Decide whether you need to use HTTP/2 yet or not and then discover some ways to get the most out of it in this useful article.

At the Chrome Dev Summit, Emily Stark of Chrome’s security team spoke about the motivation for using HTTPS everywhere and what tools you can use to help with any issues you encounter.

Google’s Brendan Burns shows off a simple demo (using Kubernetes) of a Container Engine cluster serving 1 million HTTP requests per second.

Honeywell’s Monitoring Leader Paul Fries will demonstrate how Honeywell has used different synthetic monitoring solutions to improve customer experience around the world, and how you can replicate their methods to do the same. Join Catchpoint's upcoming OpsCast, Delivering the Honeywell User Experience Through OnPrem Monitoring today to learn more.

A way to visualize and manage Docker containers from inside the popular 3D construction game. Surprisingly, this comes from Docker Inc. themselves.

“Achieving very low latencies takes special engineering, but if you are a SaaS company latencies of a few hundred milliseconds are possible for complex business logic using standard technologies like load balancers, queues, JVMs, and REST APIs.”

A collection of links to blogs, talks, social media, and other resources for diving into the world of microservices.

Results from benchmarking VoltDB on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, and Google Cloud Platform.

A look at using a service worker-augumented ‘Application Shell’ architecture to have a cached ‘shell’ for your pages populated with dynamic content. Great article - there’s a lot to pick up here.

Essentially three different ways to lean on spot instances. By using defined-duration workloads, spot fleets, and auto scaling.

Brotli is an open source data compression library formally specified by IETF draft. It can be used to compress HTTPS responses sent to a browser, in place of gzip or deflate.