The world of containers has introduced a lot of new terms and phrases to developers and sysadmins alike. This post digs into some common terms that are often misunderstood.

A thorough benchmark comparing compute power as offered by Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, Azure Cloud Instances, and bare Intel and AMD CPUs. Bare metal and the largest EC2 instances seem to win the day on the Web-oriented tests.

Get full visibility into your app security, get alerted on critical issues and easily build automated responses against security threats.

Worried you’ve got things like AWS details, GitHub tokens or SSH keys hanging around your project’s git history? Find out for sure with this Go-based tool.

A new DDoS approach leaning on the memcached caching server and IP-spoofed UDP packets. More detail in Cloudflare’s writeup here. Secure your memcached servers ASAP.

A new ecosystem of serverless apps and components that can be easily brought together and hosted on AWS. It’s now open to both consumers and providers.

How do different versions of PHP and HHVM stack up against each other in 2018? In most cases PHP 7.2 takes the crown if your apps support it.

A look at some of the ‘tricks’ untrusted CSS could attempt on a site to monitor users or change the site’s functionality in negative ways.