Issue 52 — February 11, 2016
Welcome

I noticed we were at issue 52 and decided to take a look back - it turns out it was exactly one year ago that issue 1 went out :-) Thanks for your support this past year.
A high level explanation of what HTTP/2 means for the Web through its effects on latency, Web development techniques, and Web performance generally.
Clay Smith
With dynamic modules, you can optionally load separate shared object files at runtime as modules – both third-party modules and some native NGINX modules. This contrasts with the previous requirement to statically compile all modules in.
NGINX
Zapier is a tool that automates data flow between hundreds of other webapps, but how does it scale behind the scenes? A great look at their stack and how it all works.
Stackshare
With imgix, integrating responsive images into your stack could not be easier. imgix can connect to an S3 bucket to resize, process, and serve images via CDN. Learn how to improve your images in less than 30 minutes.
imgix   sponsored 
Google Cloud Functions is a lightweight, event-based, asynchronous compute system for small, single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events without a server environment.
VentureBeat
“We use Drone to pull our application source from Bitbucket, run unit tests, build a Docker image, push the image to the Docker Hub and execute a rolling deployment to our servers.”
Joel Weirauch
ngx_mruby makes it possible to implement NGINX modules in Ruby using mruby, an embeddable Ruby interpreter.
Matsumoto R
Prevent your web servers from being flooded by unwanted requests using Amazon’s Web application firewall (WAF).
Amazon
If you don’t want to do ops on your own database, DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database on the AWS platform.
Ravelin
Jobs
The New York Times is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join a small team within NYT Beta. The ideal candidate enjoys a mix of software and system engineering, building tools/services, solving production problems, automation, and working with product engineers to design systems and features.
The New York Times
On Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like Facebook, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week. Try it today.
Hired.​com
In brief
An event for all things related to Vagrant, Terraform, and similar tech.
HashiCorp
Join the first ever Virtual Course for IT Ops to elevate your skills and your site’s performance.
Catchpoint   sponsored 
Route53 for DNS and CloudFront for the SSL endpoint.
Daniel X Moore
Diogo Mónica
Julia Evans
Mahdi Ben Hamida
trivago
David Linthicum
Datawire
MaxCDN
Verify if your server or CDN supports Google’s Brotli compression algorithm.
KeyCDN
Dhaval Kapil
altaircp
David Futcher
Built in Node. Stores and syncs data in realtime. Scales via clustering. Open source.
Hoxton One
Bitnami
An open source, Node-based alternative to commercial realtime pub/sub services with a focus on giving developers control over their own realtime data.
SocketCluster
Miroslav Stampar
Aleksa Sarai
Neglected apps become harder to maintain and upgrade. Sign up to CodeCare and get fixed price ongoing upgrades and improvements for your Ruby on Rails apps.
Reinteractive   sponsored 
A 20 page paper.
Gupta and Shute