---
title: "Istio 1.0, Dart 2.0, and Cloudflare Stream"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 178
published_at: "2018-08-08"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/178"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#178 — August 8, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/178)   

Web Operations Weekly  

[Istio Reaches 1.0: Ready for Production](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/istio-reaches-1-0-ready-for-prod.html) — This open-source service mesh project from Google, IBM and Lyft is now ready for production. [More here](https://istio.io/blog/2018/announcing-1.0/). 

Dan Ciruli (Google)   

[Google Announces Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform](https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-2-stable-and-the-dart-web-platform-3775d5f8eac7) — Google says this signals the rebirth of Dart as a mainstream programming language for mobile and Web development. 

Kevin Moore (Google)   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/fba1a2e6.png)](https://www.manifold.co/?utm_campaign=webops_newsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_content=aug8%20) 

[Manifold Is the Marketplace for Independent Developer Services](https://www.manifold.co/?utm_campaign=webops_newsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_content=aug8%20) — Manifold brings together the best cloud services from every category you need to power your application. 

Manifold sponsor   

[Cloudflare Introduces 'Stream', A New Video Streaming Service](https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-use-stream/) — No, it’s not a service like Netflix, but a way to integrate video into an app or site without dealing with the common technical complexities hosting video can throw up. 

Cloudflare   

[How Coinbase Is Scaling Its Platform for Spikes in Customer Demand](https://blog.coinbase.com/how-were-scaling-our-platform-for-spikes-in-customer-demand-4a047cb3139c) — Coinbase has had to adapt quickly to cope with what it calls “waves of cryptocurrency enthusiasm” with its Ruby and MongoDB-oriented stack. 

Luke Demi (Coinbase)   

[Blink Intent to Ship: Support for WebSockets Over HTTP/2](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/7MCjXU3zmCQ/ZSDsTaMuBQAJ) — Currently if a WebSocket is requested from an HTTP server, a new HTTP/1.1 connection must be established even if there is an active HTTP/2 connection. Work is being done to change this. 

blink-dev  

💻 Jobs  

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x-team   

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Vettery  

📘 Tutorials  

[Using Kubernetes to Deploy Postgres](https://severalnines.com/blog/using-kubernetes-deploy-postgresql) — How to run a PostgreSQL database on a Kubernetes cluster using Docker containerization. 

Severalnines   

[How to Migrate Existing Microservices to Serverless](https://blog.binaris.com/your-guide-to-migrating-existing-microservices-to-serverless/) — The challenges you may face in moving some of your microservices to serverless. 

Yan Cui   

[How to Read an RFC](https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc) 

Mark Nottingham   

[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   

[Run Non-SSL Protocols On The Same Port As SSL in NGINX 1.15.2](https://www.nginx.com/blog/running-non-ssl-protocols-over-ssl-port-nginx-1-15-2/) — A look at the new `$ssl_preread_protocol` variable, which allows you to distinguish between SSL/TLS/other protocols when forwarding traffic using a TCP proxy. 

Faisal Memon   

[Building a Serverless Contact Form with AWS Lambda and AWS SES](https://hackernoon.com/building-a-serverless-contact-form-with-aws-lambda-and-aws-ses-fbf01d523678) — A great example of using Amazon’s email service from Lambda. 

Adnan Rahić   

▶[The AWS Free Tier Widget Explained](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lICrHEmiA) — See how the new AWS Free Tier widget can show you how to avoid going over your free tier usage. 

Tia Williams  

💬 Stories & Opinions  

[Herb: Uber's Multi-DC Replication Engine for Its Schemaless Datastore](https://eng.uber.com/herb-datacenter-replication/#) — [Schemaless](https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/) is an interesting MySQL-based datastore Uber uses and here they share how they’ve made it resilient using their numerous datacenters and a technology called _Herb_. 

Himank Chaudhary   

['How I Gained Commit Access to Homebrew in 30 Minutes'](https://medium.com/@vesirin/how-i-gained-commit-access-to-homebrew-in-30-minutes-2ae314df03ab) — How a GitHub API token exposed by a Jenkins (CI) setup gave away the keys to the Homebrew kingdom. 

Eric Holmes   

[​Container Adoption Speeds Up to The Detriment of VMs](https://www.zdnet.com/article/container-adoption-speeds-up-to-the-detriment-of-vms/) — As containers grow more popular, virtual machine deployments are declining. 

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNet)   

[How Facebook Has Deployed TLS 1.3 At Scale with Fizz, A Performant Open Source TLS Library](https://code.fb.com/networking-traffic/deploying-tls-1-3-at-scale-with-fizz-a-performant-open-source-tls-library/) — _“More than 50 percent of our internet traffic is now secured with TLS 1.3.”_ 

Facebook   

[Inside Fortnite's Massive Data Analytics Pipeline](https://www.datanami.com/2018/07/31/inside-fortnites-massive-data-analytics-pipeline/) — How the wildly popular multiplayer game keeps all the data to keep it running together. 

Datanami   

[How Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible](https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites-made-them-less-accessible/) — _“The drive to force every site on the web to HTTPS has pushed the web further away from the next billion users”_ 

Eric Meyer   

[The Security Differences: Containers vs. Serverless vs. VMs](https://thenewstack.io/security-differences-containers-vs-serverless-vs-virtual-machines/) 

Vince Power  

🔧 Tools  

[Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now PCI DSS Compliant](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-elasticache-redis-now-pci-dss-compliant-payment-card-data-in-memory/) — So now you can use ElastiCache for Redis for the processing of sensitive payment card data. 

Amazon Web Services   

[Secure, Affordable Image Processing](https://www.blitline.com/v3/home?ad=0) 

Blitline sponsor   

[Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud The Way Your App Experiences It](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/transparent-slis-see-google-cloud-the-way-your-application-experiences-it.html) — Transparent service level indicators are now available on Google Cloud Platofrm, offering fine-grained detail about the behavior of GCP services as related to your workloads. 

Jay Judkowitz (Google)   

[repo-security-scanner: CLI Tool to Find Secrets Accidentally Committed to Git](https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/repo-security-scanner) — Passwords, private keys, etc. Interestingly, it’s been built at the UK’s Home Office (the UK’s official department for law and order). 

UK Home Office   

[Magma: A Fully Featured, Commercial-Grade Email Server](https://magmadaemon.org/) — An encrypted email system with support for SMTP, POP, IMAP, and HTTP. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/lavabit/magma) 

Lavabit LLC   

[Build, Deploy, and Manage Modern Serverless Workloads using Knative on Kubernetes](https://m.chmarny.com/build-deploy-manage-modern-serverless-workloads-using-knative-on-kubernetes-180c1a55e1b5) 

Mark Chmarny         

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