Issue 89 — October 26, 2016
A look at an issue with HTTP Public Key Pinning that made Smashing Magazine unavailable to many visitors for several days. This could affect you too.
Mathias Biilmann Christensen
A roundup of last Friday’s DNS attack which made numerous popular sites unavailable across the US.
Mark Jeftovic
The story of how LinkedIn has used Akka and its actor model along with Server-Sent Events to build out a powerful IM system for its users.
LinkedIn
RedisMonitor reduces Redis memory usage and saves money by finding large keys, memory leaks, and more. No credit card is required to try it out!
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The Chrome team has announced plans that publicly trusted site certificates issued in Oct 2017 or later will be expected to comply with Chrome’s Certificate Transparency policy in order to be trusted by Chrome.
Ryan Sleevi
A look at how the team behind the npm Node package management service deploy code (it’s a simple git push on the surface, but a lot happens behind that).
The npm Blog
PyWren makes it easy to dispatch small tasks to Lambda from Python with the promise of reaching TFLOPS levels of performance.
Eric Jonas
Microservices, as an architectural approach, can act as a stepping stone to moving to cloud platforms.
Chris Latimer
An interesting approach: This tool measures a page’s weight vs. the size of a screenshot of the same page.
TestDome
TLS 1.3 is a new encryption protocol update that is both faster, reducing HTTPS overhead, and more secure than TLS 1.2.
Brian Jackson
Dawn Anderson
Jobs
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VividCortex
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In brief
Microsoft
Chrome Dev Summit is coming to San Francisco, CA on Nov. 10 and 11! RSVP with code WEBOPSWEEKLY or sign up for livestream updates.
Google Inc.​   sponsored 
“..a new and funny way to play with Elasticsearch to reindex a production cluster without disturbing our clients.”
Fred de Villamil
“A few years ago I had no idea what ‘operations’ was. Now I know a tiny bit more about it so I want to write down what I’ve figured out.”
Julia Evans
How to manage changes as the number of dependencies within your microservices architecture expands.
Christian Posta
Dan York
Henry Mollman
Learn best practices for scaling the frontend in this exclusive ebook for webops and performance teams.
StackPath   sponsored 
The first in a series discussing the standardization of microservice development.
David Thor
Mathias Lafeldt
Squarespace Engineering
How Monzo, a new UK-based startup bank, are building a micro-services core banking platform, and how Kubernetes enables it. Associated slides here.
Monzo
Brief analysis of the growing trend of mobile-accessed video and how it’ll impact the underlying infrastructure.
High Scalability
Chris Tozzi
Prime Directive