#172 — June 27, 2018 |
Web Operations Weekly |
PDF: Is IPv6 Only For The Rich? — APNIC is doing experiments with IPv6 to measure support and are finding the pace of adoption is slowing. India, however, is in the lead thanks to a few progressive companies. Geoff Huston (APNIC Labs) Slidedeck |
Convergence to Kubernetes: Standardization to Scale — An insightful reflection on the increasing popularity of Kubernetes and the effect it’s had on the companies that use it and the ops field in general. Paul Ingles |
Manifold Is the Marketplace for Independent Developer Services — Find, organize, and connect the best cloud services for your application. Manifold sponsor |
MySQL High Availability at GitHub — GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all non-git related things so it’s a critical piece of infrastructure that needs to stay up. This post digs deep on how they keep MySQL highly available. Shlomi Noach (GitHub) |
Architecting Applications for Kubernetes — A guide to some principles and patterns you can adopt to help you scale and manage your workloads on Kubernetes. Justin Ellingwood (DigitalOcean) |
▶ DockerCon 2018: The Top 5 Rated Sessions — Including ‘Tips and Tricks of the Docker Captains’, ‘Message-Based Microservices Architectures Driven with Docker’, and ‘Demystifying Container Connectivity with Kubernetes in Docker’. Jamie Rachel (Docker, Inc.) |
Introducing VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE) — Joining Azure, Amazon, and Google are VMware with their Kubernetes Engine, a Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering. Yet another sign of the convergence upon Kubernetes. VMware |
CloudBees Raises $62M for Its Devops Platform — They also recently acquired Codeship. TechCrunch |
💻 Jobs |
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📘 Tutorials |
Using API Gateways to Facilitate Your Transition from Monolith to Microservices Daniel Bryant |
eBook: Efficient Project Management for Small Engineering Teams — Learn how to build trust, buy-in, engagement, and professionalism with your engineers. Codeship sponsor |
Building Serverless Mobile Applications with React Native and AWS Nader Dabit |
AWS Development: The Dark Art of VPC Networking Brian Zambrano |
💬 Stories & Opinions |
Effectively Using AWS Reserved Instances at Stripe — AWS’s reserved instances can be hard to purchase effectively, but here’s how Stripe automates their AWS capacity planning. Ryan Lopopolo (Stripe) |
How SendGrid Scaled to 40 Billion Emails Per Month — We used SendGrid to send this newsletter to you :-) StackShare |
PDF: Going IPv6 Only at T-Mobile — A deck looking at T-Mobile’s journey to becoming ‘IPv4 independent’. It seems they’re now at 94%. Stephan Lagerholm (T-Mobile) |
The Oldest Domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs Frederic Cambus |
Nvidia Opens GPUs for AI Work with Containers and Kubernetes Janakiram MSV (The New Stack) |
Envoy vs NGINX vs HAProxy: Why The Open Source Ambassador API Gateway Chose Envoy Richard Li |
▶ Building a Dynamic Multilingual Application Server with NGINX Unit — This is a particularly handy talk if you haven’t got your head around why Unit is useful. Nick Shadrin |
Is Serverless Just a New Word for 'Cloud Based'? — “there is some confusion about what it really means and how it really works.” Our serverless newsletter may also help you out. Rick Golba |
Serverless Migration Strategies: What to Know Before Making the Leap B. Cameron Gain |
🔧 Tools |
HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Create Service Mesh Solutions — Consul 1.2 has added a major new feature called Connect that automatically turns any existing Consul cluster into a service mesh solution. HashiCorp |
Linux Cloud Hosting Starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo Linode Cloud Hosting sponsor |
7 Essential DevOps Tools to Maintain Serverless Operations Mark Boyd (The New Stack) |
Saw: Fast, Multi-Purpose CLI Tool for Tailing AWS CloudWatch Logs Tyler Brock |