Issue 95 — December 14, 2016
A look at a variety of approaches and tools for testing Web sites using network conditions end users are likely to experience.
Patrick Meenan
An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability. More details.
Docker
An orchestration engine open sourced by Netflix whose behavior is defined via a JSON DSL, that can manage processes, and scale to millions of concurrently running process flows. Repo and more info.
Netflix
This buyer’s guide is designed to help you understand what database management really requires, so your investments in a solution provide the greatest possible ultimate value. Download now.
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The container automation, deployment and scaling tool takes a key step forward and continues to grow.
Aparna Sinha
It supports the main services out of the gate (e.g. CloudWatch, EC2, S3, RDS) and meets several UK standards.
Amazon
A significant amount of detail on how Fastly’s load balancing system works written by three of their engineers.
Fastly
Only available in select regions and unlikely to be cheap, this is aimed at the highest end of AWS customers.
Amazon
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In brief
The New Stack
Igor Šarčević
Reduce image size, speed up builds, and avoid unintended exposure.
Alexei Ledenev
NGINX
Learn how to prepare Elastic Beanstalk for Docker, how to build and push your Docker images to Docker Hub, and how to test and deploy your app to EBS with Codeship.
Codeship   sponsored 
“ECS is quietly, steadily gaining steam”
John Matson
Sid Sijbrandij
“With Font Awesome being used on 73 million websites now, every byte matters.”
Roel Nieskens
Steven Ledoux
Jesse Howarth
Compares only memory, cores, storage and transfer so YMMV.
GitHub
Microservices are a common aspirational pattern today. However, Sean Kelly argues maybe they shouldn’t be.
DZone Integration
Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Node errors.
ROLLBAR   sponsored 
Tim White
snapt.​net
Realtime data delivery platform Ably unites Ably, Pusher, PubNub, AMQP, and STOMP.
Ashley Friedlein
Flexible and uses Docker containers for plugins so you can build them however you like.
agonzalezro.​github.​io
The API can be easily run on AWS Lambda with API Gateway.
DataFire Flows
Skippbox
Kelsey Hightower