---
title: "Reducing Latency and Shifting Compute to the Edge with Lambda@Edge"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 165
published_at: "2018-05-09"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/165"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#165 — May 9, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/165)   

Web Operations Weekly  

[.app TLD Now Generally Available](https://get.app/) — Google’s `.app` TLD is now available for general registration. The entire TLD is in Chrome’s HSTS preload list so HTTPS use is enforced. 

Google   

[Reducing Latency and Shifting Compute to the Edge with Lambda@Edge](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/reducing-latency-and-shifting-compute-to-the-edge-with-lambdaedge/) — A practical look at using AWS’s Lambda@Edge (basically a way to run server-side JavaScript at edge locations) to provide low latency data to clients. 

Amazon Web Services   

[Windows Notepad to Get Support for Unix Line Endings](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/extended-eol-in-notepad/) — If you want to edit Unix config files, say, Notepad has always been a poor choice, but things are looking up.. :-) 

Michel Lopez (Microsoft)   

[How Twilio Improves 'Mean Time To Discovery' with Rollbar](https://rollbar.com/customers/twilio/?utm_source=email-nl&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=email-nl) — "The worst thing that can happen is a customer writes in to the support team to say something is broken... If my 'Mean Time To Discovery' is based on a customer support ticket, I’ve failed." [Learn more about how Twilio uses Rollbar](https://rollbar.com/customers/twilio/?utm_source=email-nl&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=email-nl). 

ROLLBAR sponsor   

[GitHub's New 'Checks' API, A New Way to Connect Integrations and Code](https://blog.github.com/2018-05-07-introducing-checks-api/) — Build more sophisticated tools for continuous integration (CI), linting, and acceptance testing on GitHub. 

GitHub   

[A Recycled IP Address Caused Me to Pirate 390,000 Books by Accident](https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-recycled-ip-address-caused-me-to-pirate-390000-books-by-accident) — Leaving subdomains pointing at IP addresses you don’t control can have unexpected consequences and it’s worth cleaning up unused subdomains to avoid potential domain reputation issues. 

Nick Janetakis   

[How Netflix Optimized Flink for Massive Scale on AWS](https://www.datanami.com/2018/04/30/how-netflix-optimized-flink-for-massive-scale-on-aws/) — Apache Flink is an open source streaming processing platform and Netflix uses it to process data about subscribers’ viewing sessions. 

Datanami    

[DigitalOcean Rolls Out Updates for Its Load Balancers](https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-load-balancer-upgrades/) — Including Let’s Encrypt integration and HTTP/2 support. 

DigitalOcean   

[Mesosphere Raises $125 Million Series D](https://mesosphere.com/blog/series-d/) 

Florian Leibert   

[As Kubernetes Grows, A Startup Ecosystem Develops in Its Wake](https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/as-kubernetes-grows-a-startup-ecosystem-develops-in-its-wake/) — Quite an ecosystem is now building up around the open source container orchestration tool. 

TechCrunch   

[5 Considerations for Continuous Delivery of Microservices](https://www.gocd.org/2018/04/25/five-considerations-continuous-delivery-microservices/?utm_campaign=cd_microservices&utm_medium=newsletter_ad&utm_source=cooperpress_webops&utm_content=cd_microservices_blog&utm_term=) — Five considerations you should keep in mind when designing a CD workflow on microservices architectures. 

GoCD sponsor   

[Lucidchart’s Database Migration to Amazon Aurora](https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2018/05/08/lucidcharts-database-migration-to-amazon-aurora/) — [Aurora](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/) is AWS’s MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database service. 

Lucidchart   

[How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service Product](https://stackshare.io/posts/how-algolia-built-their-realtime-search-as-a-service-product) — An interview-led article about Algolia, the search-as-a-service platform. 

StackShare   

[Ask Hacker News: How Do You Continuously Monitor Web Logs for Hack Attempts?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014818) — Extensive discussion and a lot of suggestions here. 

Hacker News  

💻 Jobs  

[Senior Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA](https://jobs.lever.co/hoteltonight/b0c9e2c4-b082-492e-9261-763bdfc84a29?lever-source=cooperpressmay2018) — Love to travel? Help us build and scale the platform behind the best mobile hotel booking experience out there. 

HotelTonight   

[WebOps Expert? Sign Up for Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-webopsweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-24215) — Top companies use Vettery to find the best tech talent. Create your profile to get started. 

Vettery  

📘 Tutorials  

[A Quick Intro to Kubernetes for App Developers](https://godaddy.github.io/2018/05/02/kubernetes-introduction-for-developers/) — High level, but if Kubernetes is a mystery to you it may help. 

Gergely Nemeth   

[Help! My Microservice Crashed: A Guide for First Responders](https://thenewstack.io/help-my-microservice-crashed-a-guide-for-first-responders/) — Strategies you can employ to understand better what circumstances caused your microservice to crash. 

Mike Mackrory   

[How To Create a Kubernetes 1.10 Cluster Using Kubeadm on Ubuntu 16.04](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-kubernetes-1-10-cluster-using-kubeadm-on-ubuntu-16-04?utm_source=paid_newsletter+WebOps+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=5-9-2018+Webops+weekly+cooperpress) 

DigitalOcean sponsor   

[Building A Serverless Contact Form For Your Static Site](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/building-serverless-contact-form-static-website/) 

Smashing Magazine  

🔧 Tools  

[ipdata.co: An IP Geolocation and Data API](https://ipdata.co/) — Free up to 1500 requests per day. We’ve begun using it to filter out bots and abusive IPs ourselves. 

ipdataco   

[100+ Server Monitoring and App Performance Monitoring (APM) Solutions](https://haydenjames.io/50-top-server-monitoring-application-performance-monitoring-apm-solutions/) 

Hayden James   

[High Speed Networking: Open Sourcing the BBC's Kernel Bypass Work](https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2018-04-high-speed-networking-open-source-kernel-bypass) 

BBC Resarch and Development   

[Virtlet: Run Virtual Machines as Kubernetes Pods](https://www.mirantis.com/blog/virtlet-run-vms-as-kubernetes-pods/) — Run VMs on Kubernetes clusters as if they were plain pods, enabling you to use standard kubectl commands to manage them. 

Ivan Shvedunov   

[curl-runnings: Write Declarative, curl-Based Tests for APIs](https://github.com/aviaviavi/curl-runnings) 

Avi Press         

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