Issue 93 — November 30, 2016
An overview of the reasons for the development of HPACK header compression and the hidden bandwidth and latency benefits it brings.
Cloudflare Blog
A look at some performance-tuning concepts and a walk through tuning options for HAProxy when installing and configuring it as a load balancer.
Ben Cane
An online tool that creates disposable URLs to which requests are logged.
webhook.​site
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.
Redisgreen   sponsored 
An attempt at comparing two of the largest cloud providers on their relative costs. Google appears to come out ahead.
The HFT Guy
Kontena is an open source full-stack solution including all the functionality you need to run apps packaged as Docker containers in production.
Kontena Blog
Syscall Auditing at Scale  
The security operations team at Slack has built a tool to replace Linux’s auditd for better monitoring of Linux servers in production.
Ryan Huber
A look at how GitLab is scaling and why moving away from cloud providers was necessary to get the performance they required.
GitLab
A project from Baidu billed as ‘an Internet-scale database’ inspired by Google’s BigTable and designed for real-time applications working at up to petabyte scale.
Baidu
Amazon has unveiled a new way for you to centrally manage all the AWS accounts your organization owns.
Amazon Web Services
Real Talk about HTTPS   video 
A look at the use of HTTPS on the Web, why you should be using it more, and what Google is doing to push things forward.
Emily Schechter
Build and deploy a JavaScript-powered microservice from your browser.
Stdlib
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The New York Times
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In brief
Stable maintained releases of Docker will be published by Docker as snap packages on Ubuntu.
Docker
AWS Lambda takes 96% of the market so far.
Serverless
The New Stack
Learn how the DreamFactory REST API service platform is being used by the Healthcare Industry, and get inspired with some recent customer examples.
DreamFactory   sponsored 
Learn how to create a cache-aware HTTP/2 server push mechanism using a back-end language and cookies.
Jeremy Wagner
André Laszlo
Michael Skiba
A look at producing faster ‘almost perfect’ answers in analytics/BI scenarios.
High Scalability
Patrick Hamann
This talk covers the basics of Ansible, a powerful IT automation tool, and how you can harness it in your team. 6 minutes
Ashmita Sarma
“Why PaaS and Docker might not be useful anymore.”
Oliver Wolf
Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Node errors.
ROLLBAR   sponsored 
Learn about cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and perform a few of your own to progress through the challenges.
Google
Jakub Janczak
NCC Group Plc
hartator
Timothee Tosi