---
title: "Comparing Kubernetes solutions on the major cloud platforms"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 187
published_at: "2018-10-10"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/187"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#187 — October 10, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/187)   

Web Operations Weekly 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/lpgvpj4sp1l5iwpziags.jpg)](https://code.fb.com/open-source/stateservice/)  

[Facebook StateService: Automating Recovery of Third-Party Services After Outages](https://code.fb.com/open-source/stateservice/) — _StateService_, now open sourced, is a system Facebook uses to restart VM-hosted third party services after outages without having to rely upon manual effort. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/facebookincubator/StateService) 

Facebook Code   

[Google GKE vs Microsoft AKS vs Amazon EKS](https://kubedex.com/google-gke-vs-microsoft-aks-vs-amazon-eks/) — A comparison between the Kubernetes deployment and management services offered by three major cloud platforms. 

Steven Acreman   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/b128c7a0.png)](https://blog.digitalocean.com/spaces-now-includes-cdn/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=10-10-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress) 

[Deliver Web Assets Up to 70% Faster with Spaces Object Storage](https://blog.digitalocean.com/spaces-now-includes-cdn/?utm_source=paid_newsletter+webops+weekly&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=2018_Brand&utm_content=10-10-18+webops+weekly+cooperpress) — Spaces object storage now includes a built-in CDN, providing global edge caching to improve user experience. 

DigitalOcean sponsor   

[Netlify Raises $30M For Its 'Application Delivery Network'](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/10/09/netlify-raises-30m-to-replace-webservers-with-a-global-application-delivery-network/) — The company have engineered a new platform “_where content and applications are created directly on a global network, bypassing the need to ever setup or manage servers”_. 

Netlify   

[Buildpacks Go Cloud Native](https://blog.heroku.com/buildpacks-go-cloud-native) — Heroku and the CNCF are [collaborating on the development](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/10/03/cncf-to-host-cloud-native-buildpacks-in-the-sandbox/) of ‘Cloud Native Buildpacks’ (CNB) that turn source code into Docker images so developers don’t have to focus on setting up the environment in which their code runs. 

Heroku   

[661 TBit/s, Efficiently, Over A Single Fiber Optic Cable](https://frontnet.eu/new-milestone-661-tbit-s-data-rate-over-a-fiber-optic-cable-reached/) — The achievement, which is solely [in the domain of research for now](http://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/nyheder/2018/09/researchers-send-661-tbits-through-single-optical-fibre), sent more traffic than currently used by the entire Internet over a single cable. The key achievement, though, is the technique used is particularly energy efficient. 

Alex Ronin   

[Stack Exchange is Migrating to .NET Core](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/316278/the-road-to-net-core-please-help-stack-exchange-test-ef-core) — While it’s sometimes claimed the .NET _Core_ platform isn’t mature enough to port over large, existing code bases, the creators of Stack Overflow are ready to go. Microsoft have also [written on the future of .NET here](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/10/04/update-on-net-core-3-0-and-net-framework-4-8/), including explaining how the .NET Framework and .NET Core relate to one another. 

Nick Craver (Stack Exchange)  

💻 Jobs  

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Anynines   

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Hired  

💬 Stories & Opinions 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/oflo4rgmusakuozubckk.jpg)](https://code.fb.com/core-data/akkio/)  

[Managing Data Store Locality at Facebook Scale with Akkio](https://code.fb.com/core-data/akkio/) — A look at an interesting system Facebook has built to efficiently store data at a granular scale (in ‘microshards’) across the globe without having entire replicas in each datacenter. 

Facebook Code   

[DNS Security Remains An Issue in Tech Industry](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/dns-security-still-an-issue-1810.html) — Here’s a lay of the land along with some proposed solutions. 

Larry Seltzer   

[@here, Is Anyone Using Staging-1?](https://www.checkt.app) — Check in and out shared resources in Slack and stop interrupting co-workers when you need something. 

checkt sponsor   

[Validating Performance and Reliability of the New Dropbox Search Engine](https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/10/validating-performance-and-reliability-of-the-new-dropbox-search-engine/) 

Dropbox Tech Blog   

[How We Store Data in the Cloud at Auth0](https://auth0.com/blog/how-we-store-data-in-the-cloud-at-auth0/) — MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis all have a role to play at the popular authentication-as-a-service provider. 

Dirceu Tiegs   

[Risk Detection Infrastructure at Postmates](https://blog.postmates.com/risk-detection-infrastructure-postmates-ce79660850b9) — Postmates is a logistics company which has payment-related risks to manage. 

Ayush Bharadwaj (Postmates)  

📘 Tutorials  

[How to Better Watch Your AWS Costs Before You Forget](https://blog.kylegalbraith.com/2018/10/08/how-to-better-watch-your-aws-costs-before-you-forget/) — No-one wants to get a nasty surprise in their AWS bill at the end of the month. Here’s one approach to tracking things. 

Kyle Galbraith   

[Service Imports Make Config Management Easier Than Ever](https://www.manifold.co/story/configuration?utm_campaign=WebOps&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_content=Oct10) 

Manifold sponsor   

[Using Serverless on GCP to Add Custom Intelligence to Gmail](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/adding-custom-intelligence-to-gmail-with-serverless-on-gcp) — A look at what’s involved with building Gmail extensions with Cloud Functions and other fully-managed services on GCP. 

Google Cloud Blog   

[Patterns for Distributed Transactions Within a Microservices Architecture](https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/10/01/patterns-for-distributed-transactions-within-a-microservices-architecture/) — Managing distributed transactions across multiple microservices poses numerous challenges. 

Keyang Xiang   

['What I Learned From The CI of Facebook and Their Open Source Projects'](https://blog.theodo.fr/2018/10/tips-build-better-circle-ci-facebook/) — 4 tips on how to better use a continuous integration system in order to focus on what matters instead of busy work. 

Aurélien Le Masson   

[How to Manage Prometheus High-Availability with Postgres and TimescaleDB](https://blog.timescale.com/prometheus-ha-postgresql-8de68d19b6f5) — [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) is a popular open source monitoring system. 

Niksa Jakovljevic   

[How to Secure Your Server Room](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/how-to-secure-your-server-room-1809.html) 

Steven Vaughan-Nichols  

🔧 Tools  

[PostGraphile v4: A GraphQL API for Your PostgreSQL Database](https://medium.com/@Benjie/postgraphile-v4-released-9dcb117d3e69) — Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get an high-performance GraphQL API for your database. 

Benjie Gillam   

[RoadRunner: A High Performance PHP Application Server](https://github.com/spiral/roadrunner) — Handles load balancing and process management and can be used to replace a classic Nginx+FPM setup. 

Spiral Scout   

[HTTPS-PORTAL: An Automated HTTPS Server](https://github.com/SteveLTN/https-portal) — Powered by Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Docker. 

Weiyan Shao         

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