Varnish is a popular reverse proxy used to accelerate pages by caching static HTML, but it doesn’t natively support SSL/TLS, as required by HTTP/2. So how can we achieve high performance using Varnish with HTTP/2?

Support for HTTP/2 is finally being released with httpd 2.4.17. This guide provides advice on how to build/deploy/configure it.

A simple online tool that lets you issue requests to two different URLs and quickly see the difference in the headers and body.

StatusPage.io is the best way to build a status page for your app or website. We help companies keep their customers and/or internal teams in the loop during downtime.

The CTO of Segment, a customer data platform, writes about the realities of handling infrastructure while rapidly building a company, including using Amazon Web Services and Docker.

Amazon are relatively tight-lipped on the designs of their custom gear, but here’s a look at what they have revealed recently.

A look at a fundamental concept to keep in mind when implementing a performance culture for your Web projects: the performance budget.

A look at an experimental tool to configure your NGINX instance on the fly to act as a load balancer, abstracting away all the nitty-gritty details of NGINX configuration files with a web-based UI.

“you can now launch Spot instances that will run continuously for a finite duration (1 to 6 hours). Pricing is based on the requested duration and the available capacity, and is typically 30% to 45% less than On-Demand”

Google’s default crawler is now so good that their AJAX Crawling guidance is now deprecated.

Timestamps are used in TCP data segments to monitor round-trip time. This can be very useful but on low latency networks, disabling timestamps can yield minor improvements.