Issue 96 — December 21, 2016
Welcome

In this issue, we're taking a look back at the best of 2016. If you've missed any issues, this is a great place to catch up with the stories that caught everyone's imaginations in the world of Web operations :-)

We're taking a break for Christmas and will be back in January. Thanks for all of your support this year and we hope you have a great holiday season :-)
Stack Overflow serves up terabytes per day but what equipment and services are they using? This look at how their stack is structured was our most clicked link. Their followup on deployment was similarly popular.
Nick Craver
Twitter handles 200GB of images being uploaded every second. Here’s a brief look at how they handle it vs how it used to work in 2012.
High Scalability
Folks like Jeff Atwood, Patrick Meenan, and Sara Soueidan were asked what common web performance mistakes they see and what single thing they would optimize for.
Brian Jackson
Do you know what's taking up all your Redis memory? RedisMonitor creates an interactive map of your Redis memory to show you. Starts at just $7 per month.
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One of the intriguing parts of the WhatsApp story is that it has achieved such enormous scale with a tiny team.
Cade Metz
The author made a point of reassuring us this was not clickbait :-) The techniques used are prerender and prefetch directives to speed up rendering of new pages.
Mike King
A variety of ideas learnt over years of operation to help you optimize your own use of S3 for file storage.
Joshua Levy and Stefan Zier
A collection of articles that sought to provide a first step for developers hoping to ramp up fast on a range of web security points.
Martin Fowler, Cade Cairns and Daniel Somerfield
A look at how a company providing a Web page ‘heat map’ tracking service has scaled and the lessons learnt along the way.
Marc von Brockdorff
A perfect practical introduction to Docker for Web developers who’ve not yet used it in any capacity.
Daniel Demmel
‘Make your team’s deploys as boring as hell and stop stressing about it,’ says Zach Holman. Lots of great insights in this well presented guide.
Zach Holman
A reasonable, high level introduction to ‘serverless’ architecture if you haven’t investigated it so far.
Sam Kroonenburg
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Clay Smith
Matt Ranney
CloudFlare’s Marek Majkowski shows off how they deal with L3 attacks and IP spoofing.
Marek Majkowski
Jean De Klerk
Waldemar Quevedo Salinas
A roundup of a major attack which made numerous popular sites unavailable across the US earlier this year.
Mark Jeftovic
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'Quick UDP Internet Connections' is a new protocol for the web developed on top of UDP instead of TCP.
Mattias Geniar