Nchan is a scalable, flexible pub/sub server, built as an NGINX module. Messages are published with POST requests or WebSockets, and channels can be subscribed to using WebSockets, long-polling, EventSource (SSE), or even interval polling.
“It’s time for the Web to take a big step forward in terms of security and privacy. We want to see HTTPS become the default. Let’s Encrypt was built to enable that by making it as easy as possible to get and manage certificates.”
A walk through a variety of browser add-ons, command line tools, load testers, confirmance verifiers, and more for working with, and debugging, HTTP/2.
StatusPage.io is the best way to build a status page for your app or website. We help companies communicate keep the their customers and/or internal teams in the loop during downtime.
A new service from Amazon that lets you build routing policies in a flowchart-like fashion to manage how your end-users are routed to your application’s endpoints.
Lara Hogan explains how to use metrics to get company VIPs invested in improving the performance of a site, such as showing them how it loads on mobile devices.
“After December 31, 2015, SSL certificates that use the SHA-1 hash algorithm for their signature will be declared technology non grata on the modern Internet.”
PHP 7 was released and promises big performance gains. This article gives a high level overview of why it took so long and what’s going on with PHP overall.
Thoughts on developing microservices and applying a graph processing technique to simulate the decomposition of service architectures into microservices.
CloudFlare has introduced HTTP/2 support for all customers using TLS connections while still automatically supporting SPDY. They explain why here, as well as look at present levels of HTTP/2 usage.
“One of the biggest misconceptions I’ve heard from developers working with Lambda for the first time is that every execution of a Lambda function is entirely isolated and independent.”
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Learn about the new Codeship with native Docker support. Work with your established Docker workflows while automating your testing and deployment tasks. Get free trial access here.
On November 30 and December 1, several of the Internet Domain Name System’s root name servers received a high rate of queries. This report explains their nature and impact.
SSH2 is an interactive command line tool which allows you to quickly ssh to an EC2 instance. You can select from a list of running servers under your account.
