Issue 148 — January 10, 2018
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- The WebOps Weekly team (Peter, Chris, and Za'e)
You’ve probably heard about the major Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affect various CPUs and GPUs. This goes into more detail and how major online services are responding.
The New Stack
A thorough investigation of the challenges and approaches in testing microservices without resorting to monolithic techniques.
Cindy Sridharan
An in-depth post on why Stripe chose to build on top of Kubernetes, how they integrated Kubernetes into their existing infrastructure, and their approach to increasing reliability.
Julia Evans
A front-end performance checklist with everything you need to know to create fast Web experiences this year.
Vitaly Friedman
What do web threats in 2017 mean for 2018?
Imperva   sponsored 
If you’re using Amazon Web Services, ECS can be attractive way to run apps - this article digs into why and some of the things to watch out for when using it to run Node apps. Part 2.
Geoff Wagstaff
Amazon and Microsoft’s serverless ‘function-as-a-service’ platforms go head to head.
James Randall
“how your concept of monitoring perhaps needs recentering before it even applies to the brave new world of DevOps”
ACM
The how and why behind Etsy’s decision to go with Google Cloud Platform.
Mike Fisher
Some shared hosting systems can be exploited to obtain certificates for domains not under one’s control. LE has disabled TLS-SNI-01 validation in response.
Let's Encrypt
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In brief
kubernetes.​io
No specific updates for NGINX, just install the OS-level patches.
NGINX
The New Stack
Optimize apps, track performance, and troubleshoot latency issues with end-to-end tracing. Try Datadog free.
Datadog   sponsored 
Pei Wang
Neil Williams
How edge networks, Kubernetes, serverless and other trends will shape systems engineering and operations.
Nikki McDonald
Nati Shalom
Astasia Myers
Alex Ellis
Codeship + GitHub Enterprise   sponsored 
.. using a two-way proxy called Telepresence.
Richard Li
Pavlos Ratis
Gencebay Demir
GoCD   sponsored 
Essentially an email delivery platform you can run on your own servers.
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