--- title: "A Modern Introduction to DNS" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 160 published_at: "2018-04-04" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/160" --- The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news #160 — April 4, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/160) Web Operations Weekly [How ipdata Serves a Million Daily API Calls from 10 Scalable Endpoints](http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/4/2/how-ipdata-serves-25m-api-calls-from-10-infinitely-scalable.html) — One of those ‘this is our stack’-type case studies we all love, this time focusing on [ipdata](https://ipdata.co/), an IP geolocation API that uses a variety of AWS services to scale around the globe relatively cheaply. Jonathan Kosgei [A Modern (Re)Introduction to DNS](https://powerdns.org/hello-dns/) — An attempt to provide a concise, modern, ‘correct introduction’ to DNS and related concepts. Pretty technical, but all worth knowing. _“The goal is to be a mini “TCP/IP Illustrated” of DNS.”_ Bert Hubert [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/439937c8.png)](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsored&utm_term=webops-weekly&utm_campaign=webops-weekly-primary) [Linux Cloud Hosting Starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo](https://welcome.linode.com/webopsweekly/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsored&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 Hosting sponsor [1.1.1.1: A New, Fast, Privacy-First DNS Service](https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/) — Cloudflare and APNIC have teamed up to provide a new, globally distributed consumer DNS service that’s topping most initial benchmarks. Cloudflare [Announcing the New HTTP Archive](https://discuss.httparchive.org/t/announcing-the-new-http-archive/1294) — The [HTTP Archive](https://httparchive.org/), a site that tracks ‘how the web is built’ has graduated numerous features from beta to final release including [these handy reports](https://httparchive.org/reports) that look at loading speeds, JavaScript use, page weight, and more. HTTP Archive [Introducing Network Error Logging](https://dcreager.net/nel/intro/) — Server logs are useful, but what if you could request logs _from clients_? It turns out the W3C’s Web Performance Working Group are working on an approach called [Network Error Logging.](https://wicg.github.io/network-error-logging/) Douglas Creager [6 Creative Ways to Solve Problems with Linux Containers and Docker](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/6-creative-ways-to-solve-problems-with-linux-containers-and-docker) — An outside-the-box exploration of how containers can be used to provide novel solutions. Sean Kane [Node.js 8.10 Runtime Now Available on AWS Lambda](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-8-10-runtime-now-available-in-aws-lambda/) — You can now develop AWS Lambda serverless functions on top of the Node 8.10 runtime which makes numerous modern JS syntax and performance features available. Amazon Web Services [Are You Earning What You're Worth?](https://oreil.ly/2E065Et) — What can you earn as a web developer? Check out the free O'Reilly Web Salary Survey results and find out. O'Reilly Media, Inc. sponsor [Updating the NGINX Application Platform](https://www.nginx.com/blog/updating-nginx-application-platform/) — NGINX explains what’s coming next for their platform, including NGINX Plus R15, Unit 1.0 (their dynamic app server), and Controller R1 (their management and monitoring tool). NGINX, Inc. [Amazon ECS Now Includes Integrated Service Discovery](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ecs-service-discovery/) Randall Hunt [Google Winding Down Its URL Shortening Service (goo.gl)](https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/31/17184164/google-alphabet-url-shortening-service-closed) Andrew Liptak [Looking Back at 10 Years of Compartmentalization at AWS](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/03/ten-years-of-aws-compartimentalization.html) Werner Vogels [Using AWS Lambdas for Data Lake Monitoring](http://engineering.autotrader.co.uk/2018/03/26/data-lake-monitoring-with-aws-lambdas.html) — How the UK’s largest used car marketplace uses serverless functions for maintaining its KPI dashboards. AutoTrader 💻 Jobs [Web Backend Developer (Fairfax, VA)](http://citystateentertainment.com/jobs/) — City State Entertainment is looking for an ASP.NET dev to help create Camelot Unchained, an RvR fantasy MMO for its studio in VA. City State Entertainment [WebOps Expert? 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Floyd Smith (NGINX) [Executing Commands in Pods using Kubernetes' API](https://blog.openshift.com/executing-commands-in-pods-using-k8s-api/) Marek Jelen [How-To: Low-Risk Continuous Delivery and Deployment 📦](https://try.rollbar.com/low-risk-continuous-delivery-guide/?utm_source=email-nl&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=email-nl) ROLLBAR sponsor [Using Neo4j-GraphQL to Serve a GraphQL Endpoint Directly from Neo4j](https://blog.grandstack.io/using-the-neo4j-graphql-plugin-in-neo4j-desktop-c8a60aa014d9) — Turn the popular graph database into a GraphQL server. William Lyon [Giving Every Tor Hidden Service an IPv6 Address](https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/tor-onions-to-v6-with-iptables-proxy) — I always enjoy this guy’s [networking experiments.](https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/) Ben Cartwright-Cox 🔧 Code & Tools [Introducing the Google Analytics Sample Dataset for BigQuery](https://analytics.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-google-analytics-sample.html) — A dataset for gaining experience with analyzing analytics data with BigQuery. Google [lambdaPHP: Quick and Scrappy PHP Hosting using AWS Lambda](https://github.com/san-kumar/lambdaphp) San Kumar [Wapp: A Web-Application Framework for TCL](https://wapp.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/trunk/README.md) — Built by the creator of SQLite. D. Richard Hipp [Kweb: An Experimental Kotlin Webapp Library](http://kweb.io/) — Interestingly you can interact with the browser DOM as if it were local to the server. 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