job) Try Underdog.io, where hundreds of the best tech companies go to find tech talent. Companies email you directly as soon as next Monday. Underdog.​io In brief [HAProxy 1.8.0 Released](https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg28004.html) news You may also find this [What’s New in HAProxy 1.8](https://www.haproxy.com/blog/whats-new-haproxy-1-8/) article helpful. Willy Tarreau [Announcing the General Availability of containerd 1.0](https://blog.docker.com/2017/12/cncf-containerd-1-0-ga-announcement/) news An industry-standard runtime for building container solutions. Docker [Learn Everything About AWS’ New Container Products](https://blog.codeship.com/fargate-and-eks/?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=blog-content-newsletter) news AWS ECS vs. AWS EKS vs. AWS Fargate - confused? Learn more in our latest blog post. Codeshipsponsored [Amazon EKS: A Managed Kubernetes Service on AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/eks/) news Amazon Web Services [Amazon RDS Now Supports Database Storage Sizes up to 16TB](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-rds-now-supports-database-storage-size-up-to-16tb-and-faster-scaling-for-mysql-mariadb-oracle-and-postgresql-engines/) news RDS has increased the max storage size from 6 TB now up to 16 TB for a single instance. Amazon Web Services [AMD Epyc Processors Coming to Azure's Virtual Machines](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/amd-epyc-processors-coming-to-azure-virtual-machines/) news The high number of threads and cores makes Epyc appealing. Ars Technica [How Kubernetes Deployments Work](https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-deployments-work/) tutorial Maarten Hoogendoorn [Bee2: Automating HAProxy and LetsEncrypt with Docker](http://penguindreams.org/blog/bee2-automating-haproxy-and-letsencrypt-with-docker/) tutorial Sumit Khanna [Testing HTTPS in a Linux Dev Environment with Self-Signed Certificates](https://rosenfeld.herokuapp.com/en/articles/programming/2017-12-01-testing-https-in-a-linux-development-environment-with-self-signed-certificates) tutorial A script to generate SSL certs for your local environment. Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas [Dynamic Configuration with the HAProxy Runtime API](https://www.haproxy.com/blog/dynamic-configuration-haproxy-runtime-api/) tutorial An in-depth tour of HAProxy’s Runtime API and how it can be used to dynamically configure backend servers, ACLs, etc. Moemen Mhedhbi [4 Challenges With Containerizing Databases at New Relic](https://blog.newrelic.com/2017/12/05/containerizing-databases/) story Joshua Galbraith [Serverless Architectures with AWS Lambda [PDF\]](https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/serverless-architectures-with-aws-lambda.pdf) A 50 page whitepaper on AWS Lambda and serverless architectures. Amazon Web Services [GoCD - Open Source Continuous Delivery Server](https://www.gocd.org/?utm_campaign=gocd_oss&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=cloud_native&utm_term=) tools A continuous delivery tool supporting modern infrastructure with elastic on-demand agents and cloud deployments. GoCDsponsored [tuql: Automatically Create a GraphQL Server From a SQLite Database](https://github.com/bradleyboy/tuql) tools Brad Daily [cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s: IPvlan Overlay-Free Kubernetes Networking in AWS](https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-cni-ipvlan-vpc-k8s-ipvlan-overlay-free-kubernetes-networking-in-aws-95191201476e) tools Lyft has released a networking stack for running Kubernetes within VPCs on AWS. Paul Fisher    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/145) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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