--- title: "The periodic table of Amazon Web Services" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 220 published_at: "2019-06-12" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/220" --- The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news #220 — June 12, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/220) Web Operations Weekly ..soon to be _**Statuscode Weekly**_ [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/v1560354377/aeqstvugx6explknns2n.jpg)](https://www.awsgeek.com/pages/AWS-Periodic-Table.html) [The Periodic Table of Amazon Web Services](https://www.awsgeek.com/pages/AWS-Periodic-Table.html) — What I found _really_ interesting about this is it’s not built by hand but by [this Python script](https://github.com/AwsGeek/aws-periodic-table) which crawls AWS’s product pages so it’s always up to date. The depth of AWS is frankly mind-boggling and now you can see it in real-time. Jerry Hargrove [The Performance Speed Limits of Code](https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/06/11/speed-limits.html) — How fast _can_ your code go? I think a lot of developers will learn something from this post taking an interesting technical dive into the practical limits of execution performance, right down at the CPU and x86 level. Travis Downs [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bde2cde8.png)](https://hubs.ly/H0jcKmN0) [The Container Conundrum](https://hubs.ly/H0jcKmN0) — We recently surveyed over 800 IT professionals for our 2019 State of Multicloud Report. Learn about how they handle container adoption and management, where the multicloud and cloud native environments are headed, and more. Turbonomic sponsor [Former npm, Inc. CTO Announces Entropic, a Decentralized Package Registry](https://wptavern.com/former-npm-inc-cto-announces-entropic-a-decentralized-package-registry) — CJ Silverio, ousted from npm Inc. last year, stepped back into the limelight at the recent JSConf EU event with a talk covering the history and status of package management and a potential new solution to the current problems. Sarah Gooding [Do You Really Need ReCAPTCHA?](https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/) — If you’ve been on a site and had a Google powered popup ask you to click on parts of a photo that contain traffic lights, you’ve used ReCAPTCHA. Kevin Davis [NGINX Unit: A Modern App Server for Modern Apps](https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-unit-modern-app-server-for-modern-apps/) — NGINX _Unit_ has been around for a while now, but this post digs into _why_ NGINX felt it necessary to introduce yet another app server (of which [v1.9.0 has just been released](https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/unit/2019-May/000152.html?_ga=2.25937279.358560722.1559157506-38542355.1526333391)). NGINX, Inc. [A Look at 'Micro Frontends'](https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html) — How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps. Cam Jackson **Quick bytes:** - A fifth of the world's population lives in Africa and it now has 450m Internet users (32.5% penetration) but [it desperately needs more data centers](https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/06/12/africas-internet-telecommunications-cloud/) of its own. - ["I can well imagine in a few years Nginx will be two-thirds or more of the web servers."](https://www.techrepublic.com/article/when-to-use-an-alternative-web-server/) - GitHub has [hired former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia](https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/github-hires-former-bitnami-co-founder-erica-brescia-as-coo/) as COO. - CERN is [using OpenStack with over 400 Kubernetes clusters](https://siliconangle.com/2019/06/10/from-inventing-the-web-to-colliding-particles-cerns-computer-scientists-manage-data-for-the-universe-kubeconeu-guestoftheweek/) to deal with its huge amounts of data. - Amazon Textract, an ML-powered service for extracting text and structured data from documents, is [now generally available.](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/05/amazon-textract-now-generally-available/) - An outage on WordPress's VIP platform caused numerous top sites to [revert to using the default WordPress theme](https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-com-vip-platform-outage-reverts-sites-back-to-default-themes/) yesterday (including TechCrunch which became a lot more readable for a while). 💻 Jobs [Wanted: Curious Developers with ❤️](https://www.carbonfive.com/careers/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=DB) — Stagnating? 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Dodson, Souppaya and Scarfone [Will the Future Kubernetes Mimic What Facebook Already Does?](https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/10/future-kubernetes-will-mimic-what-facebook-already-does/) — _“If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 .. might be a good place to find inspiration.”_ Timothy Prickett Morgan [Revisiting IPFS: It's Not There Yet..](https://macwright.org/2019/06/08/ipfs-again.html) — [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/) is a peer to peer protocol aimed at creating a universal way of storing and sharing hypermedia. Is it viable to run a Web site on? No, as Tom discovers here. Tom MacWright [How to Get Started with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-to-get-started-with-site-reliability-engineering-sre) — Google SRE Stephen Thorne shares some best practices for starting an SRE team at your own company. Nikki McDonald [Spin Up a GoCD Continuous Delivery Server in Less Than 5 Minutes](https://www.gocd.org/test-drive-gocd.html?utm_campaign=gocd_test_drive&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperpress_webops&utm_content=go_website&utm_term=) — Use new GoCD test drive to see how to solve your CI/CD challenges with our first class pipelines, visualizations, and more. GoCD sponsor [Less Capabilities, More Security: Minimizing Privilege Escalation in Docker](https://pythonspeed.com/articles/root-capabilities-docker-security/) — Don’t run your containers as `root` and run them with fewer capabilities. Itamar Turner-Trauring [Implementing Effective Container Security Strategies](https://thenewstack.io/implementing-effective-container-security-strategies/) Tim Mackey [Meet 'About': The Owner’s Manual for PowerShell](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ITOps-Talk-Blog/PowerShell-Basics-Meet-About-The-Owner-s-Manual-for-PowerShell/ba-p/668443) — `about` files provide detailed information on how different things work in PowerShell. Michael Bender ▶[Discussing the Security of the Web with Let's Encrypt's Co-Founder](https://www.heroku.com/podcasts/codeish/19-securing-the-web-with-lets-encrypt) — A 20 minute chat between Josh Aas, a co-founder of Let’s Encrypt, and Craig Ingram of Heroku (who are now sponsoring the project). Heroku podcast [Project Svalbard, or The Future of 'Have I Been Pwned'](https://www.troyhunt.com/project-svalbard-the-future-of-have-i-been-pwned/) — Troy Hunt has been single handedly running the [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) data breach checking service — now it’s time to take the next step, he says. Troy Hunt [A Collection of Public Kubernetes Failure/Horror Stories](https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories) Henning Jacobs 🛠 Code & Tools [Just Write Code: Improving the Cloudflare Workers Developer Experience](https://blog.cloudflare.com/just-write-code-improving-developer-experience-for-cloudflare-workers/) — _Workers_, Cloudflare’s globally distributed serverless platform, gets a CLI developer tool, the ability to run apps on [workers.dev](http://workers.dev/) without using your own domain, new docs, and a free tier to make it easier to try it out. Rita Kozlov (Cloudflare) [Respond to (and prevent) Incidents with Modern Monitoring and Chaos Engineering](https://www.datadoghq.com/partner/datadoggremlinwebinar/?utm%C2%AD_source=WebOpsWeekly&utm%C2%AD_medium=Webinar&utm%C2%AD_campaign=Webinar-201906GremlinG_) Gremlin sponsor [A Regular Expression Tester for NGINX](https://www.nginx.com/blog/regular-expression-tester-nginx/) — Quickly find out if a regex for a `location` or `map` block matches values as you intend. Rick Nelson (NGINX, Inc.) [IBM Open Sources Razee, a Pull-Based Kubernetes Continuous Delivery Tool](https://thenewstack.io/ibm-open-sources-razee-a-pull-based-kubernetes-continuous-delivery-tool/) Mike Melanson [Certs: A Let's Encrypt Certificate Manager for Kubernetes](https://github.com/math-nao/certs) Mathieu Naouache Curated by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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