---
title: "The ops world's convergence on Kubernetes"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 172
published_at: "2018-06-27"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/172"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#172 — June 27, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/172)   

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Geoff Huston (APNIC Labs) Slidedeck   

[Convergence to Kubernetes: Standardization to Scale](https://medium.com/@pingles/convergence-to-kubernetes-137ffa7ea2bc) — 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. 

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[MySQL High Availability at GitHub](https://githubengineering.com/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](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/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](https://blog.docker.com/2018/06/top-5-rated-sessions-dockercon2018/) — 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)](https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2018/06/26/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.](https://medium.com/@pingles/convergence-to-kubernetes-137ffa7ea2bc) 

VMware   

[CloudBees Raises $62M for Its Devops Platform](https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/cloudbees-raises-62m-for-its-devops-platform/) — They also recently acquired Codeship. 

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📘 Tutorials  

[Using API Gateways to Facilitate Your Transition from Monolith to Microservices](https://itnext.io/using-api-gateways-to-facilitate-your-transition-from-monolith-to-microservices-c08fe3489237) 

Daniel Bryant   

[eBook: Efficient Project Management for Small Engineering Teams](https://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/small-engineering-teams-efficient-project-management-aw?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=small-engineering-teams) — Learn how to build trust, buy-in, engagement, and professionalism with your engineers. 

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Nader Dabit   

[AWS Development: The Dark Art of VPC Networking](https://www.verypossible.com/blog/aws-development-dark-art-of-vpc-networking) 

Brian Zambrano  

💬 Stories & Opinions  

[Effectively Using AWS Reserved Instances at Stripe](https://stripe.com/blog/aws-reserved-instances) — 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](https://stackshare.io/sendgrid/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](https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG73/1645/20180625_Lagerholm_T-Mobile_S_Journey_To_v1.pdf) — A deck looking at T-Mobile’s journey to becoming ‘IPv4 independent’. It seems they’re now at 94%. 

Stephan Lagerholm (T-Mobile) slidedeck   

[The Oldest Domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs](https://www.cambus.net/oldest-domains-in-the-com-net-and-org-tlds/) 

Frederic Cambus   

[Nvidia Opens GPUs for AI Work with Containers and Kubernetes](https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-opens-gpus-for-ai-work-with-containers-kubernetes/) 

Janakiram MSV (The New Stack)   

[Envoy vs NGINX vs HAProxy: Why The Open Source Ambassador API Gateway Chose Envoy](https://blog.getambassador.io/envoy-vs-nginx-vs-haproxy-why-the-open-source-ambassador-api-gateway-chose-envoy-23826aed79ef) 

Richard Li   

▶[Building a Dynamic Multilingual Application Server with NGINX Unit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJjaYz8qDPM) — 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'?](https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/06/20/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](https://serverless.email/) may also help you out. 

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[Serverless Migration Strategies: What to Know Before Making the Leap](https://thenewstack.io/serverless-migration-strategies-what-to-know-before-making-the-leap/) 

B. Cameron Gain  

🔧 Tools  

[HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Create Service Mesh Solutions](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/consul-1-2-service-mesh) — Consul 1.2 has added a major new feature called _Connect_ that automatically turns any existing Consul cluster into a service mesh solution. 

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[Saw: Fast, Multi-Purpose CLI Tool for Tailing AWS CloudWatch Logs](https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw) 

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