--- title: "How and Why Reddit Uses Envoy Proxy" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 196 published_at: "2018-12-19" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/196" --- The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news #196 — December 19, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/196) Web Operations Weekly Welcome to the last issue of the year and thanks for reading over 2018! We'll be back with a round-up of the best of 2018 in two weeks' time. In the meanwhile, we want to recommend _another_ newsletter you might be interested in called [TLDR](https://www.tldrnewsletter.com/?utm_source=woweekly) — it's a daily newsletter with TLDRs of the most interesting stories in tech ([see today's issue here](https://www.tldrnewsletter.com/archives/20181219?utm_source=woweekly)) and it's by one of our readers so you can't go wrong :-) — _The WebOps Weekly team (Peter, Chris, and Za'e)___ [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/euzep4pg6lsarhxrblwm.jpg)](https://redditblog.com/2018/12/18/envoy-proxy-at-reddit/) [How and Why Reddit Uses Envoy Proxy](https://redditblog.com/2018/12/18/envoy-proxy-at-reddit/) — A tour through Reddit’s journey with service communication and how and why they chose Envoy to help keep things organized. Courtney Wang (Reddit) [Build a Serverless Twitter Reader using AWS Fargate](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-a-serverless-twitter-reader-using-aws-fargate/) — Most people think of Lambda when it comes to AWS and serverless, but Fargate is an interesting service that lets you run containers without managing servers and so operates at a different level to Lambda’s function oriented approach. Raja Mani and Luis Pineda [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/9e7cb957.png)](https://get.mux.com/2C0D0ew) [Video Streaming in Just Two API Requests](https://get.mux.com/2C0D0ew) — The developer-first API for building best-in-class video applications. You’re one POST request away from being able to provide data-driven, reliable streams that are playable in seconds. Mux sponsor [The Definitive PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 Benchmarks](https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/) — A thorough performance test of 16 different platforms/configurations (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla) and five versions of PHP (5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3). Unsurpisingly, the most recent version of PHP 7.3 dominated. Mark Gavalda (Kinsta) [Using Go to Build Microservices at The Economist: A Retrospective](https://www.infoq.com/articles/golang-the-economist) — Three years ago, the Economist moved to a Go-based microservice-oriented architecture and now we get to learn the (mostly) good and bad of their journey. Kathryn Jonas [Why On Earth Did We Choose Jenkins for 2019?](https://www.rookout.com/why-on-earth-did-we-choose-jenkins-for-2019/) — One company shares their reasons for using Jenkins in 2019 although this led to a [huge discussion on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/a7atea/why_on_earth_did_we_choose_jenkins_for_2019/) where [GitLab CI](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/) seemed to be more popular. Itiel Shwartz [Red Hat Contributes `etcd` to the CNCF](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-contributes-etcd-cornerstone-kubernetes-cloud-native-computing-foundation) — It’s been encouraging to see several key infrastructure projects being donated to foundations recently (including [Kubernetes itself](https://www.eweek.com/cloud/kubernetes-development-infrastructure-moving-out-of-google-control) and also, this week, [the Envoy proxy](https://thenewstack.io/the-envoy-proxy-finds-a-home-at-the-cncf-amazon-web-services/)). Brandon Philips (Red Hat) 💻 Jobs [Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote)](https://www.stickermule.com/careers) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work. Sticker Mule [Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love](https://www.hired.com/webops) — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. Hired 💬 Stories & Opinions ▶[How Rancher Discovered the Kubernetes Vulnerability](https://thenewstack.io/how-rancher-discovered-the-kubernetes-vulnerability/) — A 20 minute podcast interview with the cofounder of the company that discovered the recent Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2018-1002105). The New Stack [How Airbnb is Moving 10x Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-airbnb-is-moving-10x-faster-at-scale-with-graphql-and-apollo-aa4ec92d69e2) Adam Neary [Scaling Christmas — An Illustrated Adventure](https://medium.com/square-corner-blog/scaling-christmas-an-illustrated-adventure-a2ea739f5451) — OK, you won’t learn much here, but if Christmas-themed operations intrigue you.. Brandon Weaver (Square) [My Journey to Achieving DevOps Bliss, Without Useless AWS Certifications](https://hackernoon.com/my-journey-to-achieving-devops-bliss-without-useless-aws-certifications-a7cbf7c539d1) — _“how I transformed from a naive full-stack engineer struggling with AWS & PaaS providers to loving my life and achieving DevOps bliss”_ Patrick Lee Scott [Configure, Provision, and Access a Kubernetes Cluster in Minutes](https://try.digitalocean.com/kubernetes-in-minutes/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_campaign=K8S_Dev_Signup_Cold_Dec_2018&utm_content=webops+weekly+12-19) — Effortlessly deploy and manage your clusters with DigitalOcean Kubernetes. DigitalOcean sponsor ▶[Reddit’s Serverless and Compute Infrastructure at Scale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nR_SZe03w) — Two engineers from Reddit explain how they’ve used AWS and serverless technologies to serve over 1 billion videos a month. Anand Mariappan and Jesjit Birak [4 Ways Docker Has Changed the Way Software Engineers Work](https://geshan.com.np/blog/2018/12/4-ways-docker-changed-the-way-software-engineers-work-in-past-half-decade/) — Docker wasn’t the _first_ container platform but it certainly popularized the idea and has changed the way many developers work. Geshan Manandhar [How Dashboards are Changing Human Behavior in DevOps](https://thenewstack.io/how-dashboards-are-changing-human-behavior-in-devops/) Jennifer Riggins [Netflix's Learnings From Adopting GraphQL](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/our-learnings-from-adopting-graphql-f099de39ae5f) Artem Shtatnov and Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan (Netflix) 🔧 Tools & Code [Supergloo: A Service Mesh Orchestration Platform](https://github.com/solo-io/supergloo) — A tool to help manage and orchestrate service meshes at scale even if you use multiple technologies for the services (e.g. Istio, Linkerd or Consul). Solo [BloomRPC: A GUI Client for GRPC Services](https://github.com/uw-labs/bloomrpc) — Inspired by Postman and the GraphQL Playground, this tool aims to make it easy to explore and query your GRPC-based services. Utility Warehouse Labs [Goldpinger: A Debugging tool for Kubernetes](https://github.com/bloomberg/goldpinger) — Tests and displays connectivity between nodes in a cluster. Bloomberg [Rendora: A Dynamic Renderer for Zero-Conf Server-Side Rendering](https://github.com/rendora/rendora) — It’s built in Go, but you might find this useful for using headless Chrome to do server-side rendering of client-rendered content for bots, etc. Rendora [A More Secure Domain Registrar](https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/cloudflare-registrar-intro/?utm_source=Registrar&utm_medium=Display&utm_campaign=Cooperpress_Intro_LP) Cloudflare Registrar sponsor [OpsMop: Next Generation Config Management and App Deployment](https://github.com/opsmop/opsmop) — Uses a Python 3-based declarative DSL. From the original creator of Ansible. OpsMop [Grafani Loki: Like Prometheus, But for Logs](https://github.com/grafana/loki) — _“Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus._ Grafana Labs Curated by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) [Change your email address](https://webopsweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) or[Stop getting this newsletter](https://webopsweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*) © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom