Issue 54 — February 24, 2016
A new ‘Save-Data’ client hint request header available in Chrome and Opera lets developers deliver fast and light applications to users who have opted-in to ‘data savings’ mode in their browser.
Ilya Grigorik
Lets you run large scale load tests from AWS Lambda. Up to 100 lambdas can be spun up, each sending 500-1000 RPS for 50k-100k RPS in total.
Hassy Veldstra
A practical and thorough look at the basics of HTTP/2 as they apply to web developers.
Rachel Andrew
Codeship's Jet lets you use your existing Dockerfiles and images on any registry. Easily spawn up your microservices and run integration tests for your whole system using your docker-compose file. Try it now for free.
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A look at rolling your own internal Nginx analytics with Lua, cosockets and Redis.
Charles Leifer
Anders Berg wrote a spec on which the commonly used Varnish Cache is based.
Varnish Software
How Uber approached building a geofence lookup system in Go and how Go has helped them build and scale it so quickly.
Uber
This is a bit one sided but includes data as well as an interview with Owen Garrett, head of products at NGINX.
The Next Platform
An introduction to linkerd, a modern RPC proxy for microservices that does load balancing, analytics, runtime routing, etc. It’s built on top of a Twitter technology called Finagle.
William Morgan
GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via an icon font - it has switched to SVG. Here’s a look at the why and how.
GitHub
Jobs
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In brief
Maxim Dounin
A new security-focused registrar that demands companies have multiple employees approve changes to domain name settings.
ZDNet
Amazon
The New Stack
Microsoft
Armağan Amcalar
Uva Software
Chris Stump
Are you loading your database up with work it doesn't really need to be doing? If this rings true to you, maybe it's time you met Redis.
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Reza Naghibi
SSL Strip for Newbies   tutorial 
A look at a vulnerability where a site’s access is downgraded from https to http.
avicoder
Ben Wilber
A 30 minute talk.
YouTube
Caroline Donnelly
The New Stack
Quick looks at nmap, tcpdump, iperf, hping3, and netcat.
NetBeez
ClaudiaJS
Lightweight high perf framework for developing and running microservices.
WSO2
Robin Monjo
Arnaud Valensi
reinteractive takes the hassle out of your Ruby on Rails ops with our custom-made, robust and stable Operations as a Service platforms running on your own AWS account. Your app is maintained 24/7 by our dedicated ops team from less than $1 per hour.
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