--- title: "The Internet is 50 years old.. sort of" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 240 published_at: "2019-10-30" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/240" --- plus an explanation of DNS encryption, code that changed the world, and where 'Lena' is now. #240 — October 30, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/240) StatusCode Covering the week's news in software development, infrastructure, ops, platforms, and performance. [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/kw8o34pkjlhjegexrl0n.jpg)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/fifty-years-ago/) [Fifty Years Ago When The First Packets Flowed..](https://blog.cloudflare.com/fifty-years-ago/) — This week we’re celebrating the _50th_ anniversary of the first full system test and remote host-to-host login over the _Arpanet_, the key predecessor to today’s Internet. Steve (who invented RFCs) and Bill were both there and tell the story. FastCompany has [a full feature story](https://www.fastcompany.com/90423457/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-in-room-3420) on the topic too, as well as Cloudflare’s write up about [50 Years of The Internet](https://blog.cloudflare.com/50-years-of-the-internet-work-in-progress-to-a-better-internet/) which goes into more depth about how the early Internet grew. Steve Crocker and Bill Duvall [The Lines of Code That Changed Everything](https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html) — A fantastic high level look at the bits of code that have ‘transformed our world’ from Spacewar and the JPEG algorithm to the Morris Worm and RSS. Slate Magazine [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/b4736c78.png)](https://www.nextrelease.io?utm_source=status_code_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2019-Q4&utm_content=automate-release) [Next Release Is DevOps for Your Release Notes](https://www.nextrelease.io?utm_source=status_code_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=2019-Q4&utm_content=automate-release) — Next Release automates creating, sharing, and distributing release notes and changelogs based on your existing GitHub pull requests. With tons of configuration options. Next Release sponsor [DNS Encryption Explained](https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-encryption-explained/) — Just as the web moved from unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS there are now upgrades to the DNS protocol that encrypt DNS itself and this post illustrates the key concepts well. Peter Wu ▶[The Planet Performance Podcast](https://podcast.perfplanet.com/) — We wouldn’t normally link to a podcast with just one episode but Steve Souders has done so much for the Web performance community and industry is general, so definitely check this out. Stoyan Stefanov podcast **Quick bytes:** - Linode has joined several other major cloud providers by [offering an S3-compatible object storage service.](https://www.linode.com/2019/10/30/linode-object-storage-is-here/) - A study suggests that of (the relatively few) sites using WebAssembly so far [about half are using it for 'malicious' purposes.](https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/WebAssembly-wasm-malicious-usage/) - "Lena" was a model in the 1970s whose photo was used in the development of JPEG and other graphical systems. WIRED has [tracked Lena down](https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs/) and shared her story. - Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, [is leaving Dropbox.](https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you--guido) - A [1 petabit per second network node](https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2019/10/17-1.html) has been demonstrated. For context, that's 125 terabytes _per second_. - Google is now letting other companies [use its `.new` TLD.](https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/google-brings-its-new-domains-to-the-rest-of-the-web-including-to-spotify-microsoft-others/) - The [White House's cybersecurity chief has quit](https://thenextweb.com/politics/2019/10/25/white-house-cybersecurity-chief-quits-says-leadership-is-inviting-an-attack/) with a suggestion that leadership is 'inviting an attack' by its practices. 💻 Jobs [DevOps / System Engineer - Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, BOSH](https://www.anynines.com/career/devops-system-engineer?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=StatusCode%20Weekly&utm_campaign=devops-system-engineer) — Are you interested in building and operating highly automated PaaS solutions? 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Sqreen sponsor [Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline by Integrating Jenkins with AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/setting-up-a-ci-cd-pipeline-by-integrating-jenkins-with-aws-codebuild-and-aws-codedeploy/) — Trigger a CI/CD pipeline by pushing changes to GitHub with the end result being deployed via CodeDeploy. Noha Ghazal [Migrate Your AWS Lambda Functions to Kubernetes with OpenFaaS](https://www.openfaas.com/blog/lambda-to-openfaas/) — Burton explains the steps for migrating an existing AWS Lambda function to OpenFaaS and Kubernetes to gain portability and additional functionality. Burton Rheutan [The Dynamic Composer: An AWS Serverless Pattern](https://www.jeremydaly.com/the-dynamic-composer-an-aws-serverless-pattern/) — Serverless expert Jeremy Daly shares a scenario where dynamically composing AWS Lambda functions gets similar results to Step Functions but with a simpler setup. Jeremy Daly 💬 Stories and Opinions [The Story of How 22 Became the Port for SSH](https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port) — Sitting between telnet on port 23 and FTP on port 21, it seemed a natural place. Tatu Ylonen [JavaScript is C](https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2018/javascript-is-c.html) — _“The exact same kinds of problems I had in C, I have in JavaScript or even TypeScript today.”_ Chris Krycho [Why We Don’t See Many Public GraphQL APIs](https://medium.com/@__xuorig__/why-we-dont-see-many-public-graphql-apis-ad972bcb201e) — GraphQL is both a great and not-so-great choice for a public API. Marc-André Giroux [DevOps: Tools Can Lead The Culture Change](https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2019/10/25/devops-tools-can-lead-the-culture-change/) Rachel Stephens (RedMonk) 🛠 Code and Tools [Netflix Mantis: An Open Source Platform For Building Cost-Effective, Realtime, Operations-Focused Applications](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/open-sourcing-mantis-a-platform-for-building-cost-effective-realtime-operations-focused-5b8ff387813a) — Mantis is a platform to build an ecosystem of realtime stream processing applications. Netflix Technology Blog [Haxe 4.0 Released: The Cross-Platform Toolkit](https://haxe.org/download/version/4.0.0/) — Haxe is a long standing, cross-platform and multi-paradigm language and compiler perhaps known best for being a source and target for transpilation to/from other programming languages. Haxe [Sell Your API-First Product to Millions of Developers](https://www.manifold.co/?utm_source=status_code&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=oct30) Manifold sponsor [Twilio SOCless: Automated, Serverless Security Runbooks](https://www.twilio.com/blog/introducing-twilio-socless) — SOCless is an open source ‘security automation framework’ that Twilio initially built for their own use. It’s built in Python on top of AWS Lambda. Twilio [Electron 7.0 Released: The Popular Cross-Platform Desktop App Platform](https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-7-0) — 7.0 brings Electron up to Chrome 78, V8 7.8, and Node 12.8.1 standards, and there’s a new `nativeTheme` API for working with changes to the OS’s theming/color scheme. Electron Team [Beating `wc` with Less Portable, SIMD-Enhanced, C](https://github.com/expr-fi/fastlwc/) — This won’t interest most but I love this stuff. expr-fi [Corkscrew: A Tool for Tunneling SSH Through HTTP Proxies](https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew) Bryan Chan [wstunnel: Tunneling Over The WebSocket Protocol](https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel) Romain Gerard 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