The studio behind Fortnite, a popular online game, shares technical details about the challenges of rapidly scaling a game and its online services far beyond their growth expectations.

Essentially it’s HAProxy but with more features around dynamic caching. It benches at around 4x faster than Squid too.

Learn how to identify, test, and minimize test cases so you are better prepared to provide information to your support team (or just to have it handy on your test server).

Spot instances have become a lot better lately with less price volatility, automatic bid management, and 2 minute warnings prior to shutdowns, so could they replace more of your key EC2 instances?

If Kubernetes, Docker and ‘orchestration’ remain buzzwords to you or members of your team, these thoughts from Scott Hanselman could help flesh out their relevance.

NGINX added support for HTTP2 ‘server push’ - here’s an example of working with it from Go.

Technical Evangelism Lead at AWS, Ian Massingham shares his thoughts on the current state of serverless. Related slidedeck.