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title: "Microsoft Introduces 'Azure DevOps'"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 183
published_at: "2018-09-12"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/183"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#183 — September 12, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/183)   

Web Operations Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/txv7l7nfs37u4dsxcdra.jpg)](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-devops/)  

[Microsoft Introduces 'Azure DevOps'](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-devops/) — This is essentially an ‘evolution’ of VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) into a suite of new services that work on both public and private cloud including _Pipelines_ (CI/CD), _Boards_ (project management), _Artifacts_ (packages), _Repos_ (Git repo hosting), and _Test Plans_. There’s a jam-packed [hour-long keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrQG9gWgMCE) complete with demos too. 

Jamie Cool (Microsoft)   

▶[Building a Production-Ready Service in Go in 30 Minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkEQxvxs3w) — A well-recorded live coding session from GopherCon UK where a production-ready service is built from scratch and deployed with Docker. 

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Manifold sponsor   

[Latest Chrome Stripping 'www' from Hostnames in Location Bar](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410) — Chrome is hiding ‘trivial’ subdomains (such as `www.` and `m.`) in the location bar, but a lot of people aren’t happy about the change, and it kicked off [one of Hacker News’s biggest discussions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972). You can [turn the feature off](https://twitter.com/press5/status/1038499134930657281) though. 

Chromium   

[Let’s Encrypt at Scale: Using Let's Encrypt on 3000+ Web Sites](https://engineering.autotrader.co.uk/2018/09/04/letsencrypt-at-scale.html) — Popular European car marketplace AutoTrader provides a platform for car dealers to host a custom site (with their own domain) through them meaning that quite a lot of work is necessary to make HTTPS work seamlessly. 

Lee Goodman (AutoTrader)   

[DNS over TLS: Thoughts and Implementation](https://sagi.io/2018/09/dns-over-tls---thoughts-and-implementation/index.html) — Secure, encrypted DNS is possible though not yet _common_. What’s involved and how can we play with the technology now? 

Sagi Kedmi   

[AWS Lambda Introduces Support for PowerShell](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-lambda-support-for-powershell-core/) — I’ll confess I’d much rather they were adding Ruby support, but the more languages Amazon’s serverless platform supports, the better. 

Amazon Web Services  

💻 Jobs  

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Vettery  

📘 Tutorials  

[How to Make a Self-Hosted Video Livestream](https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/26/Self-hosted-livestreaming.html) — If you’d rather lean on your own server and ffmpeg than rely on YouTube or Twitch, this approach may appeal to you. 

Drew DeVault   

[How to Manage Any Kind of Secret with AWS Secrets Manager](https://sanderknape.com/2018/07/manage-custom-secrets-aws-secrets-manager/) — Learn how to write and configure a custom, serverless AWS Lambda function to use AWS Secrets Manager for any kind of secret - in this case for rotating passwords for a MongoDB install. 

Sander Knape   

[8 Steps to Building A Serverless GraphQL API using AWS Amplify](https://read.acloud.guru/8-steps-to-building-your-own-serverless-graphql-api-using-aws-amplify-42c21770424d) 

Nader Dabit   

[Live Stream Video at Scale with Two Simple API Calls](https://hubs.ly/H0dKCtN0) 

MUX sponsor   

[Automate Your Static Hosting Environment with AWS CloudFormation](https://forestry.io/blog/automate-your-static-hosting-environment-with-aws-cloudformation/) 

DJ Walker   

[Automating Cloudflare DNS Record Updates with Lambda & Python](https://joeco.de/serverless/automating-cloudflare-dns-record-updates-with-aws-lambda-python/) 

Joe Garcia   

[Securing MongoDB using a Let's Encrypt Certificate](https://zohaib.me/securing-mongodb-using-lets-encrypt/) 

Zohaib Rauf  

💬 Stories & Opinions  

[Smoother Spotify Streaming with BBR](https://labs.spotify.com/2018/08/31/smoother-streaming-with-bbr/) — _“We flipped one server flag and got more download bandwidth for Spotify users. That is the TL;DR of this A/B experiment with BBR, a new TCP option.”_ 

Erik Carlsson (Spotify)   

[Iterating Towards a More Scalable Ingress at Shopify](https://shopifyengineering.myshopify.com/blogs/engineering/iterating-towards-more-stable-ingress) — Shopify, the popular ecommerce platform, explains how they use (and contribute to) [ingress-nginx](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx), an ingress controller for Kubernetes. 

Shopify Engineering   

[The Cost of Network Downtime](http://www.datacenterjournal.com/30529-2/) — A study by the the Ponemon Institute puts the top three root causes of unplanned outages as UPS failures, cybercrime, and human error. 

The Data Center Journal   

[The History of Infrastructure at Zendesk](https://medium.com/zendesk-engineering/the-history-of-infrastructure-at-zendesk-constant-tradeoffs-bdfa916ff4c3) 

Jason Smale   

[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   

[Generating Random User Agents with Google Analytics and CircleCI](https://intoli.com/blog/user-agents/) — [user-agents](https://github.com/intoli/user-agents) is a Node.js package for producing random, up to date user agents, but this is also the tale of how such data is being obtained. 

Evan Sangaline   

[Hands-Off Deployment with Canary at SoundCloud](https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/hands-off-deployment-with-canary) — SoundCloud uses “canary” releases (releases deployed to a small subset of users) to avoid faulty deployments significantly hitting their userbase. 

SoundCloud   

[Public Cloud Postcentralization is the Thin Edge of the Wedge into the Enterprise](http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/9/10/public-cloud-postcentralization-is-the-thin-edge-of-the-wedg.html) — _“The public cloud is extending its domain of control to the edge of the known world. (…) The edge has always been considered its own proprietary domain. Not anymore.”_ 

Todd Hoff         

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