The folks at the British Government Digital Service found it was time to start writing tests for their NGINX configuration. Here’s why and how.

Vitess is a storage platform for scaling MySQL that combines important MySQL features with the scalability of a NoSQL database. Google uses it within YouTube’s infrastructure.

After a surge of traffic from Hacker News brought things to a crash, a company rebuilt their stack with performance best practices in mind, now getting 94/100 on Google’s PageSpeed Insights. Here’s how.

When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. Now available for iOS and Android, so you can do ops when you’re AFK. WebOps weekly readers get $100 credit.

A look at latency issues that can arise from operations performed on Web servers in private subnets on AWS.

NGINX and FreeBSD run on all of the delivery appliances within Netflix’s content delivery network.

An interesting paid ‘service’ where a guy will get totally drunk and see if your site is still usable. The price keeps going up so he must be getting interest!