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title: "#153: Why Should You Care About Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 153
published_at: "2018-02-14"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/153"
---

WebOps Weekly 153   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/153) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 153 — February 14, 2018     

[Postmortem of a Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users](https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-service-outage-at-3-4m-ccu) news 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. Epic Games [Nuster: A Web Caching Proxy Server Based on HAProxy](https://github.com/jiangwenyuan/nuster) code Essentially it’s [HAProxy](http://www.haproxy.org/) but with more features around dynamic caching. It benches at around [4x faster than Squid](https://github.com/jiangwenyuan/nuster/wiki/Web-cache-server-performance-benchmark:-nuster-vs-squid) too. Jiang Wen Yuan [Effective Testing for Live Applications](https://learn.percona.com/cp-effective-testing-for-live-applications) 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). Perconasponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/defcaaf9.png)](https://learn.percona.com/cp-effective-testing-for-live-applications) [Replacing EC2 On-Demand Instances with New Spot Instances](https://alestic.com/2018/02/ec2-spot-cloudwatch-events-sns/) tutorial 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? Eric Hammond [Why Should You Care About Kubernetes, Docker, and Container Orchestration?](https://www.hanselman.com/blog/WhyShouldICareAboutKubernetesDockerAndContainerOrchestration.aspx) opinion 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. Scott Hanselman [A Practical Example of using NGINX HTTP2 Server Push](https://ops.tips/blog/nginx-http2-server-push/) tutorial NGINX added support for [HTTP2 ‘server push’](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/04/guide-http2-server-push/) - here’s an example of working with it from Go. Ciro S.​ Costa [Serverless: State of The Union](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjznBQJfpHQ) video Technical Evangelism Lead at AWS, Ian Massingham shares his thoughts on the current state of serverless. [Related slidedeck](https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/serverless-state-of-the-union). AWS DevDays Nordics [Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture](https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3185224) opinion _“the solutions to many difficulties that seem technical can be found by examining our interactions with others.”_ Bridget Kromhout (Microsoft) Jobs [Site Reliability Engineer with Security Focus (Berlin, Germany)](https://meritocracy.is/en/coya-gmbh/site-reliability-engineer-with-security-focus-34536?utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=coya_sre) You'll play a key role building and designing our base infrastructure and help our development team to build a great product. Coya [WebOps Jobs at 4,000+ Companies](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_medium=cooper-webopsweekly&utm_campaign=ad-1714&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=grouped&utm_term=tech) Try Vettery to start getting tech job offers delivered right to your inbox. Vettery In brief [HTTP/2 Server Push Support Pushed to NGINX](https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/641306096f5b) news NGINX [Chrome 68 to Mark All HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure'](https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html) news Google [Oracle Promises Self-Securing, Self-Repairing Autonomous Cloud Services](https://thenewstack.io/oracle-promises-self-securing-self-repairing-autonomous-cloud-services/) news The New Stack [Datadog Has Been Added as an Optional Endpoint for MongoDB Atlas Alerts](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/push-your-mongodb-atlas-alerts-to-datadog?jmp=cpress&utm_campaign=WW_CP_newsletter_sponsorship_FY19Q1&utm_content=brief&utm_medium=display&utm_source=webopsweekly20180214) MONGODBsponsored [GraphQL as an API Gateway to Microservices](https://blog.codeship.com/graphql-as-an-api-gateway-to-micro-services/) tutorial Everett Griffiths [How I Deployed a Julia Webapp using Genie Framework with Docker](https://blog.hasura.io/how-i-deployed-a-julia-web-app-using-genie-framework-with-docker-1e04b24d3798) tutorial [Julia](https://julialang.org/) is a programming language for numerical computing. Anirudh M [How to Use Vagrant for Ansible Role Testing and Development](https://blog.keyboardinterrupt.com/testing-ansible-with-vagrant/) tutorial [Molecule](https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) is another helpful tool for testing Ansible roles. Christian Stein [$20 Free On A New Linode Account](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsored&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-sponsored) Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hostingsponsored [Building Your Own CDN for Fun and Profit](https://pasztor.at/blog/building-your-own-cdn) story Janos Pasztor [Running a 400+ Node Elasticsearch Cluster](http://underthehood.meltwater.com/blog/2018/02/06/running-a-400+-node-es-cluster/) story Anton Hägerstrand [The History of the Service Mesh](https://thenewstack.io/history-service-mesh/) story William Morgan [Lying to TCP Could Make It a Best-Effort Streaming Protocol](https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/02/01/lying-to-tcp) story Tony Garnock-Jones [Using Google Analytics for Data Extraction](https://labs.detectify.com/2018/01/19/google-analytics-data-extraction/) story An interesting approach to bypassing Content Security Policy. Linus Särud [Running a Modern Infrastructure on Kubernetes](https://medium.com/stashaway-engineering/running-a-modern-infrastructure-on-kubernetes-286ad6dab002) story Pradeep Chhetri [Defining the Perimeter in a Microservices World](https://thenewstack.io/defining-perimeter-microservices-world/) opinion Twain Taylor [Continuous Delivery with GoCD on Chef](https://www.gocd.org/chef/?utm_campaign=chef&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=chef&utm_term=) GoCDsponsored [Molecule: A Tool to Help Test Ansible Roles](https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) tools John Dewey    [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/153) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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