A recently updated collection of articles that seek to provide a first step for developers hoping to ramp up fast on a range of web security points.

gRPC is an RPC framework built upon technology used internally at Google to scale up to tens of billions of requests per second. Now a public release is at 1.0 and ready for full use, says Google.

A fun look at 3 scenarios relating to dropped TCP connections that you can replicate and learn from.

In this free eBook, we introduce the Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Kitematic, Docker Machine, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Docker Cloud, and Data Center. Learn what they are and how they work.

Declan Rek shares real-world advice on boosting front-end performance from static site generation and the picture element to lazy loading CSS and caching.

CloudFlare’s network spans 45 countries so they get a unique perspective on the cost of local bandwidth. Oceania and South America are notably expensive.

“Is multi-cloud a pipe dream? I think not!” says Miles Ward of Google’s Cloud Platform Team. GCP is actively enabling interoperability where possible.

A handy tutorial digging into WebPageTest, a site speed test tool, its RESTful API, and how to use it optimize your own sites.

A standalone job scheduling server focused on simplifying job processing and streamlining coordination - runs as a stand alone TCP server with a simple text based protocol.

A glimpse into the data behind deployments at Coinbase and one way they think about developer productivity. Deployment velocity is a key metric there.