Issue 74 — July 13, 2016
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In a 50 minute talk, Adrian Cockcroft looks at success/failure stories of adopting microservices, overviews what’s next and presents techniques that have led to successful deployments.
InfoQ
An interesting tale of the .int TLD and how the author got a list of all .int domains and discovered a curiously simple way to take one over.
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We’ve mentioned the ‘serverless’ paradigm a lot here lately, and Amazon’s Dr Werner Vogels talked up the value of this paradigm at last week’s AWS Summit in London: “In a serverless world you don’t have to think about containers any more, you just write your code. You glue the different pieces together that are all managed. They are managed for you.”
The Register
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GitHub is a frequent target of denial of service attacks. Theo Julienne looks at the form these attacks can take and a new tool they’ve open sourced to help mitigate SYN flood attacks.
GitHub Engineering
A thorough look at using Traefik as a frontend proxy to microservices. Traefik is interesting as it can dynamically manage the services it services requests for via Docker events.
Hypriot
EFS is now production ready in 3 AWS regions. This walkthrough looks at running a Postgres container on EFS and what benefits that brings.
Noah Zoschke
A look at Kubernetes’ high level architecture, if you’re not yet familiar with Google’s open source container orchestration system.
Nune Isabekyan
AWS OpsWorks is a config management service for configuring applications using Chef. This tool makes it easier to work with.
Plivo Inc
Deploying ELK with Docker  
How to use Docker’s logging tools to collect and manage logs with Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana (aka ELK).
Matthieu Buffenoir
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In brief
Led by Netflix's Jem Young, this full-day workshop covers everything to do to build a webserver to host your very own web app, from setting up DNS and Nginx to configuring node and building a JS deploy system.
ForwardJS   sponsored 
You can now attach resizable, separate SSD block storage volumes to your DO instances.
DigitalOcean
Ben Dickson discusses four major challenges presented by IoT, from privacy and security to connectivity and compatibility/longevity.
Sitepoint
Vivek Juneja
A look at self-healing resets, health-check probes, and live restores.
Luis Herrera Benítez
A way to reduce the size of your PNGs (often significantly) in a lossless fashion.
Ariya Hidayat
cuddletech
Milan Aleksić
A freely readable online book for Phoenix/Elixir users.
Dustin Farris
Luiz Rogerio
Thoughts gleaned from the web performance discussions at O’Reilly Velocity Conference.
Ben Halpern
“Our nightmare on Amazon EC2 Elastic Container Service (ECS) and how we saved ourselves by moving to Kubernetes”
Bilal Aslam
CloudFlare
Peter Lawrey
Join developers at Intel and 500px who are using Semaphore to test and deploy their apps quickly and reliably.
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A quick reference cheat-sheet providing a high-level overview of the typical commands you could run for performing a penetration test.
High On Coffee
A new (commercial) automatic compliance testing tool.
Dependency CI
Kiran 'CK' Oliver
A quick video looking at Chalice, the recently published preview of the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS.
Peter Moon

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