--- title: "The periodic table of DevOps tools" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 175 published_at: "2018-07-18" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/175" --- The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news #175 — July 18, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/175) Web Operations Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/mxa5di7gt9fa1hfepnhz.jpg)](https://xebialabs.com/periodic-table-of-devops-tools/) The Periodic Table of DevOps Tools (above). Source: [XebiaLabs](https://xebialabs.com/periodic-table-of-devops-tools/) [Designing GraphQL APIs](https://gist.github.com/swalkinshaw/3a33e2d292b60e68fcebe12b62bbb3e2) — A tutorial built at Shopify (initially for internal use) based on lessons learnt creating and scaling schemas on GraphQL APIs at Shopify. Shopify Engineering [Do You Need a 'Service Mesh'?](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/do-you-need-a-service-mesh) — Service meshes are becoming a critical component in microservice-based architectures as they make service-to-service communication and cooperation easier to define and manage. George Miranda [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/3299dda6.png)](https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=7-18-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress) [Understand the Latest Trends in Retaining Talent, Bootcamp, and More](https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=7-18-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress) — Containers have become the go-to tool for developers, with an industry usage rate of 49%. Don't get left behind. [Learn more](https://www.digitalocean.com/currents/june-2018/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=7-18-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress). DigitalOcean sponsor [Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI](https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457) — Work is taking place at the IETF 102 hackathon. Still very much a work in progress, [SNI encryption](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-esni-00) makes it possible to conceal server name indicators from network inspection (as this is not currently the case). Nick Sullivan on Twitter [New Amazon EC2 Instance Types Announced: Z1d, R5 and R5d](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-instance-update-faster-processors-and-more-memory/) — The new instance types are all compute or memory optimized with Z1d instances optimized for the highest per-core performance and the R5 and R5d instances aimed at databases and analytics use. Jeff Barr (AWS) ▶[Google Reveals the Secrets of DevOps](https://thenewstack.io/google-reveals-the-secrets-of-devops/) — A 20 minute chat with Google engineers on the tools they use to handle development at scale. The New Stack podcast [Netflix's FAST.com Now Measures Latency and Upload Speed](https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/fast-com-now-measures-latency-and-upload-speed) — [FAST.com](https://fast.com/) is an in-browser connection speed tester supplied by Netflix for users to see if their connections are being limited or shaped, and it now measures latency and upload speeds too. Netflix [Google Compute Engine Now Has 'ultramem' Machine Types With 4TB RAM](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/now-shipping-ultramem-machine-types-with-up-to-4tb-of-ram.html) — Up to 160 vCPUs (a record for any public cloud) and 4TB of memory on a single instance are now available. Unsurprisingly, SAP workloads are a target for such scale. Google 💻 Jobs [DevOps Engineer (Fully Remote)](https://careers.hotjar.com/o/devops-engineer-americas/?source=WebOps) — We asked our DevOps Engineer to come up with recruitment clickbait. He said 'Kubernetes'. Hotjar [Find a WebOps Job Through Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-webopsweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-75452) — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create your profile to get started. Vettery 💬 Stories & Opinions [Seven Best Practices for Building Containers](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/7-best-practices-for-building-containers.html) Théo Chamley (Google) [Poor Password Hygiene Enabled ESLint Supply-Chain Attack on the 'npm' Node Package Management System](https://thenewstack.io/poor-password-hygiene-enabled-eslint-supply-chain-attack-on-npm/) — More on this story at the top of [last week’s Node Weekly.](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/246) Lucian Constantin [Webinar: Actionable CD Metrics. Use Metrics to Improve Your Continuous Delivery Process](https://info.thoughtworks.com/Actionable_CD_Metrics.html?utm_campaign=analytics_webinar&utm_medium=newsletter_ad&utm_source=cooperpress_webops&utm_content=analytics_webinar&utm_term=) GoCD sponsor [An Experiment in Delivering WordPress in 7KB](https://css-tricks.com/delivering-wordpress-in-7kb/) Jack Lenox [Rising Seas Could Cause Problems For Internet Infrastructure](https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/627254166/rising-seas-could-cause-problems-for-internet-infrastructure) NPR [As Cloud Investment Surges, What's the New Normal for Data Centers?](https://datacenterfrontier.com/as-cloud-investment-surges-whats-the-new-normal-for-data-centers/) — Investment in data centers continues to hit new highs. Rich Miller [Hackers Account for 90% of Login Attempts at Online Retailers](https://qz.com/1329961/hackers-account-for-90-of-login-attempts-at-online-retailers/) — Protecting your apps against credential stuffing is key. John Detrixhe (Quartz) [My (Rough) Start with Azure Functions](https://www.raymondcamden.com/2018/07/06/my-rough-start-with-azure-functions) — Raymond Camden tells the tale of his first time using Azure’s serverless platform. Raymond Camden 📘 Tutorials [How We Served Brotli Compressed Files Through Amazon Cloudfront](https://medium.com/engineering-housing/how-we-served-brotli-compressed-files-through-amazon-cloudfront-b9414b70f372) — Brotli is a compression algorithm that outperforms gzip. Rama Krishna [Creating a Custom WordPress Dashboard with MongoDB, Azure, and Serverless Functions](https://scotch.io/tutorials/a-custom-wordpress-dashboard-with-mongodb-atlas-microsoft-azure-serverless-functions) — A developer explains how he’s using the WordPress API to create a custom WordPress dashboard for an enterprise client. Ahmad Awais [How To Run Production Minikube Deployments with Cloudflare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/minikube-cloudflare/) Nathan Franzen 🔧 Tools [debase: Even More Minimal Ubuntu for Containers (with curl and Support for TLSv1.3)](https://github.com/Blitznote/debase) — Did you think [Minimal Ubuntu](https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/07/09/minimal-ubuntu-released) which we linked last week is _as minimal as you can get_? Nope, this project for pure container use goes further. Blitznote [Kubernetes-in-Docker: A Single Node Cluster to Run Your CI Tests Against Thats Ready in 30 Seconds](https://github.com/bsycorp/kind) bsycorp [Nabla Containers: A New Approach to Container Isolation](https://nabla-containers.github.io/) Nabla [runq: Run Regular Docker Images in KVM/Qemu](https://github.com/gotoz/runq) IBM Corp. [httpu: A 'Terminal-First' HTTP Client](https://github.com/hazbo/httpu) — For playing or working with existing HTTP APIs from the terminal. Built in Golang. 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