Issue 98 — January 11, 2017
Covers things like choosing between and benchmarking different DNS providers and deliberately breaking DNS to measure impact.
Mark Henderson
A 40 minute talk that looks at how Facebook scales their load balancing infrastructure globally.
Patrick Shuff, Facebook
GitHub has heavily used Redis, the data structure server, as both a cache and for persistent storage. This post explains why they’re pulling back from the latter.
GitHub Engineering
Graph metrics from every component of your app. Set intelligent alerts. Share with your team.
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HTTP/2 Server Push and Service Workers could have a significantly positive impact on your site’s load times.
Dean Hume
How to build the bare bones of a static site generator with content authored by an admin user via a standard web form, with no database necessary.
John Polacek
Originally titled ‘How Removing Caching Improved Mobile Performance by 25%’, this demonstrates how caching isn’t a performance win in every instance.
Case Taintor
A simple easy to customize Bash script to generate a static status page. Displays status of websites, services (HTTP, SAP, MySQL…) and ping.
Nils Knieling
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In brief
Have gone from 200,000 to over 20 million active certificates in a year.
Let's Encrypt
The Register
Brian Wheeler
Develop apps faster. DreamFactory automatically turns any database into a REST API platform in minutes.
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htop Explained   tutorial 
A thorough guide to htop, an incredibly useful tool that lets you monitor processes on Linux.
Pēteris Ņikiforovs
Johannes 'fish' Ziemke
Slightly more predictable chaos engineering, or ‘chaos on demand’.
Mathias Lafeldt
Kaveh Mousavi Zamani
Using ‘play-with-docker’ to set up a Docker Swarm instance.
Nils De Moor
Alex Ellis
Powerupcloud
A look at the API Gateway Pattern and its place in the emerging world of microservices.
Glenn Goodrich
Adam Pahlevi Baihaqi
Joshua Bernstein
The first in a series of posts exploring best practices and stories around instrumentation.
Antoine Grondin
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A good centralized place to manage your Let’s Encrypt certificates, perhaps.
github.​com
Chris Lu
Jaime Pillora