---
title: "Google's new site reliability handbook"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 177
published_at: "2018-08-01"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/177"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#177 — August 1, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/177)   

Web Operations Weekly 

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▶[Serverless Computing with Google Cloud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdhVXKf_WSs) — Siraj is a fantastic YouTuber who covers a _lot_ of AI/machine learning topics in a very accessible way, and he brings his approach to using Google Cloud’s suite of services in this information-packed 10 minute video. 

Siraj Raval   

[Google's New Book: 'The Site Reliability Workbook'](http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/7/25/googles-new-book-the-site-reliability-workbook.html) — Freely downloadable until August 23 ([direct link to the PDF](https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/the-site-reliability-workbook-next18.pdf)), this new book is packed with concrete examples and case studies of putting SRE principles and practices to work. 

High Scalability   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/eaaf2655.png)](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/kubernetes-networking-under-the-hood?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=8-1-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress) 

[Understand Kubernetes Networking Under the Hood](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/kubernetes-networking-under-the-hood?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=8-1-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress) — Understand the internal networking infrastructure, building blocks, and the hop-by-hop journey of packets. 

DigitalOcean sponsor   

[How Cloudflare Scaled NGINX and 'Saved The World 54 Years Every Day'](https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-scaled-nginx-and-saved-the-world-54-years-every-day/) — The popular CDN and DDoS protection company now serves over 10 million requests per _second_ from 151 data centers. Such demand has resulted in many modifications to their version of NGINX in order to handle the growth/scale - this post explores one such modification. 

Ka-Hing Cheung   

[Google's Cloud Functions Now Generally Available](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/bringing-the-best-of-serverless-to-you.html) — [Cloud Functions](https://cloud.google.com/functions/) is Google’s serverless, event-driven compute service and now GA supporting Python 3 and Node.js. There’s also a serverless add-on for Google Kubernetes Engine on the way, and an alpha program for running _containers_ serverlessly on Cloud Functions. There’s [a video of the session](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1sRy0Q2qig) covering these releases too. 

Google   

[Portable Cloud Programming for Go(lang) with Go Cloud](https://blog.golang.org/go-cloud) — The Go core team has released an _alpha_ of [Go Cloud](https://github.com/google/go-cloud), a set of tools and abstractions to make migrating Go code between cloud providers extremely simple. _“Think database/sql for cloud products,”_ they say. GCP and AWS are supported so far. 

Eno Compton and Cassandra Salisbury  

💻 Jobs  

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📘 Tutorials, Stories & Opinions  

[A Brief History of Containers](https://mesosphere.com/blog/brief-history-containers/) — How the abstraction of containers and the granularity of microservices are changing the face of software architecture, development, and operations. 

Matt Sarrel   

[Location-Aware Distribution: Configuring Servers at Scale at Facebook](https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/location-aware-distribution-configuring-servers-at-scale/) 

Ali Haider Zaveri (Facebook)   

[Continuous Delivery on Modern Infrastructure - Run GoCD on Kubernetes](https://www.gocd.org/kubernetes/?utm_campaign=Kubernetes&utm_medium=newsletter_ad&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=kubernete_lp&utm_term=) 

GoCD sponsor   

[This One Line of JavaScript Made FT.com 10 Times Slower](https://medium.com/ft-product-technology/this-one-line-of-javascript-made-ft-com-10-times-slower-5afb02bfd93f) — A journey into a performance degradation… 

Arjun Gadhia   

[Repairing Network Hardware at Scale with SRE Principles](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/08/repairing-network-hardware-at-scale-with-sre-principles.html) 

James O'Keeffe (Google)   

[Notes on Moving from CloudFlare to StackPath](https://notes.ayushsharma.in/2018/07/moving-from-cloudflare-to-stackpath) 

Ayush Sharma   

[A Pragmatic Take on REST Anti Patterns](https://nordicapis.com/a-pragmatic-take-on-rest-anti-patterns/) 

Chris Wood   

[Configuring Permissions in Kubernetes with RBAC](https://medium.com/containerum/configuring-permissions-in-kubernetes-with-rbac-a456a9717d5d) 

Containerum   

[Hit the Ground Running with Distributed Tracing Core Concepts](https://medium.com/nikeengineering/hit-the-ground-running-with-distributed-tracing-core-concepts-ff5ad47c7058) — Confused by distributed tracing? Start here. 

Nic Munroe  

🔧 Tools  

[Teleport 2.7 Released: DevOps 'Best Practices in a Box'](https://gravitational.com/blog/teleport-release-2-7/) — Teleport is a privileged SSH access manager for elastic compute infrastructure. 

Gravitational   

[Stop with the Endless Integrations. Collect Data Once, Send It Anywhere](https://segment.com/product?utm_source=webops&utm_medium=emailspn&utm_campaign=brand&utm_content=prod) 

Segment sponsor   

[Kubeval: A Validator for Kubernetes Configuration Files](https://github.com/garethr/kubeval) 

Gareth Rushgrove   

[vhost-gen: Configurable Virtual Host Generator for Apache 2.2, Apache 2.4 and NGINX](https://github.com/devilbox/vhost-gen) 

cytopia   

[Netlify CMS 2.0 Launches with Bitbucket Support and a New Monorepo Architecture](https://www.netlifycms.org/blog/2018/07/netlify-cms-2-0-launches-with-bitbucket-support-and-a-new-monorepo-architecture/) 

Netlify   

[Terraforming: Export Existing AWS Resources to Terraform Style](https://github.com/dtan4/terraforming) 

Daisuke Fujita         

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