Issue 76 — July 28, 2016
A thorough guide exploring how NGINX can help with A/B testing, by routing traffic based either on a hashing algorithm or client characteristics.
NGINX
Amazon accounted for 74% of all US consumer e-commerce on Prime Day 2016 — here’s how their infrastructure scaled up to match the traffic surge.
Amazon
Steve Workman takes us through a 9-month journey of how Yell.com moved to HTTPS.
Pusher
In this eBook we will have a look at the Traditional Stack, the Virtual Machine Stack and the Container Stack.
Codeship   sponsored 
How does deploying microservices affect your dev and ops teams, team leads, and your organization as a whole? Daniel Bryant explains.
Daniel Bryant
A complete walkthrough of creating multiple secure (SSL/TLS, Qualys SSL Labs A+) sites within LXD containers using HAProxy and Let’s Encrypt.
Simos Xenitellis
Big industry news. StackPath believes it has the key (and size) to fighting malicious hackers once and for all. It has acquired MaxCDN, Fireblade, Cloak and Staminus to see out its goals.
Ingrid Lunden
A look at the problems and solutions around scaling up the management of WebSocket connections.
Wolfram Hempel
Jobs
Slate is hiring a senior web developer to help us build the next iteration of slate.com with the rest of our team in Washington, DC. We're putting a new front end and CMS on top of our Django Content API. Come join us.
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In brief
Probably not a huge surprise given its rapid popularity.
Matt Weinberger
Let’s Encrypt
The New Stack
Teach & inspire learners worldwide. Grow & establish your personal brand. Be an author. Make a difference.
PLURALSIGHT   sponsored 
Benjamin Young
Writing systemd Units   tutorial 
Vidar Hokstad
Gojko Adzic
A comprehensive guide to setting up your own cluster.
Elad Nava
Kristof Berger
SmartNews is a heavily data-driven organization and its use of numerous tools and services is striking.
Amazon
Troy Hunt
Erik Duindam
Rebuilding a career, jumping into the unknown
Chris Dodds
A white hat was able to download Vine’s entire source code by getting hold of its Docker images.
avicoder
An academic paper.
Foremski, Plonka, Berger
High Scalability
Sam Ghods
Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Software application errors.
Rollbar   sponsored 
Kubernetes
A commercial tool with a trial.
Eastwest
Dutch Coders