---
title: "What is your 'go to' web stack?"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 198
published_at: "2019-01-09"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/198"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#198 — January 9, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/198)   

Web Operations Weekly  

[Hacker News: What Is Your 'Go To' Web Stack Today?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829557) — Someone simply asked the users of Hacker News what Web stack they’re using and.. a flood of interesting replies followed. While opinions about things like React vs Vue and Django vs Rails differed, PostgreSQL was a very common suggestion. 

Hacker News   

[GitHub Announces Unlimited Free Private Repos](https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/) — A late Christmas present comes from GitHub in the shape of their free offering now including unlimited private repositories (something that previously cost $7/mo) with a limit of three collaborators per repo. For balance, [_GitLab’s_ CEO had a response.](https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/07/github-offering-free-private-repos-for-up-to-three-collaborators/) 

GitHub   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6f7202f3.png)](https://get.mux.com/2F9oHap) 

[Responsive Video for Headless CMS](https://get.mux.com/2F9oHap) — We’ve combined forces with [Sanity.io](https://www.sanity.io/) to make it easy to upload and preview videos within their CMS and deliver great video experiences at scale. 

Mux sponsor   

[Is There Hope for IPv6?](https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/01/04/is-there-hope-for-ipv6/) — Competition between IPv4 and IPv6 has implications for the future of the internet - is a mixed-standard Internet a passing phenomenon or could we get stuck here? 

Internet Governance Project   

[SQL is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps](https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3300018) — Should the presence of database administrators restrict your ability to adopt modern devops practices? No, argues Thomas, who then suggests some solutions to any deadlock. 

Thomas A. Limoncelli   

[Big Price Reductions for AWS Fargate](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-fargate-price-reduction-up-to-50/) — AWS Fargate is Amazon’s container based compute engine where you just hand over your containers and it runs and scales them appropriately. Independently, Andy Warzon of Trek10 places [Fargate’s pricing in context](https://www.trek10.com/blog/fargate-pricing-vs-ec2/) to other options. 

Nathan Peck (AWS)  

💻 Jobs  

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X-Team  

📘 Tutorials & Opinion  

[Deploying MongoDB Using Docker](https://severalnines.com/blog/deploying-mongodb-using-docker) — Provides an introduction to deploying MongoDB in a container including concepts like volume mapping and connecting to a MongoDB container from another container using links. 

Akash Kathiriya   

[Improving HTML Time to First Byte with Cloudflare](https://blog.cloudflare.com/improving-html-time-to-first-byte/) — Whatever tools and stack you use, a low ‘Time To First Byte’ will have a huge impact on users. This post introduces a Cloudflare-oriented approach for achieving one. 

Patrick Meenan   

[Inside Stack Overflow’s Monitoring Systems](https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/12/stackoverflow-monitoring) 

Hrishikesh Barua   

[Chaos Engineering Tools: Build or Buy?](https://www.gremlin.com/blog/chaos-engineering-tools-build-vs-buy/?utm_medium=cpm&utm_source=WebOpsWeekly&utm_content=20190109&utm_campaign=2019_Cooperpress) — This post is for teams that are ready to adopt chaos engineering and want guidance on the best strategy. 

Gremlin sponsor   

[How VP9 Delivers Value for Twitch’s Esports Live Streaming](https://blog.twitch.tv/how-does-vp9-deliver-value-for-twitchs-esports-live-streaming-35db26f6322f) — _“FPGA-based real-time VP9 encoding can deliver at least 25% bitrate savings compared to the highest-quality H.264 encoders deployed in Twitch’s production today”_ 

Yueshi Shen (Twitch)   

[A Review of Gloo, The Function Gateway](https://nordicapis.com/review-of-gloo-the-function-api-gateway/) — Gloo is a function gateway for tying together and routing multiple APIs. 

Kristopher Sandoval   

[Risk Management for Engineering Resilience](https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/risk-management-engineering-resilience) 

Anthony O'Connell (ThoughtWorks)   

[How DevOps Should Use DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) To Optimize Development](http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/1/4/how-devops-should-use-dbaas-database-as-a-service-to-optimiz.html) — There are key benefits to outsourcing security and administration in many cases. 

Wendy Dessler   

[The Role of Domain Driven Architecture and GraphQL in Digital Transformation](https://nordicapis.com/the-role-of-domain-driven-architecture-and-graphql-in-digital-transformation/) — Paolo Negri, CTO at Contentful, believes GraphQL can be used for large-scale domain modeling within digital transformation initiatives. 

Paolo Negri  

🔧 Tools  

[Homebrew 1.9.0 Released](https://brew.sh/2019/01/09/homebrew-1.9.0/) — Homebrew is a very popular package manager for macOS and heavily used by developers. **1.9 introduces beta support for Linux and Windows 10.** 

Mike McQuaid   

[Tilt: Local Kubernetes Development with No Stress](https://tilt.build/) — Develop your microservices locally using Kubernetes while collaborating with your team. 

Windmill Engineering   

[Replace Manual QA with Automated Visual Testing. Start for Free](https://percy.io?sponsorednewsletter&utm_source=webops_weekly&utm_medium=sponsored_newsletter&utm_campaign=190107&utm_content=replace+avt+free&utm_%20term=brief) 

Percy sponsor   

[jinx: A Wrapper for Managing NGINX](https://github.com/pretzelhands/jinx) — jinx is a Bash script to help you manage NGINX sites and configurations in a streamlined way. 

Richard Blechinger   

[Pingdom to Kill Its Free Monitoring Plan in February](https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/07/pingdom-will-kill-its-free-website-monitoring-plan-on-february-6/) — We thought we’d highlight this news as Pingdom is a particularly popular site monitoring service. 

VentureBeat news         

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