Get an instant report of how a site measures up to best practices. Looks at things like XSS, HTTP Strict Transport Security, TLS, secure cookies, etc.

A new pay as you go service from Amazon for offering managed, public APIs to implementations running on Lambda, EC2, or other servers. This could change the way many build and deploy apps online.

Lara Hogan looks at the art of communicating the importance of Web performance to stakeholders and the power of visualizing performance factors in that.

Join our OpsCast, RUM + Synthetic: Filling the Gaps with Complete Monitoring, on July 16 at 2PM (EST) to learn how to pair synthetic and RUM monitoring for a comprehensive monitoring solution. You'll learn how synthetic monitoring and RUM provide complete web performance insight, how to create an effective troubleshooting workflow, and the ramifications of incomplete monitoring.

But used by 7.5% of the top 1000 sites. Further, 96.5% of all HTTP/2 sites are allegedly running on the LiteSpeed server.

Kubernetes is Google’s open source multi-host container management toolset. 1.0 is now available, although the official launch will be coming at OSCON next week.

The first in a (completed) three part series on NGINX monitoring. This first outing looks at basic activity and performance metrics you can work with.

Rather awesomely, you can pick up a preview edition free.

Reflections on 4 new Amazon Web Services offerings rapidly announced in quick succession last week.

Reflections on Amazon’s new API Gateway service and two of its major shortcomings.