'The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines' — If getting a very thorough tour of how Google structures its datacenters for its collossal workloads sounds interesting to you, you’ll love this. It’s fascinating reading and packed with diagrams and photos. PDF here.

High Scalability

Five Lessons Learned From Writing Over 300,000 Lines of Infrastructure Code — Bills itself as a “concise masterclass on how to write infrastructure code”.

Yevgeniy Brikman

Expanding the CircleCI Ecosystem: Orbs and the Technology Partner Program — CircleCI just announced its first-ever Technology Partner Program. Our platform is now open to partners to contribute Orbs - first-in-industry configuration packages for CI.

CircleCI sponsor

WebSockets: A Conceptual Deep-Dive — A technical look at the world of WebSockets, the browser technology that can provide a fast, full-duplex persistent connection between a server and client.

Ably

AWS Introduces EC2 Instances Powered By Its Own 'Graviton' ARM Processors — AWS continues its relentless release of new EC2 instance types, this time powered by ARM-based CPUs of its own design. If this intrigues you, one of AWS’s VPs spoke about Amazon’s ‘custom silicon journey’ earlier this year.

Jeff Barr (AWS)

Herding the DNS Camel — Bert Hubert, the founder of PowerDNS and author of RFC 5452 (Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged Answers), shares his views on forces influencing DNS protocol development.

IETF

DevOps Engineer at Clue (Permanent) — Clue is at a pivotal and exciting point in our journey. With 10 million MAUs globally and fast-paced growth, we're building our platform, monetization, and team to support our continued success.

Clue by Biowink

Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details.

Hired

How to Build a Serverless Report Server with Azure Functions and SendGrid — Severless.. server? Nonetheless, this is a fun walk through what’s involved in using Azure Functions’ timer triggers to fire up a process that builds and emails a report.

Burke Holland

What's in a Docker Image? — Not only does it answer the question but shows how to dig around.

Cameron Lonsdale

Transferring Your Linux Images to DigitalOcean with Custom Images — Create and compress Linux and Unix-like virtual disk images and launch them on DigitalOcean Droplets.

DigitalOcean sponsor

Progressive Service Architecture at Auth0 — Learn how to create a mature service architecture for scalability and high availability by building its topology progressively.

Dan Arias

RFC 8484: DNS Queries over HTTPS (a.k.a. DoH)

IETF

How GitLab Spent Two Weeks Hunting An NFS Bug in the Linux Kernel — An in-depth recap of debugging a GitLab issue that culminated in a patch for the Linux kernel.

Stan Hu (GitLab)

Automating Terraform: Infrastructure as Code as a Service

Matthew Smith

Overload Control for Scaling WeChat Microservices — WeChat is a very popular China-based chat system and this paper gives a look behind the scenes as to how it works.

the morning paper

Reliable Webhooks Using Serverless Architecture — “How we made our webhooks more reliable using SQS and Lambda”

Victor Zhu

Can SNMP (Still) Be Used to Detect DDoS Attacks? — SNMP is a protocol for collecting info about devices on IP networks, but SNMP polling is no longer a good way to detect DDoS attacks.

Pascal Geenens

When Not to Use Microservices

Charles Féval

Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification of Web Downloads for the Masses — A look at an academic paper that addresses the problem of verifying the authenticity of downloads.

the morning paper

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights: Interactive Log Analytics on AWS — In a move that’s likely to tread on a lot of other services’ toes, AWS is now providing a fully managed service for ‘cloud-scale’ log analysis.

Jeff Barr

AWS Transfer for SFTP: A Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3 — At 30 cents an hour, you either better have a need for a $200 per month SFTP server or provision it as needed.

Jeff Barr

Shop Like a Developer – Discover and Experiment with Hot New Cloud Services 🔥

Manifold sponsor

AWS Unveils New C5n EC2 Instances with 100 Gbps Networking — If you have too much funding and too much data to shift, the solution is here.

Jeff Barr

Elasticsearch 6.5.0 Released — The hugely popular search server and document database takes another step forward with a new ODBC driver for Windows, new query filters, improved audit logging, minimal snapshots (smaller snapshots that don’t include large generated indexes), and cross-cluster replication (paid customers only, alas).

Elastic

Generate Self-Signed SSL Certificates for Local Development on a Mac — A bash script for generating trusted self-signed SSL certs for local development.

Russell Heimlich