The European Court of Justice has ruled that the US-EU Safe Harbor agreement for sharing consumer data is invalid. This has implications for Web services as in many cases it will become illegal or difficult for EU companies to store certain data with US based services (think email, payment, hosting, etc.)
A thesis on where things are coming together in the world of containers, orchestration, and PaaS - and some predictions for the future of modern Web deployment stacks.
Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine (which effectively acts like a document database too) and Amazon have launched a new service around it.
Paul reflects on the issues of building a podcast player app using Web technologies when cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) issues make it difficult to fetch third party resources without proxying.
Weblight is a Google system for transcoding Web pages into a form optimized for delivery over slow networks, but it’s not without flaws notes Annkur P Agarwal.
Amazon continues on its roll of launching new services on AWS with a pay-as-you-go system to increase the protection of your apps against web-based attacks.
Come lead the Server Wranglin’ department at StatusPage.io. Looking for someone with a few years of experience architecting, configuring, and deploying production-grade applications.
Till now, Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES) has been focused on sending mail, but now it can also be used to receive email messages for entire domains or individual addresses.